‘The Friary Pen’ is the latest offering for our students in terms of a literary extra-curricular activity and offers an online Ezine (an online magazine) for students to write for and publish on our website.
The project offers workshops and industry experience of writing, creating, and publishing. Alongside the workshops is a termly project where students create, collate, edit and publish an Ezine. The student-led publication centres around a broad termly theme that allows students to reflect on their knowledge gained across subjects and discussions presented in focus weeks to create a personal, creative response.
The Spring 2023 theme of ‘Place’ allowed students to create based on our school and their own curriculum: individual life experiences; understanding of the news/world around them; Focus Weeks (such as International Women’s Week); history topics / guest speaker and Holocaust survivor; a science HLA; a topic studied in French; surrealism; a story read in the library book club; interest in their teacher’s PhD and real life application of a subject; among other topics that have caught their interest over this term.
Please follow the link here to explore at your leisure and share our marvel at the worlds that the Friary students have ruminated on, crafted, reviewed, and shared to showcase the knowledge they have gleaned this term.
Abi Wright, Ezine Co-Ordinator, said: “Students involved have been able to explore the curriculum in a creative way, write to overcome personal adversity/hardships, and have their voices, thoughts, and passions shared in a way of their own design. It has been a new and exciting project and we are already looking forward to next term’s education.”
Matt Allman, Headteacher, added: “We look to give our students a broad curriculum and it has been a real pleasure to read the article and see how the wider topics we teach and explore have resonated and inspired original and critical thinking. The articles are of a superb standard and we are thrilled with this first edition.”
