This Autumn, I’m delighted to be teaching a Literature course in two East London schools with The Brilliant Club. Year six students explore different types of literature from different periods of history with a particular focus on how writers depict the natural world, as well as reflect on their own relationships to natural and man made environments. Each week students offer fresh and insightful observations and raise challenging questions, and it is a privilege to be working with them. The Brilliant Club is an award winning non-profit organisation that places doctoral and post doctoral researchers in primary and secondary schools throughout the country. A primary aim of The Brilliant Club is to assist outstanding students to develop the knowledge, skills and ambition to secure places at top universities.
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In this month’s storytelling performance and workshop at St Margaret’s Girls School, we explored a rich traditional story called The Legacy Necklace. Students between 14-18 years old reflected on their own legacies - the values, qualities and influences they feel have been passed on to them from their parents and grandparents. They envisioned and created their own legacy necklaces - the legacies they would like to grow into. It was an inspiring and thought-provoking evening, and I am looking very forward to returning to St Margaret’s in January 2016 with a new story to share and learn from.
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