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A huge thank you to Dr Abigail Shinn from Goldsmiths university, for delivering a fantastic lecture on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to our Year 11 students today.
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A jam packed day 2 visiting the Sachsenhausen Memorial, the Topography of Terror, Checkpoint Charlie and the East Side Gallery #WeAreNewstead
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Final day in Berlin for our @NewsteadWood GCSE historians. Enjoying the weather with a walk into the city followed by a tour of the @ddrmuseum 🇩🇪 Auf wiedersehen for now! #WeAreNewstead
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8. Finally, a poem from the 1930s - just because I love it Wolves by Louis Macniece (1935) Possible comparison: History by John Burnside. Not really for a particular exam style question but to contrast the poets’ big ideas.
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7. Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith (2014) is 🔥 The art reference here is Hollywood movies, specifically Jurassic Park. Again just the opening below:
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6. Aubade with burning city by Ocean Vuong (2014) The art reference is to the song: White Christmas Ekphrastic poem to pair with Ode to a Grayson Perry urn. This poem and 7. imo take the idea of an ekphrastic poem to a completely new, intense level. 🤯 The poem opens:
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5. Eyewitness Travel or Self portrait in front of a small mirror by Will Harris (2017) (Also, the poem Estruch references Say by Will Harris is phenomenal: poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/p…) Possible comparison Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled - place/identity
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4. Say by Sarala Estruch (2021) Father/daughter, memory. Also a ghazal: brilliant poetic couplet form. Possible comparison (you may disagree) with Out of the Bag. (Also check out two more of her fantastic poems here: Gorge and Origins of a modern rose amberflora.com/issues/issue-…)
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3. the drone by Clint Smith (2018) Thought-provoking poem (and just brilliant use of form). I’ve shared this before as a modern war/ conflict poem. Possible comparison: The Gun by Vicki Feaver Morality/tools of death
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2. Salmon by Gabrielle Bates (2023) She calls this a pre-elegy and it’s just gorgeous. Parent/child so could be compared with quite a few from POTD - perhaps Material by Ros Barber?
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1. Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (2022) Such a beautiful poem. Possible comparison: An Easy Passage by Julia Copus The unknown/connection/small moments theguardian.com/books/booksb…
Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Moving elusively between private and public worlds, the poet finds grace in small, shared moments

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🧵 8 fabulous poems for #Alevel unseen practice. All contemporary poets (except last one), published within last 10 years. I teach #Edexcel so it’s a) poems to compare with the Poems of the Decade collection and b) more broadly to widen their poetry reading. @Team_English1
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😂 What's Shakespeare's funniest line? We'll go first... I do desire we may be better strangers. #AsYouLikeIt
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Year 10 and 11 students got into the ‘spirit’ of things watching ‘An Inspector Calls’ at the Churchill theatre in Bromley on Tuesday evening. Thank you to Miss Kate Brazier the organiser!
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So wonderful to welcome some of our #ClassOf2022 Oxford and Cambridge students in today to speak to our Year 12s about the #Oxbridge experience! Thank you Yasmin, Jemima, Annys, Anna, Eden, Caitlin, Sucharita, Margaret and Adhithy! #WeAreNewstead 💚💚💚
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Well done to Arunima who represented Newstead at the Regional finals of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge. A big thank you goes out to Mrs Samantha Cater who guided and supported her.
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Raha from 9G received her prize for Public Speaking from Mrs McCormack.
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Public Speaking Competition 2023. Antara from 7 P received her prize from Mrs McCormack.
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The Newstead English department Public Speaking Competition organised by Miss Cottle today was a great success.
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World Book Day yesterday! The whole class joined the celebration! Well done, 10G.
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