OLHSEnglish

English Department at Our Lady's RC High School in Manchester.

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1912 - The year the play was SET.
1945- The year the play was PUBLISHED.

Know the difference! #AIC

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Miss Bramley’s Y9 class took part in #Take10ToRead with @AnthonyHorowitz this morning 📚 @Literacy_Trust

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@victoriasyates @JoMariaJones could be useful for ACC and AIC?

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These can be left at reception or if you have a younger sibling coming in for meetings with form tutors they can be returned that way. Thank you!

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📣IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR Y11!📣
If you have copies of English Literature texts at home, please return them to school asap. The texts that need returning are: A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet and An Inspector Calls.

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“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old” - pupils in school today prepared to celebrate VE Day, making bunting and reciting poetry 🇬🇧
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VE Day commemorates 75 years since the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany’s surrender in WW2 on Tuesday 8th May 1945🇬🇧

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A MUST WATCH FOR ALL YEARS!!!
👨‍🔬☠️🤖
Frankenstein is live on YouTube at 7pm (you can watch at a later time).
An exciting watch for the whole family so why not have a night at the theatre in your own home?
Copy the link: https://t.co/0BsdMnbUtn
#nationaltheatreathome

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People are turning to poetry like never before, so we asked some friends to read their favourite SH poem for us and we'll be sharing them over the coming weeks. First up, the mighty #AdrianDunbar reading 'Storm on the Island'. (For all you @Line_of_duty fans out there)

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David Walliams is providing children during this time with a free daily audio story at 11am. Here’s the link 😊 https://t.co/1SsEKvWnoe

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COMING SOON TO BBC iPLAYER!!
The RSC will be uploading R&J, Othello, Much Ado, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice to BBC iPlayer soon!
All year groups should watch ONE play over the next 12weeks.
We will update you once they have gone online and are available to watch 🎭

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1) If I was comparing MY LAST DUCHESS to LONDON:

- both poems show how inequalities in power always seem to victimise women. It is women who suffer in the transaction of power with men who want ownership over their bodies -- whether aristocracy or street prostitutes.

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@JoMariaJones Love this!!

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A Christmas Carol
BBC One
22nd, 23rd & 24th December
9.00pm
#ChristmasTV
https://t.co/kO82vILkOl

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So tomorrow is the day you have been waiting for.
We’ve all been there and we want you to know that we have been thinking of you since you first walked into our classrooms. Whether we taught you every year or had… https://t.co/1PjY3b03dx

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Today, Miss Bramley’s class made use of the new Forest school for their independent reading lesson #dropeverythingandread 🌲🌳🍁📚

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Last week Y9 went to visit @The_Lowry to watch a performance of Much Ado About Nothing as part of their KS3 enrichment🎭🎟

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Miss Winter’s Y8 class were the first in the English department to make use of our new Forest School for their reading lesson🌲🌳🍁📚#dropeverythingandread

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Wishing the Y11 boy’s football team the best of luck in the U16 Schools’ Cup Final⚽️🥇

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As part of #WorldBookDay Y7 have been participating in The Bumper Book Quiz📚📝👫

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Y7 have been busy visiting Manchester Central Library and exploring everything a library has to offer

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Last night Mrs Greaves, Miss Bramley and Mr Rutledge took a group of Y10s to Leeds to watch A Christmas Carol at the Playhouse Theatre🎭🎄