World book day – classroom doors
Pictures of the fantastically well decorated range of doors done for world book day today. Many students spent many hours making these great displays. Each house had …
Dickens prepares for world book day…
Dickens checking his diary….students to read with and World Book Day dress up next week!
Walking talking mocks
Mrs McArthur leads year 11 through the first ‘walking talking mock’ of the year! Overwhelmingly the students agreed it made a big difference. Other subjects to follow…
Year 10 see ‘Blood Brothers’
Mrs McArthur and Mrs Iannucci took their year 10 class to see Blood Brothers at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal! It was a great performance!
What’s Dickens been up to?
Dickens getting to grips with a more challenging text alongside our A level English students. Alisya Boyraz introduced him to Madame Bovary this morning.
Saturday Study Club
The first Saturday study club of the year is under way. I’m really pleased that 65 Year 11 students have braved the weather to attend a 2 hour session in …
Year 10 English
Mrs McArthur’s Year 10 have been writing as the character of Marley in ‘A Christmas Carol’. They made chains of quotations relating to Marley and what he says to Scrooge …
Who the Dickens…
…Is Dickens? He is our new guinea pig reading buddy. Our students are really enjoying reading to him and even the usually animal (un)friendly Mr McArthur is rather taken by …
Our newest millionaire…
We celebrated Will becoming a Paulet Millionaire this week. He has read over 1 million words on the Accelerated Reader program and is well on his way to 2 million!
Dickens …
Star readers…
Mrs Allsopp and Mrs Guest took a group of students to Watertones bookshop this week to reward them for being ‘star readers’ since September! Well done to all and keep …
GCSE in Russian…
Alexei visited Russia over the Christmas holiday to help prepare for his GCSE in Russian that he will take in the near future. During his visit he was able to …
Carol service 2015
We had a wonderful carol service at St. Peter’s Church today. More than 65 of our studentstook part in drama, readings, the choir and carols. It was standing room only …
Reading for pleasure…
Here at Paulet High School we aim to inspire a love of reading in our students. Reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on educational outcomes, but it is also …
What’s this? Writing on tables..!
Year 10 students using tables to explore characters in the play ‘Blood Brothers’.