After completing the e-asTTle testing it was necessary for both Years 8 and 9 to revise the various language tools needed with particular relation to writing. This included different aspects such as word classes, sentence structure including learning about dependent and independent clauses, the use of conjunctions, how to use the Oxford comma, using apostrophes to show possession (and as a contraction), and direct speech.

This week the Year 9 students have been exploring a Science Fiction story entitled “There Will be Soft Rains”. It is a haunting story, written in the 1950s by Ray Bradbury, exploring the decimation caused after a potential nuclear bomb. The students are tracking the time period over the story and deeply analysing what was ordinary at particular times and what was unusual; frankly, it turns out to be everything!