November reading list:
Death and the penguin: A Kurkov
The Vegetarian: H Kang
The things we leave unfinished: R Yarros
The Nakano Thrift Shop: H Kawakami
Mix Tape: J Sandersons
Evenings and weekends: O McKenna
On the calculation of volume III: S Balle
💙📚 #booksky
October reading list:
Tell me everything: E Stroud
The midnight bakery: E Davies
Secrets at the last house before the sea: L Eeles
Blue Sisters: C Mellors
Greta & Valdin: R K Reilly
The man who didn't call: R Walsh
When the museum is closed: E Yagi
💙📚 #booksky
September reading list:
The sky beneath us: F Valpy
Hello beautiful: A Napolitano
Notes on a scandal: Z Heller
The instrumentalist: H Constable
The Glass maker: T Chevelier
Medusa's Sisters: LJA Bear
Not bad given it was the start of a busy term!
💙📚 #booksky
The brightest stars of the constellation of Orion. The Orion nebula below centre. All on a dark background.
Orion from last week. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StoemHour #ThePhotoHour
Ah - thank you. He was just a silly and goofy cat and we weren’t prepared for it. Much harder than the last two losses. ♥️
As the tranquility of twilight feels like a gentle embrace, invite peace into yours. Breathe deeply and allow yourself to enter this moment of stillness, honoring the path you've taken and the quiet strength that has sustained you along the way.
Reminds me of our pair of bros Pepsi & Luna 🌈
(We are sixth form only and this applies to all subjects we offer).
We have a no marking policy. Students mark their own work and upload it to OneNote for staff to check. We only ask staff to mark assessments. We do have a dedicated feedback lesson timetabled per subject (weekly or fortnightly) during which students mark, correct and upload and ask questions.
It’s a lot of work at the start of y12 and we set aside a lesson a week specifically for them to mark and upload but after a few weeks, most know what’s expected. A couple will continue to frustrate to the end!
We don’t use textbooks. HWs centrally written & solutions all done (we shared out as staff initially). In y13 tend to be exam qs. In y12 we focus on problem solving. We upload answers to OneNote. They mark/correct/upload. teacher does a quick check - easy to pick up poor habits and train them up!
2-4 hours. Matching class time is too much; students have 5 hours of A level contact time. X4 A Levels. Plus extra curricular lessons. They only have 4 free periods a week. We don’t feel comfortable asking them to do 20 hours a week. Usually a week for HW. All self-marked.
August reading list:
Stone Blind:N Haynes
Library of Lost Love:N Clarke
The Cat & The City:N Bradley
Dear Reader:C Rentzenbrink
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven:M Albom
The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay:A Robertson
Rebecca:D du Maurier
Clear Light of Day:A Desai
On track for 100 in 2025
#booksky 💙📚
Beautiful Milky Way Time Lapse
Caught a piece of it at 5:30 Pacific today: the Moon, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury (low, at arrow), plus Castor and Pollux.
Earth is in the foreground. 😉
Hello planets!! - just before sunrise got too bright! #astrophotography #space
Just caught this on my phone about 15 mins a go. Thank the cat for getting me up - London and it’s a bit bright of course. #astrophotography
Black cats are the best cats 🖤
July reading list:
The 5 people you meet in heaven:M Albom
The Life impossible:M Haig
The forgotten book club:L Storey
Letters from Ginza Shihodo stationery shop: K Ueda
Under the lemon tree:E Cowell
Funny Story:E Henry
The bookshop ladies:F Hogan
On the calculation of volume 2: S Balle
#booksky 💙📚
that eye burning feeling when you stayed up too late reading 300 pages to finish because it got too good
Me: I don’t have time to reply to texts. Also me: reads 496 pages in one sitting and emotionally bonds with three fictional strangers
Idk who wrote this but this explains me well
Bright blue skies (taken at 8am in June) green tree tops and a clear moon in the sky.
Morning moon :)
June reading list:
Glorious Exploits: F Lennon
The Bridegroom was a dog: Y Tawada
The Restaurant of Lost recipes: H Kashiwai
The silence in between: J Ferguson
My Friends: H Matar
On the calculation of volume: S Balle
Ghost Pains: JJ Stevens
The Storied life of AJ Fikri: G Zevin
💙📚 #booksky
Adjusting to life with 1 cat rather than 4! He’s happy but very clingy and vocal. But we feel he may be a little too old (14) for us to bring new cats into the fold.
I shall add to my reading list!
Li-Young Lee TO HOLD So we're dust. In the meantime, my wife and I make the bed. Holding opposite edges of the sheet, we raise it, billowing, then pull it tight, measuring by eye as it falls into alignment between us. We tug, fold, tuck. And if I'm lucky, she'll remember a recent dream and tell me. One day we'll lie down and not get up. One day, all we guard will be surrendered. Until then, we'll go on learning to recognize what we love, and what it takes to tend what isn't for our having. So often, fear has led me to abandon what I know I must relinquish in time. But for the moment, I'll listen to her dream, and she to mine, our mutual hearing calling more and more detail into the light of a joint and fragile keeping.
One day we'll lie down and not get up.
One day, all we guard will be surrendered.
Until then, we'll go on learning to recognize
what we love, and what it takes
to tend what isn't for our having. - To Hold by Li-Young Lee
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
May reading list:
All the colours of the dark: C Whitaker
Hera: J Saint
Four Seasons in Japan: N Bradley
The mysterious bakery on Rue de Paris: E Woods
The Greek House: D Jefferies
Invisible Kitties: Y Yoyo
#booksky 💙📚
The Joy of Curiosity Do you remember those days when every day brought you a new quest, a new story, a new fact, when you were unafraid to ask why, a thousand times why, the way magic sparkled in your eyes every time you learned something new like an octopus has 3 hearts, and there is a sandstone formation that looks just like a wedding cake, and there is a kind of jellyfish which is immortal. Remember that joy when you learned something for the first time - like why is the sky so blue, what made the grass green, what do you mean there is an island in Japan where the cats outnumber the people? It is a kind of courage, is it not? To be able to open your mind and to embrace your curiosity whether you are 2 or 82. Forever learning because language and knowledge belongs to us all. It is all a kind of joy, I believe. To look out your window in awe at the world and think, what new astonishing, beautiful things will I get to learn about you today. - Nikita Gill
“It is a kind of courage, is it not?
To be able to open your mind and to embrace your curiosity whether you are 2 or 82.”
Cute black cat sleeping on a white blanket with arm dangling off the side.
Happy #caturday to one and all!
April reading list:
The light behind the window: L Riley
The great alone: K Hannah
An ideal husband: E James
The Kamagawa food detectives: H Kashiwai
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: G Zevin
We’ll prescribe you a cat: S Ishida
#booksky 💙📚
