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The official, personal website of Alexander Gordon Smith, author of The INVENTORS, ESCAPE FROM FURNACE, The FURY and The DEVIL'S ENGINE

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What is an Inciting incident?

The Wave: the first autocracy lesson, part 1 (clip 2 of 9)

Literary Devices - Literary Terms, Techniques, and Elements

Year 7 Childhood and Adventure - Week 3: reasons why reading is important

'London' analysis

Year 7 English poems

Remains by Simon Armitage - Revision 1 - GCSE English Literature - BBC Bitesize

Design and Technology: Literacy

BFI Academy Labs

Attack the Block revision 2

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Teacher of Science (possibility to combine with a head of year post)

Teacher of History (possibility to combine with a head of year role)

What happens to your examination script?

Teacher of Science

Local Governing Body Information

BACK TO THE FUTURE, the musical. Thursday 5th June 2025. Years 7 to 10.

Teacher of Mathematics (with specific year group responsibilities for key stage 5)

Teacher of Mathematics (possibility to combine with a head of year post)

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Just For Fun ZEN English Key Stage 3 Year 8 Test Silent Film Statutory Information Reading Hitchcock GCSE Options Vertigo Film Studies Filmtrailers Year 10 Narrative Poetry Coursework NEA C#

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