Wycliffe English

Eclectic tweets for students and teachers of English - and anyone else who shares our enthusiasms!

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

It's the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, once known as 'Catterns Day'. Catherine was a very popular saint, an emblem of female learning and patron of young women, librarians, students, and wheelwrights. Here she is with her wheel in medieval glass from Christ Church, Oxford.

[Wycliffe English @WycliffeEnglish]

This is a ‘must listen’ series - still plenty of time even if you missed the official start.

[Jo Dyer @instanterudite]

Get on it, people! It's a thrilling, chilling tale told by some of the best in the business.

#TheDarkIsRising

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

QOTD: What's the best book you've read this year, and why?

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

Today is the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere 🌗

Stonehenge was carefully designed to align with the solstice, marking the extreme limits of the sun’s movements. https://t.co/hNW8jBslAt

[Wycliffe English @WycliffeEnglish]

‘Little Women’ - a classic ‘comfort read’ at Christmas…

[Simon Knott @TheSimonKnott]

'Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire...'

Ramsholt, Suffolk in midwinter sunshine, the temperature minus 3 at the start of January, 2017.

[Fintry Trust @FintryTrust]

I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.

'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.

- Oliver Herford #solstice #Advent

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

Today's Christmas gift - this excellent piece on managing the edu fads from @mikehobbiss

[50 years of The Dark is Rising @TDiRReadathon]

Whether snow is piling higher in your region or the darkness has been rising around you this season, may the hope that this story brings and the light that Christmas time can provide will bring you comfort and joy this week.

Thanks for joining us on this annual journey. Enjoy!

[Wycliffe English @WycliffeEnglish]

As if it wasn’t enough that the final series of @PhilipPullman’s wonderful ‘His Dark Materials’ is now available, we have this!

[50 years of The Dark is Rising @TDiRReadathon]

Although already reached by our friends on the other side of the globe, Midwinter's Eve has just commenced in my time zone. I wish you all happy reading and/or listening if you are following along via audiobook or the BBC's new adaptation: (https://t.co/wtDjpk09Am).

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

This Sunday, join storytellers Anthony Nanson and Kirsty Hartsiotis as they narrate enchanting stories of Gloucestershire Folk Tales. 🧚🐉📚 Afterwards we'll serve hot drinks and mince pies - what better way to spend a cosy December Sunday afternoon? ☕️

https://t.co/dnF7qvPVN2

[Georgina Sayer (also on Bluesky) @GeorginaNoakes]

How the frost makes the ordinary extraordinary. Even nettles get the diamond treatment.

[CollingwoodHouse @CollHouseWyc]

Quite the metaphor as we closed up House for the term. Happy Xmas, see you back in Collingwood in January.

[Guardian Education @GuardianEdu]

‘I thoroughly enjoyed it’: man sits GCSE maths exam at 92 https://t.co/PBfCCAj7GP

[SVDunne @SVDunne]

What an amazing experience. Well done @WycliffeEnglish for making this happen.

[Christian San José @WycliffeHead]

It doesn't get much better than this! Y12 @WycliffeCollege English Literature pupils on Skirrid Fawr with @owensheers himself to talk about his poem (of the same name as the place) from his Skirrid Hill collection. What a day for it ! Hard to think of a better 'classroom' ...

[Wycliffe English @WycliffeEnglish]

An unforgettable day for our Y12 English Literature A Level students who walked up Skirrid Hill this morning with the actual ⁦@owensheers⁩ and were able to listen to him reading and talk about the poems on the way.

[Wycliffe English @WycliffeEnglish]

Good Luck to all our Year 11s sitting their first English Literature GCSE this morning! You’ve worked so hard and now it’s your time to shine!

[Wycliffe College Library @WycliffeLibrary]

From the May issue of Scientific American which you can read online via the QR code on the display in the library. May is great month to listen to the #dawnchorus #rspb