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Head of English tweeting about highlights from the department at Portland Place School!

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Welcome back everyone and happy Halloween! 🎃 🦇

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Happy half term everyone! You’ve all worked so hard and deserve a break - happy reading, revising and relaxing! 🍂 🎃 📚

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Lily and Catherine are hard at work - they have an assessment tomorrow before half term! 💪 ✍️

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Starting to look rather spooky here in PPS ahead of #hauntedhouse this evening!🦇 🎃

[World Book Day UK 📚 @WorldBookDayUK]

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚

Did you know that reading for just 10 minutes a day is a great way to improve wellbeing? Take a look at our ‘Looking After Yourself’ reading list for some brilliant mood-boosting book recommendations: https://t.co/wxlGWHW1NR

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Passionate debates today in Year 11 English Language - just what we like to see! #literacy 🗣👂

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Congratulations to Clara in Year 6 for winning our competition with this beautiful poem and call to action #NationalPoetryDay 🍃

[National Poetry Day @PoetryDayUK]

As we celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, new research from @Literacy_Trust reveals that poetry helps young people learn new words (67.7%) & learn about new things (65.8%)

Proof that poetry is a brilliant tool to help nurture young minds!

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Happy #NationalPoetryDay!

[National Poetry Day @PoetryDayUK]

It's #NationalPoetryDay! ��

A day to enjoy and share poetry with family and friends. Tell us what you're doing to celebrate & remember to tag us into your posts and use #NationalPoetryDay

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We’ve been having so much fun in our #Blackhistorymonth2022 lessons! Yesterday Year 7 learnt about #ninasimone and #tracychapman in their English lesson. Then they researched other Black female artists and shared their findings with the class!

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October is #Blackhistorymonth2022!
Keep an eye out for some special goings on in your English lessons and the competition we are running! Also check out @PPSLibrary for some brilliant reads!

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Congratulations to Stan and Nicky whose combined logo design is donning the PPS Paris hoodies ahead of their trip in half term! 🇫🇷 @ThomasLalandePP

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Happy birthday Lawton! 16 today and working as hard as ever on Language Paper 1 skills 🥳

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Postcards home for some wonderful pupils to congratulate them on a wonderful first week 💌

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So lovely to meet our new Year 7 pupils today and play this fantastic creative writing game with them! 🎲

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Congratulations to all of our brilliant GCSE English students on their results - we are very proud of you! 🎉

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Now that the winners have been announced and the dust has settled come and check out our new display in @PPSLibrary and read some student reviews! @CILIPCKG 📚 👓

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Happy Friday! It’s all about Dragon’s Den this afternoon with Year 8 competing to come up with the best product whilst using AFOREST techniques! 🐉 🌳

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Lemonade during break on this extra hot day! Thanks @ThomasLalandePP ! 🍋 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋

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What an exciting day of announcements! Our group really enjoyed this beautiful, empathetic read 🍂

[The Carnegies @CarnegieMedals]

And the 2022 Yoto Carnegie Medal goes to October, October! Congratulations @katyabalen @KidsBloomsbury! #CKG22