Summer Reading Challenge https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ this year we are partnering with The Reading Agency to deliver the Summer Reading Challenge the theme of which is ‘Ready, Set, Read!’ You can register now on the link above and the campaign goes live 23rd June. Families can take part
Full Time Permanent Contract NQT/Main Scale/UPS TLR 2.1 for the right candidate From September 2022 Teacher of English Information Booklet We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate English Teacher who wishes to be part of a successful, supportive team who are keen to implement innovative
This year, to celebrate World Book Day, we set the challenge for our students to design a new book spine. We had numerous entries of a very high quality but would like to congratulate the following prize winners on their design efforts. Many thanks to the
As many in our school community will remember, last autumn, a much-loved former student of Purbeck, Sophie Waylen, passed away during her first term at university. In addition to being an energetic, kind and wonderful role model to others, Sophie was an excellent student of English
We have been very privileged here at The Purbeck School to have received a wealth of quality entries for this year’s annual Poetry Prize. Inspired by National Poetry Day, the students composed imaginative and engaging pieces of writing presenting their own interpretations on the theme of
To mark World Poetry Day, students were asked to find their poetic voice and contribute a line in a whole school poetry collaboration. Each tutor group reflected upon which lines best captured how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted and affected their school lives. The result was
We are now pleased to be able to announce the winners of the World Book Day competition: Congratulations to… Flo Treves – Year 7 for her wonderfully thematic reading of ‘Watership Down’: Will Summers Year 9: for his (rather
Despite our obvious separation from each other at the moment, it was wonderful to see how the pupils at The Purbeck School pulled together to celebrate World Book Day. We received hundreds of photographs from students and there is little doubt that our students are highly
Congratulations to Daisy Pipe (8yBMN) whose short story entitled ‘Unsolved’ is going to be published in an anthology of stories by young writers! Well done Daisy!
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