{"id":5271,"date":"2018-03-16T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:24:29","slug":"from-wordsworth-to-mini-sagas-the-latest-from-the-english-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/from-wordsworth-to-mini-sagas-the-latest-from-the-english-department\/","title":{"rendered":"From Wordsworth to Mini Sagas – the Latest from the English Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chetham’s Year 7 English class have recently been studying Romantic poetry and poetry inspired by nature. Wordsworth’s Composed upon Westminster Bridge<\/em> describes the beauty of sunrise over London and students have been coming up with their own creations in response. Here is 11 year old Zosia\u2019s wonderful poem about sunrise across Manchester:<\/p>\n

City Mourning<\/strong><\/p>\n

January mornings and the sun wakes up with me<\/em>
\nStepping outside, my footsteps fall in line with the commuters.<\/em>
\nWe all beat time to the thrum of the cars, the song of the birds,<\/em>
\nand the clatter of the Waitrose van;<\/em>
\nThe light drawing is into another day.<\/em>
\nBlackened, giant buildings are silhouetted against a rich, vivid sky.<\/em>
\nThe sunrise is like a search-light,<\/em>
\nPicking its way through the dark moods of the city.<\/em>
\nThe light softens the stance of the stark concrete buildings,<\/em>
\ngiving the murky canal water a sheen<\/em>
\nthat masks the city\u2019s cast away secrets.<\/em>
\nAs the sun rises and warms the morning,<\/em>
\nlast night\u2019s troubles seem to evaporate,<\/em>
\nthe colours giving the city a chance to renew.<\/em>
\nSunrise uses a fine brush to stroke the sky bright with colour.<\/em>
\nThe colours seep into the very fabric of the buildings,<\/em>
\nframing a photo that shows them at their very best.<\/em>
\nEven the neon signs of Crazy Pedro\u2019s are muted by the intensity,<\/em>
\nand cannot compete with the brilliant glow of the sun.<\/em>
\nFeeling the weight of need and want,<\/em>
\nnow that the sun has penetrated the city\u2019s armour.<\/em>
\nVulnerable as the light reveals the lost and the broken;<\/em>
\nstill huddled in a doorway called \u2018home\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

In other English news, last term, students in Years 7 and 9 entered the Young Writers’ Stranger Sagas Competition<\/a> \u2013 where they were challenged to write a \u2018mini-saga\u2019 in just 100 words!<\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that, out of over 20,000 entries nationally, 17 of our students have been chosen to have their short stories included in a published anthology. Congratulations to those students and everyone who took part!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chetham’s Year 7 English class have recently been studying Romantic poetry and poetry inspired by nature. Wordsworth’s Composed upon Westminster Bridge describes the beauty of sunrise over London and students have been coming up with their own creations in response. Here is 11 year old Zosia\u2019s wonderful poem about sunrise across Manchester: City Mourning January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":5272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-academic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}