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English In the English Department we strive to communicate a deep love of the written word to our students. With this purpose firmly in mind, we look at a variety of literature and consider how a writer communicates his or her passion to the reader. Through a number of activities we aim to help pupils discover their own voice, encouraging girls to articulate their thoughts both orally and on paper. This can take the form of a creative response through story telling, for example, and it can also include formal analysis of a text. Through public speaking, a number of pupils have discovered the ability to express an opinion verbally in front of a sizeable audience helping to develop their confidence. Year 7: We undertake different kinds of writing, for example, descriptive and informative writing. As a class, we study a novel, we also read and discuss poetry as well as looking at different types of fiction. Year 8: Building on work undertaken in Year 7, pupils look at writing different kinds of letter writing. They also continue with speaking and listening work and study non-literary genres, for example, marketing leaflets. Poetry is again studied and different genres of fiction are explored. Year 9: Pupils examine how suspense is created; they also look at newspapers and travel writing producing written work in each of these genre. A Shakespeare text is studied together with a number of short stories.
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On Monday 2nd February at 6pm at the Area Final, both teams acquitted themselves admirably. |
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World Book day fever swept St Margaret’s not just on Thursday, but for the whole week as departments and form groups competed to see who could take a picture of themselves reading in the most unusual place.
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Thank you to all of you who voted for me this year in the Devon Youth Parliament election held in school a few weeks ago. I was very fortunate to be elected to the position of Deputy Member for the Exeter area. This means that I can continue my work on improving public transport and the image of young people in Devon
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As we entered the Royal Opera House we were astonished at how beautiful it was. Everything was perfectly carved and embroided in the Royal Colours, Gold and Red
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