To All Year Nine English pupils

We are going to begin a new English project the week before your February half-term holiday (Week 8).  

What?

The project will give you a chance to practise using English to speak and write about things that inspire and intrigue you. You will have the chance to work alone and in groups. When we write, it will be on our own blog and web page. If we make presentations, do interviews or films, we will post them on the site too. The project will begin in a fairly controlled way, but we will then develop the work according to your interests.

How?

Here are some of the sort of things we could do, but different ideas are welcome too:

·         Creative writing, such as short stories or plays — always posted on our own blog, so classmates can read and comment

·         Travel writing, or finding out and writing about different places and their past

·         Emails or letters to people or organizations to find out information, maybe as part of an investigation; or job and study applications

·         Reports on places, people or events that we can film on mobile phones and edit on laptops.

You can have a look at examples of a similar project we did at another Stockholm school a year or so ago: http://insteadofpensandpaper.blogspot.se/. Here the pupils used the blog to do their different writing tasks and their classmates could read and comment on them. We used the blog to post instructions for coming tasks as well as links to useful information

When?

The classes will take place at the same time as your normal English classes. The idea is that we will have around 8-10 pupils in each group. If you are interested, let your teacher know. These classes will involve a lot of work. But we hope the work will be interesting, challenging, and inspiring.