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What’s going on in English this week?
All the details you need in the presentation below…
The Apostrophes Megatest 2016
We’ll be contacting winners in the final week of term.
If you’d like to do some revision before starting the test, click here.
Saving Mrs Birling: our next English A Team session on 6th December!

It was great to see so many of you at Miss Marvin’s session on the ‘death’ of the author. You can find details of the next session above.
Don’t forget to sign up outside the English Staff Room – places are first come, first served.
It’ll be a useful session for those of you aiming for grades 7, 8 and 9 and revising for your pre-Christmas assessments. You might also want to download these for your iPods in advance!
Any questions? See Miss Marvin or Mr Shovlin!
What’s going on in English this week?
Upgrade your sentences! 1: ‘The boy looked dirty.’
Your English teacher is no doubt always asking you to ‘vary your sentences’ to help add a bit of flavour to your writing – and to improve your grades in the process.
Here’s the first of a series of posters designed to give you some useful techniques to try out.

Why not give them a go?
A Level English Language Conference in London
Fancy seeing Language doyen David Crystal in the flesh, A Level Language students?
Then sign up for our English Language trip!
All the details can be found in this letter, and you’ve not got long to get signed up!
You can find the full agenda here. It’s going to be, as Miss Marvin would say, ‘#totesamazelols’.
What’s Going On?
Have a look a below at what’s going on in English this week.
Protected: Year 11 Mock Exams: Examiners’ Report
What’s going on in English this week…
Splice up your life! (Well, don’t.)

As you all know, comma splicing is one of the greatest crimes committed by students in their writing.
You can read our blog post on it – and how to avoid it – here.
When you’ve done your revision, have a go at our cheeky little test. Any students who achieve 10/10 before the Friday 18th November deadline will be entered in to our prize draw. Exciting!

