Summer Reading Challenge
Over the summer holiday we will be asking students (and staff) to send in photographs of themselves reading books in weird and wonderful places. The more obscure the better.
If you find yourself reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on a visit to Cadbury World, Messi at the Charity Shield match or Billie Eilish – From E-Girl to Icon at a music gig simply take a selfie and send it to Mrs Gibson in the Library jgibson@birchwoodhigh.org.uk.
The best photo as chosen by a panel of independent judges will win a bag of goodies including a £10 Waterstones voucher.
BB is pictured reading his favourite book ‘A Boy and a Bear in a Boat’ by Dave Shelton, whilst on holiday at Birchwood High School.
Mrs Gibson, Library Resource Manager
Read, Review, Reward competition
Congratulations to Molly-Sue Wedgbrow from Year 10 who was the lucky winner of last half term’s ‘Read, Review, Reward’ competition. Molly read and
reviewed a selection of books from the reading list – one of her favourites was ‘Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me’ by Mariko Tamaki which she rated 4 out of 5.
Mrs Gibson, Library Resource Manager
Read, Review, Reward Competition
The English Faculty are launching a reading competition!
Read as many books from the reading lists as you can.
Win 10 points for every book that you read!
To enter, submit your review to Miss Lava in D7
OR
email it to dmiguellava@birchwoodhigh.org.uk
At the end of every half term the students who have completed the most reading will be rewarded 100 house points!
An Inspector Calls
The Year 11’s were treated to a production of An Inspector Calls to help with their revision.
The Globe Players production company performed the play, stopping every so often to explain parts and give ideas to the Year 11’s, in the hope it would be a useful revision tool for the upcoming English Literature mock in February.
The English department thought by seeing the play acted out would help the Year 11’s with the “Response” part of their essay.
It was a useful experience, and both the Year 11’s and English department would like to thank the Globe Players for coming along and giving the students a chance to see the play in full.
The Year 11’s would also like to thank the English department for organising the event.
Niamh Payne and Emily Robson, BBC Reporters
Year 11 Globe Trip
Year 11 visited the Globe Theatre in London to enhance their knowledge of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, which they are studying in class.
The day started off with a tour of the Globe, giving them key contextual knowledge to aid the students with forming top-level English responses. The students were then led off to various workshops. The aim was to enhance their knowledge of particular scenes, help them to form their own interpretations based on the themes and techniques used within the scene and also with the understanding of relationships between characters through role play and acting, such as Lord Capulet and Juliet.