Perse English & Drama

Tweets from the English & Drama Department of The Perse Upper School.

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Looking forward to opening night tonight! See original post for ticket information.

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Another impressive achievement in writing is by Xinyue (Jenny) Jiang (Y11), who has made it through to the longlist for the @NationalTheatre's ‘New Views’ play writing competition – following a year of mentoring by Mr Fordham on @ThePerseSchool's internal version of the scheme.

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It has been an exciting week for aspiring writers at @ThePerseSchool. Alice Kemp in the U6th has had a submission to the Wicked Young Writers’ Awards accepted onto the longlist for the competition. Only 20 out of 5000 original entries were accepted - well done, Alice!

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It will be an eye-opening night for our Y9 pupils, which has been organised by English teacher, Miss Fagan!

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Yesterday four of our Year 9 pupils competed in the @theESU Performing Shakespeare Competition Regional Final at @JHGSHW. It was a wonderful event, with very tough competition from all schools. Well done to Malachy Wallace for achieving runner-up for best performance.

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Finally, Robert Almqvist, Archie Bowman and Kilian Meissner (all L6th) competed in the regional final of the @RotaryGBI ‘Youth Speaks’ public speaking competition in Romford. They gave an excellent presentation, and represented the school superbly.

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Rizwaan Baig (Year 11) and Kirill Nezhentsev (L6th) competed in the world final of the Oxford Schools debating competition at the @OxfordUnion. They came 7th in the ‘Novice’ team category, after 1600 schools had originally entered across four continents. Many congratulations!

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Join us in celebrating the past weekend of debating. Firstly, Benedict Meissner (Year 9) and Ganesh Mullaparthi (Year 8) competed in the International Competition for Young Debaters at the @cambridgeunion. They came first in one of their three debates and third in another.

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Our fantastic poster designed by Mr Buchanan has been released to the public! Make sure you book your tickets to the Perse Players production of 'Chariots of Fire' (28-30 March) - it's going to be a sell out show! See the link below to book now: https://t.co/PuAiNCIW9T

[Penguin Classics @PenguinClassics]

May we know them. May we be them. May we read them. Happy #InternationalWomensDay

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Congratulations to Middle School Students Corbin Abbasi, Ben Lewis, Isabella Li-Yan-Hui and Toby Owers for being offered further opportunities at the National Youth Music Theatre. This is a wonderful achievement.

[Perse Library @PerseLibrary]

To celebrate #WorldBookDayUK the staff @ThePerseSchool shared their favourite books & what they are currently reading.
Remember to visit @PerseLibrary to collect your £1 book token 📚#ShareAStory

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A huge congratulations to our Senior Debating team (Rizwaan Bai (Y11) and Kirill Nezhentsev (L6)) who won the East regional final of the @ESUdebate ‘Mace’ debating competition earlier this week. Best of luck for the national final against the top 6 teams (out of 300) on March 25!

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Some of our Lower Sixth students enjoyed a lunchtime lecture on #VirginiaWoolf at @LucyCavColl

[The OED @OED]

A 'lexiphanes' is a person who uses bombastic phraseology.

[The OED @OED]

'Clue' originally meant a ball of thread. The modern meaning coming from its use to guide Theseus out of the labyrinth in Greek mythology.

[Bibliophilia @Libroantiguo]

Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot) one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, was born on this day in 1819

[Guardian Stage @guardianstage]

Geoffrey Rush on playing King Lear: 'What's to like? His parenting skills are appalling!' https://t.co/jmnUHCC6dW

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We're very excited about the opening night of Y13's production of Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce #BreakALeg

[Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart]

'At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.'
Laurence Binyon
https://t.co/YXITllX6Wg #ArmisticeDay