Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Sarah Polley Talks 'Stories We Tell'


Writer-director-actress Sarah Polley talks about her memoir "Stories We Tell," which explores her family mysteries.

Explore...

Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage

Editing Captain Fantastic

Under the Skin explained

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

House of Flying Daggers - flashcards

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers

DP/30 @ Sundance '13: Stories We Tell, storyteller Sarah Polley

Fallen Angels - Explained

New...

Summer 2026 Examinations

Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)

Artist in Residence for 2026

Our curriculum

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Head of Department Psychology & Sociology

Teacher of Mathematics

Parents Evening :: Year 9

Discover...

ZEN Polley GCE The Stories We Tell Documentary Film Studies Examinations Fallen Angels House Of Flying Daggers Test BFI Jobs NEA A Level Calendar Film Independent SOTD Hartismere Evening Vacancies Parent Aesthetics Week

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...