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News, updates, and information from the English department at Oasis Academy Mayfield in Southampton.

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Our second competition for 📚World Book Day📚 is...

Competition #2 - Creative Writing and Performance
1. Choose your book character
2. Write a piece of creative writing - ideas below
3. Film yourself performing your creative writing piece or send your work to Miss Puddy!

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It's time for @PiXLclub Summer Reading Newsletter which has an awesome range of book recommendations, activities and links to free online resources.
Access using the links below👇

KS3/4 - https://t.co/zbRR66U2JY
Year 6 - https://t.co/8DuexSaXFR

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Frankie, Year 9, elegantly explores Shakespeare’s use of foreshadowing in Act 3 Scene 5! Miss Nicholson is incredibly impressed with her lucid analysis of the juxtaposition between hope and tragedy.

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Pathos in Act 2, Scene 2 of 'The Tempest' by Jono in 8R. 👇⭐️

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Well done MELISSA for winning the Book Character Creative Writing Competition for WBD 2021 with your Lord Capulet Diary Entry.

Thank you to everyone who got involved; the entries were original and creative; we loved reading each and every one.

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Well done ELLA for winning the Book Character Costume/ Potato Costume Competition for WBD 2021!

Thank you to everyone who entered- all of the costumes were fantastic and we loved seeing them!

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WBD competition winners announced at 15:00 here today! If you are a winner, you will get an email too.

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Did you watch 'Harry Potter: A History of Magic' yesterday evening? Museum curators at The British Library plan and prepare for a 'Harry Potter' exhibition and all things magic.

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1 hour and 10 minutes to get your World Book Day 2021 competition entries submitted. Costume Competition, (be it a costumed person or a costumed potato), and Creative Writing Competition winners announced here and on the School Social Wall at 15:00 tomorrow, (Friday 5th)!

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes - eat your heart out. Nicole's Romeo and Juliet are forever young and beautiful and in love.

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Hope's 'Mary Poppins' London scene is making us want to read and watch 'Mary Poppins' again even more. Blanket, tea and a spoon full of sugar.

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Miss Evans is all set up for World Book Day 2021.

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Lilly's Hermionie Granger writes about the Forest of Dean with love and nostalgia...

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World Book Day and Valentine's Day combined! Annie-Mae's description of love with a literary twist is so romantic...

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Sophie has characterised Sophie from the BFG in this fantastic diary entry:

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Melissa's fantastic take on the relationship between Lord Capulet and his daughter from Lord Capulet's perspective:

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Grace (Y7) has used her computer skills to draw her book character potato!

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'Brave in ribbons'

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'Avada kedavra'

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Take a look at these book character creations...!!!