GIS English Faculty

The official page of the Garden International School Secondary English Faculty. We aim to inspire a love of language, literature and learning in our students.

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Year 8 is exploring changing trends. Using Flip https://t.co/RZGzhPR1aO the students were able to share their protest poems, celebrate individual success and offer critical commentary. Great work 8K @ BerryKhella

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Yr 7 students are starting a non- fiction unit focussing on Mythical Creatures:
beginning with a mapping activity to check our prior knowledge, building on awareness from our home countries and appreciating the universal nature of mythical creatures and stories. #GISlearning

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Year 7 - what a great community event to link to your study of drama- fairytales.

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Students need to read in a variety of ways.

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Year 9 actively working with story teller Mara Menzies @marastoryteller during Book Week. Lesson learned- be careful what “bones” you throw out! #gislearning #ActiveLearning

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Very interactive!

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What a lovely Book Week experience. Mara Menzies links Yr 7 genre studies and conventions of fairytales. #interculturalism

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Dear students- make sure you get into the Library @GIS_SEC_LIBRARY this week for Book Week. The librarians have done an amazing job setting up activities for you! #BookWeek #gislearning

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Year 7 English with @BerryKhella developing annotations: pre-reading, teacher modelling, working on paper, sharing with the class- all engaged and contributing.

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Congratulations to Avani and Yeri our KS4 and KS3 winners of the English Short Story competition. Their work has been sent off to the FOBISIA competition, to represent GIS. All the best! #gislearning

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Year 10 students start studying prose- a novel this week. Today students studying To Kill A Mockingbird immersed themselves in a walk through Maycomb to better understand 1930s small town life in the American South. #GisLearning

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Year 7: we picked up books for the holiday and got a head start on our holiday reading today.

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Year 7 with @BerryKhella reviewing characters in order to write diary entries. #GISLearning

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Year 7 - everyone taking a turn to speak in our drama unit- interviewing Little Red Riding hood and/ or the wolf.

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Students have created avatars to move through different spaces to develop descriptive pieces.#interdisciplinary # TheBigDraw

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@BerryKhella Starting today with creativity, conversation and collaboration- writing modern fairytales to smash stereotypes and challenge conventions.

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Yr 7: Last week before midterm break- keeping the energy up by racing to list the most fairytales and to explore and report on what we know about this conventions of this genre.#GISlearning #active-learning

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Supporting ARTober @Art_Gis in Yr 7 English with @BerryKhella - creating fantasy settings to complete our study of genre. #GISlearning

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Recognising achievement in Year 10- sharing beautiful visual plans to highlight “well-defined ideas” with “varieties of focus” for descriptive writing. @BerryKhella Looking forward to read drafts later this week.#GISLearning