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!
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