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#NationalPoetryDay
At Deer Park students of our extra-curricular club, Writer's Den, have been working hard to put together a poem for National Poetry Day. This year's theme is refuge and we used this, as well as a picture stimulus to create our poem. @CDPStoday

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Whole Class Reading in Y7 today @CDPSEnglish @CDPStoday
Slow reveal of Chapter 1 ‘Ghost Boys’ - lots of juicy book talk oozing through the faculty. What has happened to Jerome? What are our puzzles and questions?

[Cirencester DeerPark @CDPStoday]

One of our Year 7 English classes has been enacting Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream today… interactive and fun... whoosh!

@CDPSenglish #Year7 #AMidsummerNightsDream #Shakespeare #Cirencester #DeerParkSchool #CirencesterDeerParkSchool

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To celebrate World Poetry Day, our English department have put up posters with Simon Armitage's poem 'Plum Tree Among the Skyscrapers'.

https://t.co/2I4zStoWk8

#WorldPoetryDay

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This term our Year 8s have been working on a Natural World Poetry unit. We have been looking at different poets such as Lord Tennyson, Ted Hughes, William Blake, Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop and more. Students have used these poems to creat their own nature poems #Poetry #Year8

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Year 8 Natural World Poetry

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Year 8 Natural World Poetry

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Year 8 Natural World Poetry

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Year 8 Natural World Poetry

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Year 8 Natural World Poetry

[Cirencester DeerPark @CDPStoday]

Congratulations to these young writers whose 100-word short stories have been chosen for publication by Young Writers in their 'Integer - Amazing Tales' anthology. Fantastic!

@YoungWritersCW #youngwriters @CDPSenglish #CirencesterDeerParkSchool #DeerParkSchool #EnglishFaculty

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This morning we welcomed Sabrina Pace-Humphreys, author and ultrarunner, to Deer Park to talk with our Year 8 and Year 9 pupils about race, identity, speaking out and running incredible distances. Have you read Black Sheep?

@sabrunsmiles #AuthorVisit #Inspiring #FindYourVoice

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On Thursday evening our English department took 50 Y8 pupils to see A Christmas Carol at the RSC in Stratford. The students and staff all thoroughly enjoyed the performance!!! @TheRSC #AChristmasCarol

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Our Writer’s Den pupils had a go at some blackout poetry last week. This was a fun task that got them thinking about vocabulary choices and being creative! @PoetrySociety #YoungPoets #BlackoutPoetry

[Cirencester DeerPark @CDPStoday]

Congratulations to our Year 8 Writers' Den pupils who entered The Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition earlier this year. Although not selected as winning entries, they did receive chocolate for their efforts from our English Faculty today!

#YoungPoets @PoetrySociety

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Year 11 working hard in an after school ‘Literature Lecture’ today ‘The Gothic , Duality and Degradation’ @CDPStoday

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Fantastic work being completed at home by Year 9. Some examples from Mrs Voss' 9A1. Well done!

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Year 7s have been thinking, planning and writing about Time Machines in English as part of a Science Fiction unit. This task is based on the short story 'A Sound of Thunder' by Ray Bradbury. Examples from Effie, Alfie & Will and Rui.

#Year7English #RemoteLearning @CDPSenglish