Here you will find all the resources and notes for your lessons.  I will be updating the page constantly so do check back regularly.  Hopefully a forum will be available before the end of term.

 

 

 

 

 

SPELLINGS

Spellings KS3 (click me!)

This is the list I use for spelling tests.  You will be tested regularly throughout the year!

Mid-Year Spellings (doc)

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MEDIA PROJECT

         Logo Quiz (xls)

POETRY UNIT

All the resources for the poetry unit, plus some extra bits, will be here.  Not all of the poems below will be studied in Year 7 but you are very welcome to browse all the resources.

Links to poems are also here; as some may be copyrighted please contact me if you would like to discuss removal. 

STUDENT FAVOURITE POEMS

Students researched a poem they liked and discussed it in class.  Here is a list of the poems they selected.

On The Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan - chosen by Max Clarke, Henry Kennedy and Ruben Cleary

Echo by Christina Rossetti - chosen by Callum Whittingham

When We Two Are Parted by Lord Byron - chosen by Umut Avnioglu

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth - chosen by Joshua Dalsan, Alex Sharman and Jack Bennett

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye - chosen by Charles Hassett

How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll - chosen by Reece Turner-Jones

Goodnight, Goodnight by Victor Hugo - chosen by Onur Hassan

Sweet Spring by Joanna Fuchs - chosen by Oliver Rudd

The Leader by Spike Milligan - chosen by Alex Calver

My Love is Like A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns - chosen by Thomas Dolling

If You Stay To School Dinners by (unknown) - chosen by Sam Beck

There Was An Old Lady From Kent - chosen by Joe Horgan

Shadow by Adam Gibbs - chosen by Shane Worges

High Rise Horror by Marian Swinger - chosen by Harry Collins

All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander - chosen by Matthew Carmichael

War by Kristin Evans Rosenthal - chosen by Carter Hatton

Hope is the thing... by Emily Dickinson - chosen by Ben Mehmet and Seb Adams

Music chosen and written by Regan Alexis

Lowly Setting Sun by Peter Halpin - chosen by Oliver Daly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINKS TO POEMS

All links open a Word Document.

Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine

City Jungle by Pie Corbett

Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker

The Six O' Clock News (Unrelated Incidents) by Tom Leonard

A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannell

Are There Still Not Fireflies by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Child On Top Of A Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke

Dis Poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah 

Ducks by FW Harvey

Everything Touches by Roger McGough

First Day At School by Roger McGough

Front Lines (1972) by Gary Snyder

Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

Illuminations by Tony Harrison

In Mrs. Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy

Island Man by Grace Nichols

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Keeping Orchids by Jackie Kay

Night Mail by W.H. Auden

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Poem From A Three Year Old by Brendan Kennelly

Skater of Ghost Lake by William Rose Benet

Spiritual Chickens by Stephen Dobyns

Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah

Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka

The Trouble With Snowmen by Roger McGough

The Bluebottle by Judith Nicholls

The Witches' Spell (excerpt) by William Shakespeare

The Haunted Lift by James Kirkup

The Lesson by Roger McGough

Limbo by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

The Listeners by Walter de la Mere

Timothy Winters by Charles Causley 

The Mermaid by Unknown

Bishop Hatto by Robert Southey

The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley

 

OTHER POETRY RESOURCES 

How to read a poem

KS3 Poetry SOW (for teachers)

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