Hello Y10,

We've had an excellent start to Y10 and your GCSE English course. Well done.

Last week, we looked at Simon Armitage's poem Out of the Blue, read by Rufus Sewell. This is a very moving reading and production of the poem; you discussed the performance and issues well in your groups.

This week, we'll look at media techniques and terminology. You've already started to look at film reviews and we'll aim to start to consider the features of good review writing. This will lead us to write our own reviews later this term.

Hope you've had a good weekend.
Ms Caldwell
P.S. I'm having a few problems with the formatting of this post; I apologise for its distinct lack of perfection!