Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The Gr. 9 class began reading William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy,A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s always fun to let out a few hither, doth and hences. This text will be one of two options for Paper 5 of the IGCSE English Literature exams.

First Further Oral Activity

Gr. 11 students presented their first Further Oral Activity in Language & Literature this week. Students collected and analysed clips exemplifying how language is used to distinguish racial, social and class groups.

Boys and Boarding School

This week the Gr. 9 students made connections between two films watched in class, Dead Poets Society and Les Choristes. Both movies are about boys in boarding schools during the late 1950’s and touch on the timeless themes of friendship, loyalty and...

Scary in other words

The Gr. 7 and Gr. 10 students have both started off the year with genres designed to creep out readers. The senior students are focusing on classic Gothic literature while the junior group is exploring suspense in various short stories. This week there was a focus on...