BVGA English & Drama

We had the amazing @Sharenaleesatti come in to talk to our Year 8s about National Poetry Week, what poetry is and who can be a poet. Everyone created the most beautiful poetry about themselves and their own identities! Some even shared their poems with their whole year group!

Mariyah in Year 8 has written a wonderful poem about the changing of the seasons and the approach of autumn! #BVGAExcellence

It was so lovely to meet all of our students coming into Year 7 in September this transition day. We had a great time making some food related poetry! The poems were amazing!

Congratulations to all our Year 11s who have just finished their final English exam. We’re so proud of you and look forward to seeing where you go from here! Thank you so much for your generous (and humorous) gifts! #BVGAExcellence

Best of luck to our Year 11 students sitting their English Literature Paper 2 today. You've got this! #confidentlearners

If you love poetry @n_ehmed, an amazing poet herself, is running a Bradford Writes session at City Library on Saturday 27th April! Find the information below…

Well done to Jasmin in Miss Nelson's Year 7 English class who has taken the initiative and completed some very good independent learning this half term #BVGAexcellence #confidentlearners

Many of our Y7 students studied and wrote a letter responding to the cutting down of the Sycamore Gap tree in September last year. There is now an update about how conservation (one of our key words!) techniques are being used to bring the tree back! bbc.co.uk/newsround/68521235

Thank you so much to the @TheRSC First Encounters team for their amazing performances of Romeo and Juliet this week! Our girls absolutely loved experiencing Shakespeare live and the young performers were incredible! #firstencounters #confidentcommunicators

Our Year 7 students really enjoyed hearing from #SiobhanMcDermott on her novel #PaperDragons. So many of them are excited to read it after hearing about Siobhan's life in Hong Kong and life as an author! It fit perfectly with our focus on fairy tales and fables! @Waterstones

It was incredible to have assistant professor Elly McCausland from Ghent University in Belgium talking about Taylor Swift and Literature to our Year 13 English Literature students. Such an interesting and eye-opening topic! #swifterature #confidentlearners swifterature.com/

Look at this amazing set design Henna in Year 12 created for the English Literature A-Level drama text 'A Streetcar Named Desire'! #confidentlearner

Everyone has done so well this term and it is clear from the reviews of our learning that we have done just how much everyone has learned over the last few weeks. Here is an example from Miss Nelson and Ms Kauser's Year 8 class! #confidentlearners

A big well done to Mariyah in Mrs Hill's English class. Mariyah took the initiative to enter the BBC 500 word story competition (see her story below). Fingers crossed for the results! #ConfidentLearner #ConfidentFutureCitizen

Mrs Cole's Year 7's have been enjoying  'Fireside Friday!' They put the fire on and enjoy reading their class novel or sharing their creative work. #ConfidentLearners #ConfidentCommunicators

Miss Nelson’s Year 11’s showing how they are Confident Learners by sharing their annotations for Twelfth Night under the visualiser with the rest of their class #ConfidentLearners