Dear Parents, Are you looking to find your children’s next book to read? Look no further than the Book Trusts Book finder. https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookfinder/ You can search by age and genre. Pick as many themes as you want. Discover the very best children’s books: magical mystery, astonishing
Project Lockdown is a writing project to collect, compile and collate individual stories of the lockdown experience / phenomenon. The invitation is to write in any shape of form expressing your individual experience of lockdown. Stories, letters, diary entries, reflections, accounts, poems…. The intention is to
Enjoy quizzes with your family and friends? If so then check out Book Trusts Home Time for lots of brainteasers to test each other with… https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/quizzes/ Enjoy! The Purbeck School
Year 11 student, Helen Turnock, has been taking part in a regular script writing workshop as part of The Lighthouse Young Writers in Poole. Helen’s script, The Analogue Hall, was shortlisted as part of the BBC New Creatives scheme, beating over 280 applications, to develop her
Dear parents and guardians, We will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 6th March this year. There will be a number of activities running throughout the day celebrating and recognising the importance reading has to our students at the Purbeck School. For reasons that will
Our challenge club entered in a competition for young writers at the end of December. The task was to write a mini saga on the topic of “hunted”. This week we received a letter telling us that the following pupils have been chosen to be published
On Wednesday 11th of December, over eighty year 5 and 6 students visited The Purbeck School for an afternoon taster session in English. The students, and some keen parents, enjoyed participating in a creative writing competition where the students found themselves having to compete to write
This term our challenge club has been working on writing short 100 word sagas on the topic of Hunted. Pupils in year 7 and 8 have been busy writing their chilling stories and their entries have now been sent off to Young Writers. Good luck
Last Monday Year 11 students and parents attended the Year 11 information evening to find out more about the forthcoming mock and formal examinations. The powerpoint that was used by Mr Darley, Mr Morris, Mr Foyle, and Mr McNaughton is available here: Yr 11 GCSE information
Dear Parents, Summer is a great time for your child to engage in reading for enjoyment. Not only will your child discover the joy of being lost in a book, it is an opportunity to practice the many skills and strategies learnt during the year. Bookworms