What makes a book a classic?
A classic book is one that outlasts time….
…no matter when it was written, it will still have relevance today.
It will often teach us how to be better human beings, using language that is beautiful, effective and distinctive.
This year’s challenge is to travel around the world… in books! The advantage: a carbon footprint of zero and hundreds of hours of reading pleasure.
The Anglophone Section would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Lara in 3ème for being the very first student to complete this year’s Anglophone Reading Bingo.
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As temperatures are dropping, curling up with a good book seems to be the right thing to do. To further encourage reading, the Collège reading challenge has just been launched.
The 6emes have been busy this term: writing a character analysis, an autobiography from a character’s point of view and improving their SPaG! What a great start to college!
This term we’ve designed Top Trump cards for Anglo Saxon Gods, debated which monk was the most significant and acted like Vikings, to look at how the power of the Church changed in Britain through several invasions.
A suitcase has been found in Dover Castle! The 6emes are using all their history skills to try to find out who it belonged to. Continue reading
We did a range of activities based on the books of Roald Dahl to celebrate Dahl Day.
Over the last term, the 6eme pupils have been reading Boy by Roald Dahl. They have also looked at the features and structures of different types of poems. They were set the task of creating a poem that summarised Dahl’s character in the book and they did a tremendous job.