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'Raw and gripping' Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
'A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America' John Green, author of The Fault in our Stars

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📚😍A recommended read from Dan T in 8R1 this week:
Why not try the best selling author Nic Stone's diptych, Dear Martin and its sequel Dear Justyce? Stone unflinchingly explores race and inequality and the impact of both on young black lives...

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It comes highly recommended from these other outstanding authors too:
"Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching! A must-read!' Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
‘​Painfully timely and deeply moving, this is the novel the next generation should be reading’ Jodi Picoult

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✒️📚Focus on Vocab: Word of the Week
Our attention this week is on the prefix 'dis', which means to be apart from, to reverse or to remove the root word.
Let's hope the England result today isn't DISappointing!⚽️⚽️⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁🦁🦁 Fingers crossed!

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The WOW for this week is the suffix -ology, added to a morpheme to mean 'the study /knowledge of'.
Anyone else old enough to remember this advert from 1988?😂
https://t.co/WZ2EJaPPuL

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✒️📚 Focus on Vocab: Word of the Week
Parent/carer of a child in Yrs 7-9?
You can support their learning by discussing the Word of the Week that s/he will encounter in LC sessions and English lessons.👇

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🙌🙌🙌Congratulations to our fabulous Year 10s who conducted themselves brilliantly in their Language Paper 1 assessment this week! Well done all!

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With the help of friends old and new, Cymbeline attempts to solve the mystery of why his mum never took him near water; it turns his whole life upside down…
By Adam Baron and recommended to Year 7s and above.

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📚👀Dylan in 8R1 recommends 'Boy Underwater'. In this moving story, our unusually named protagonist Cymbeline Igloo has never been swimming. When he determinedly sets off to learn, he’s not ready for the accident at the pool – or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown.

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The series follows Todd Hewitt, a 13-year-old boy who runs away from Prentisstown- a town where everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts- after learning of a secret about its past...
Why not give it a try?👍

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👀📚 Following our assembly this week about reading and encouraging empathy through reading, 8R1 made a list of recommended reads. First up is from Patrick Ness's young adult sci-fi series, Chaos Walking. It is entitled The Knife of Never Letting Go and is suggested by Felix.

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✒️👀Focus on Vocab: Word of the Week
Our word root this week is 'log' coming from the Greek 'logos', meaning 'thought' or 'word'. Can you name which famous play start with the proLOGue beginning "Two households, both alike in dignity.."? Here's a clue...

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✒️👀Focus on vocab: Word of the Week
Following our retrieval practice week, for the next seven days in LC time and English lessons, we will be focussing on CURR/CURS, from the Latin meaning 'to run'.
Do you know what "curricle" means? How does it connect meaning 'to run'?🤔

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👀📚Looking for recommendations of poetry collections? Jay Hulme's first selection of poignant work contains life-affirming poetry that makes no judgements; it inspires us to reflect upon our dreams, accept you differences and enjoy the best of what makes us human.

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Excitingly, research shows that books are a powerful tool to develop empathy. When young people identify with book characters, they learn to see things from others’ points of view. As they read, they are building their empathy skills. Perfect!

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Check out the secondary reading collection selected by @EmpathyLabUK 👇

https://t.co/iJVA7mSFNv

It features 20 books, from a wide variety of authors and genres, for 12-16 year olds. The books will help expand children’s world view and understand others better.

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Each collection comes with a free downloadable guide, giving information about the books, top tips, and explains what empathy is and how it works. Brilliant!

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This powerful, poignant and empathetic new book from Phil Earle is highly recommended for Yr 7+.
As the Second World War escalates and bombs start to fall, Joseph is charged with protecting Adonis the gorilla in this nerve-shreddingly tense thriller based on a true story.

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To the admiration of all, the goalkeeper deflected the ball, but it landed at the feet of the substitute player who unfortunately miskicked it into the crowd.

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✒️👀Focus on vocab: Word of the Week
This week our vocab sessions are focussed on retrieval practice. Can you spot some of the previous morphemes we've studied in the following sentence?👇