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We were lucky to have the incredible Ryan Sutcliffe join us again this year. The boys gained invaluable insights on becoming a published author and making the most of English from his expertise. Thanks, Ryan, for the unforgettable experience!

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We are getting creative with our displays this year!
Any guesses as to what it may be?

HINT: ⚔️❤️🧪💒🤫

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Year 7 have been creating dystopian settings during their English lessons. After they had finished, we put their writing into an AI generator that produced their worlds! 🌃

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Congratulations to our winners! Your presents will be arriving during your English lesson this week. 📚🎁

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Our Year 9s are finishing reading When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler. Read some of their reviews here! 📚⭐️

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Miss Keate’s 10y2 class have been roadmapping Scrooge’s journey that The Ghost of Christmas Present takes him along which will lead them to answering the question “What is Scrooge intended to learn from the Ghost of Christmas present?”

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We were very lucky on Wednesday and Thursday to have parts of @TodBookFest come into school, with a masterclass in writing from @MelvinBurgess and a live performance from @TheBookshopBand!

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@TheBookshopBand Our students are very excited to see you play!

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7y3 have been working exceptionally hard in reading and comprehending Boy,Everywhere by A.M Dassu

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This week Year 8 have been critically thinking about the impact of literature, and the impressions they make on us. Here are some reviews of their current read, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill!

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In our previous post, we highlighted the X groups winners from our gothic poetry competition, here are the winners from Y groups:

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This half term, Year 8 have been looking at gothic novels and gothic poetry inspired by Walter de la Mere and Christina Rossetti. Each class wrote narrative poems and performed them to the class, resulting in 1 winner! Well done to the winning students!
The winners from X Groups:

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Cold weather not your thing? Curl up with some of our October half term book recommendations. 🎃🍁🍂👻
#TodHighEnglish #English #bookspotlight

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Fantastic opening evening at @TodmordenHigh for English! I’m very proud to be apart of such a great team.
And a special shoutout to @todhip for lending us the costumes! Thank you so much x📚

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The English Department is ready for Open Evening! Come and taste Scrooge’s gruel 🥣

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@ace_national @TodmordenHigh @Colourchord1
Our ACE funded Colourchord project has been a marvellous opportunity for our pupils to experience the raw power of traditional song from some of the very finest: our visiting artists @AliceJonesMusic, @MHussnainHanif @boden_jon

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A book in a day for World Book Day 👏🏻

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For World Book Day we unveiled our new rewards book vending machine and two new students received books for being super stars. All students and staff in school read Lark by Anthony McGowan - a book in a day! #WorldBookDay

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Shining representatives of ⁦@TodmordenHigh⁩ #arch

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From Macbeth in Christmas jumpers to Claret Santa on ice. The most wonderful time to be a teacher.

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Wonderful selection of books for form reading next half term 👍🏻