Sonia Y in Year 9 has won Key Stage 3 First Place in the Portico Sadie Massey Awards for her book review of To Kill a Mockingbird. Sonia’s entry was selected out of 205 entries,Continue reading
Category: English
Creative Writing Success – IMAGINE! and Unsolved
IMAGINE! Our students may have spent the spring term locked-down but their imagination roamed free. Several students submitted entries to the poetry competition ‘Imagine’ by responding to the challenge of writing thought provoking poetry. Yazhini,Continue reading
Grace’s and Freya’s winning stories
Grace G and Freya S, Year 10, have been selected as winners in the ‘Writing the Pandemic’ Competition run by the University of Manchester School of Creative Writing. This is a fantastic achievement, particularly given theContinue reading
Freya’s story is a finalist
Freya S, Year 10, has been selected as a finalist in the ‘Writing the Pandemic’ Competition run by the University of Manchester School of Creative Writing. She was picked out of several hundred entries and her work willContinue reading
Words of the Week – E
Year 7: Export- send (goods or services) to another country for sale. “nearly all the bananas produced were exported to Britain” Year 8: Evaluate- form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.”the study willContinue reading
Words of the Week – D
Year 7: derive– obtain something from (a specified source). “they derived great comfort from this assurance” Year 8: distinct– recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type. “the patterns of spoken languageContinue reading
Words of the week – C
Year 7: Constitute– be (a part) of a whole. “Lone parents constitute a great proportion of the poor” Year 8: Commission- an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group. “One of his first commissions was to redesign the GreatContinue reading
Words of the week – B
Year 7: Benefit– an advantage or profit gained from something. “enjoy the benefits of being a member” Year 8: Bias– inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to beContinue reading
Shakespeare lectures
Altrincham Girls Grammar School were very pleased to welcome Professor Alison Findlay on Thursday September 26th when she delivered two bespoke Shakespeare lectures to our year 12 and 13 A level literature classes. We alsoContinue reading
M for M trip
The year 12 English literature students had a highly successful trip to Stratford Upon Avon on Saturday 6th July, to see their set text Measure for Measure performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. We travelledContinue reading
English language lecture from the linguistics department at MMU
Rob Drummond and Erin Carrie from the linguistics department at MMU came to speak to the year 10s on 17th June in their English lesson, on studying linguistics at university. They then delivered a workshopContinue reading