Anthem for great English teaching at St Clere’s

SOMETIMES, it is hard to edit down an hour lesson into a ten minute package. Mr Smyth’s lesson on the war poem: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” was a classic example. Indeed, it may have worked better as a one-hour, no-edit piece.

This is with a year 9 class. We thought it was a year eleven class and were so impressed as they grapple with alliteration, onomatopoeia and a whole host of advanced themes in a really absorbing lesson.