News: English
A "fair and foul" morning - Macbeth Production
The weather was "foul", but the morning was "fair" for year 10 students, as they enjoyed MANACTO's production of 'Macbeth'.
Reading Festival Author Workshops
On Tuesday we hosted author workshops in collaboration with Carr Hill High School and St Bede's School as part of our We Are Reading scheme.
Library refurbishment project is complete!
Over the past three years, the Library has been transformed into a valued space for independent learning and teamwork and now the work is complete.
LSA Millionaire Readers 2018
This year we had almost 80 successful millionaire readers in Years 7 & 8 as part of our Accelerated Reader scheme. One student achieved the remarkable total of over 4 million words read!
Reading Festival
We will be running a Reading Festival on Tuesday 12th February 2019, involving ourselves, Saint Bedes and Carr Hill with a number of authors putting on workshops and talks throughout the day.
Lancashire Book of the Year
Today students met the shortlisted authors at a major event, brilliantly organised by Lancashire Libraries. Our students enjoyed the experience immensely.
Author MA Griffin visits LSA
This week we had a great day of book readings and writing workshops small and large with the excellent author MA Griffin.
Lancashire Book of the Year Judging Event
Today Kyla and Brandon represented LSA in the Lancashire Book of the Year final judging event. The behaviour was exceptional and both pupils did an excellent job at expressing their opinions.
Performance at the Lancaster Grand Theatre
A huge thank you to the Lancaster Grand Theatre & the National Production Company for an excellent performance on 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare' yesterday.
World Book Day at LSA 2018
All week we have been doing a variety of activities to celebrate World Book Day.
Year 8 students get creative in English!
It was all fun and games in a Year 8 English class as they took part in an Iron Man competition, inspired by the novel 'The Iron Man'. Students had to build their own Iron Man robot.
National Poetry Day competition winners
There were lots of really good entries so thank you to everyone who got involved. Find out who the winners are here.
Kite Runner English Theatre Visit
On 4th October students in Y9 and Y10 visited the Salford Lowry to see a production of The Kite Runner.
National Poetry Day Competition
To celebrate we are asking our students to write their own poem about Freedom they will be entered into LSA’s Poetry Competition.
Another talented writer
Tyler writes for The Blackpool Gazette and reports on all the Blackpool home games.
The Book People Bedtime Story Competition
Here's an opportunity for our newest arrivals to indulge in some creative writing
English in Action.
Mr Prescott's Year 8 class have been performing 'Our Day Out' by Willy Russell.
Shakespeare Sharing Day
Pupils in Y7 shared their recently made board games and drama experiences based on The Tempest with students at other local schools.
Sponsored Spell!
Students in Y7 & 8 have raised over £3000 in the annual English Department Sponsored Spell!
Women In Black Scares Students!
Students in Y9 were scared stiff when they went to see 'The Woman in Black' at Salford's Lowry!
Live screening of 'Hamlet' at LSA!
Live stream of a Royal Shakespeare Company Hamlet performance!
Winner of Rotary Writers' Competition
A huge well done to Y9 pupil Ella Peebles who won this year's Rotary Club Young Writers' Competition. She was awarded her prize in assembly.
English Department Handwriting Competition Winners Announced!
Lucy Brown and Alexandra Karadzhinov have won the handwriting competition!
Poet Adam Kammerling visits Y7 on FLD
Performance poet Adam Kammerling visited Y7 and worked his magic on Flexible Learning Day. Pupils were treated to a session where he worked with them to help create and perform their own poems.
8Z1 Make National Accelerated Reader Roll of Honour!
8Z1 have now featured on the Accelerated Reader roll of honour!
Y9 English Students Write and Publish a Novel!
Year 9 students have achieved the incredible by writing their own novel,
Y9 English Visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon
Y9 pupils were certainly 'Bard' when they visited Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare's birthplace.
Y12 English Lytham Hall Visit to see 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Y12 students visited Lytham Hall on Friday evening for an outdoor production of Shakespeare's comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. The production was excellent, although the same couldn't be said about the weather!
Two words not one competition winners
LSA pupils have been improving their literacy skills by entering a competition to design a poster showing that alot, aswell, infact, thankyou and eachother are TWO words, not one!
Byron Biographies
Y10 researched the colourful life of Lord Byron as part of their GCSE English Literature course and turned their findings into magazine front covers.
LSA English Sees ‘Gangsta Granny’!
Pupils in Y7 and 8 enjoyed a dramatic performance of David Walliams’ novel ‘Gangsta Granny’ at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre.
English Sixth Formers Share Their Skills!
Y7 pupils were treated to a poetry session today when sixth formers came to their lesson to teach them about Seamus Heaney’s work.
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