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Festive To Be Read pile: update

January 7, 2020January 10, 2020Oxford English Team
suitcase of books to be read

The Oxford Team had a fairly large collective To Be Read pile and an impending holiday approaching offering quality reading time. So was any progress made and were there any last minute substitutions? A few members of the team let us know! Susie: The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare “I did not complete the Infernal Devices series! I watched […]

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The Geography around us

October 24, 2016October 17, 2016Oxford Geography Team 1 Comment

This year, my holiday unintentionally enabled me to witness and think about some excellent geography.   I believe everything can be related to geography in some way!  This gave me the idea for a lesson for my KS3 classes.  ‘The Geography of my Holidays’ asks pupils to think carefully about either a holiday or a day […]

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Welcome back 2014/5

August 28, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

I hope that you had a really good break over the summer. The holidays are a welcome break from routine and pressure, aren’t they? For a number of reasons we decided not to go abroad this year, one being that I had just returned from two weeks in Germany with the UK German Connection . I was a […]

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