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Classic Literature Reading Challege

Read a classic over the holidays.

 

1)     Improve your vocabulary

2)     Increase your knowledge

3)     Read something of value

4)     Understand history and cultural context

5)     Enrich your own life

6)     Challenge your brain

7)     Knowledge is power

8)     Share in the human experience

Documents

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Alexander Gordon Smith

Year 9 Poetry research

William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act 1 Scene 1: Translation (1 of 60)

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Frankenstein

48 Hour Scares

Call You & Yours: What Inspired You to Read?, You and Yours - BBC Radio 4

A Level English Literature: A Glossary of Technical Terms poetry

Year 7 English poems

'London' analysis

Book recommendations Year 8

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Summer 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Teacher of Mathematics

Vacancies

School Policies

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Little Elephant (Jessop)

Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)

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English Literature English Challenge Literature Reading Year 8 Heaney Week Mathematics Just For Fun Drama Parent Information Alamanc Competition Poetry YouTube Sixth Form BBC Bitesize Jobs Film Studies ZEN

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