Hmmmm.... So my Year 11s sat their GCSE English Language examination today: Paper One, Imaginative Writing. I wouldn't normally comment on something like this but I am irked. The text given was a translation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. A translation. Of a Russian text. In an English Language exam. I am concerned. The students have… Continue reading Crime and Punishment
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Weekly Round Up 28th May
Okay, so some books are a quicker read than others, sometimes life, children and work get in the way of reading and finishing a book. Half-terms always seem like a good time to catch up on that eternal TBR pile ... but then life intervenes and you end up standing in a river in glorious… Continue reading Weekly Round Up 28th May
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