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I hope everyone is looking forward to our #MidsummerNightsDream adventure. Forms 4 and 5 have been working their thespian socks off this week to give you a real treat this afternoon!

#weareimaginative #wearemusical #wearedreamers #weareAshfold

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What's even lovelier is that all of Forms 1-6 have ERICS time simultaneously on Thursdays and Fridays, so we have the whole of the prep school reading at once! Now - how do we get all the teachers involved too??
Featured: Forms 2, 3 & 5
#wearetogether #weareAshfold @AshfoldSchool

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Our near-daily #ERICS (Everyone Reading In Class Silently) sessions are going down a storm - pupils enjoy the chance to settle down after break time, and teachers love that they get an extra 10-15 minutes #reading time nearly every day!
Featured: Forms 1, 4 & 6
#wearereaders

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And massive congratulations to our three winners of Juniors, Middles and Seniors - what a feat - and to the six runners up. What an achievement!

#weareachievers #weareAshfold

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Last week was our #SpellingBee week. Well done to all those children who competed - you all did amazingly! I was literally holding my breath for most of the final, it was so tense!

#spellbound #underpressure #wearecompetitive #wearesupportive #weareAshfold

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Fantastic start to our reading this term, with our daily Everyone Reading In Class Silently (ERICS) starting today, and some very happy Form 5s reading in the warm sunshine last week!
#erics #dear #wearereaders #weareAshfold

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We had an amazing week last week with dressing up (involving lots of research of famous scientists, real and fictional), book fairs, book swaps, DEAR time, science-literature links, and more!

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Thanks @SteveColeBooks for kicking off Book/Science Week on Monday with a brilliant visit, talking to the pupils about how space, technology, environmentalism and other science-y topics can be a great inspiration for stories!

#wearecreative #weareinspired #weareAshfold

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(And we love those #worldbookday costumes, too!)

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Form 5 adored reading with Pre-Prep 1 and 2 last week for #WorldBookDay and the little ones seem to have loved it just as much!

#iamareader #wearerolemodels #weareacommunity #weareAshfold @AshfoldSchool

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Form 4 get stuck in to writing their #tallstories after a lesson of sharing their half-true tales; their crazy hair (fundraising for @RNLI) only makes it more fun & bizarre, with exaggeration and embellishments galore!

#wearewriters #wearestorytellers #wearecrazy! #weareAshfold

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We’re loving #TudorWorld with Form 6 - where else can we both arm and lock up the children??

#crosscurricular #wearecurious #wearehistorical #weareAshfold

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Mrs MacIntosh's #BookLove selection:
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Thanks @one_to_read for the idea!

What do your #BookLove selections look like?

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A day late, but for #ValentinesDay2022, Miss Gye and Mrs MacIntosh joined #BookLove!
1) a book written for grown-ups that you love
2) a children's book you love
3) a book you'll always love
4) a recent book you've loved

We picked from the Ashfold library!

Miss Gye's
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In preparation for heading to Stratford on Thursday for the @TheRSC production of #MuchAdoAboutNothing, F6 have been considering how to show a character’s background, intentions, relationships and personality just through drawing.

#weareartists #weloveShakespeare #weareAshfold

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Watch our Form 6s transform!
Play rehearsal this afternoon containing some pretty serious character study for our upcoming #drama production.

#wearecreative #weareconvincing #wearetheatrical #weareAshfold @AshfoldSchool

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Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth: when 12-year-old Tash's parents are seized by soldiers, she and her best friend resolve to rescue them. But to do so, they must escape Tibet, cross the mountains and seek help from the Dalai Lama in India.

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Merry Christmas from Ashfold English! A final #Ashfoldrecommends for the holidays from Mr MacIntosh: Coram Boy (6.3; 18 pts) for our older readers and Running on the Roof of the World (4.1; 5 pts) for the younger. Happy reading!

#endofterm #wearemerry #wearereaders #weareashfold

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Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin: a saga of growing up, struggle, tradition and corruption in eighteenth-century London and Gloucester. Coram Boy spans the lives of several fortunate and less fortunate young people of the day.

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So gratifying seeing those (mostly ✅ green) spellings fly in, and such a timesaver!

@Socrative #satisfyingspelling #weareefficient #weareAshfold