English | Shiplake College

English at @ShiplakeCollege, an 'excellent' independent day and boarding school for boys aged 11-18 and girls aged 16-18.

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Actually it’s cakes and ale..

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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more ... which play? Which character ? #seasonalShakespeare

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Here’s some of our year 7 and 9 top Christmas reading recommendations:
1. Mortal Engines , P. Reeve. 2.The Odin Mission, J. Holland . 3. The Boy Who Lied, K . Slater.
Happy holiday reading . It’s better than screens!

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J15 VIIIs duelling at sunset past the College . This is the way a week should end as a teacher . #proud #rowing . What a job. What a life . I’ll miss it one day .

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#sainsburysadvert vs Alice Walker Poem at Thirty Nine . Lesson plan for y10. What’s the link ..?

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Y10 explore newspaper articles : bias, headlines , metaphors , use of emotive language, facts stats .. and learned SO much more about the world . Sir, who’s Keir Starmer? Who’s Panusaya Sithijari-wattanakul?

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Year 10 need to learn about #newsoapers .. so here we go with an investigation board .. see what it’s like at the end of the lesson .

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It would appear I have a new colleague today 🐈

[Claire Alcock @parttimepriest]

This time last year it was the eve of my Installation/Induction (etc) service at St John & St Stephen’s, Reading. I thought I’d love being vicar of this church and it’s been absolutely the case, Covid-19 notwithstanding. #thankyou

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It’s #nationalpoetryday2020 ! Read, perform, and write poems . Here’s a cool one:
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF,
HAS TO.
NO ONE LISTENS. Steve Turner

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What books are lined up for you this Easter? Try to keep screen time down and lurk in a quiet place with a story which will take you to another dimension . I seem to be in southern England in 1908 #reading

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Bear Grylls is ‘teaching’ year 9 today about why it’s a bad idea to cross a muddy harbour when your friend dares you to. Thanks @BearGrylls for such an entertaining passage from ‘Mud, Sweat and Tears. ‘

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Created a quiz on Blake’s The Tyger. Inspiration is low as one of the options on the multi choice questions was: grr. Hope they understand trochaic tetrameter. ‘iPad iPad shining bright, in my darkened room at night, what unlikely truth or lie, could frame thy crazy screenery!

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What a wonderfully uplifting whole school assembly this morning @ShiplakeCollege , ending with the school’s favourite Bless The Lord O My Soul (10,000 Reasons). We’re a few tears shed? Did voices quaver. Possibly . One of my #3goodthings today.

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@ShiplakeEnglish have loved the challenges of distance learning to various year groups. But at the heart of all this are Edgar’s immortal words at the end of King Lear: ‘The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say’.

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Steve Turner’s 1982 collection of poems - Up To Date has gems like this, bright as light ; sharp as a razor . Try this style out for yourself .. #creative

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Write a brief story based on this image .. #writingchallenge . #BB #wildlone

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#BB is best known for his novel #BrendonChase, as y9 know . But he was a poet too. In his 1939 novel #WildLone -about a fox , each chapter is started with a short verse on the beauty of the world of nature - but spot the train too!

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#dailypoem. Year 11 study Prayer Before Birth. Here he explores how a reflection can reveal your inner state of being as he stares at the window of a carriage in a train .