# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley:A long, long time ago!

Favourite book: A Working Diary by Julie Hesmondhalgh (Totally inspiring!)

Literary character I’d most like to be:Sherlock Holmes (who wouldn’t like to be that perceptive)

Quote to remember:“There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood." James T. Kirk.

# data[].attributes.body
'English at BGS is amazing. The teachers are really nice and I have enjoyed all the topics and the work.' that has been set.

# data[].attributes.body
Favourite book: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Favourite poem: 'Ulysses' by Tennyson

Quote I like: 'To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.' - Joseph Chilton Pierce

Fun fact: I'm Canadian which explains my funny accent

# data[].attributes.body
Favourite book: The Hobbit

Dogs or cats: Dogs-obviously!

Favourite quote: 'Not all those who wander are lost.'

# data[].attributes.body
Studied English Literature and Drama for my degree before doing a post grad in teaching. I have been at Bingley Grammar for over nine years.

Favourite novels: A Passage to India, Lord of the Flies and Brave New World and more.
Favourite poets: Keats, Dickinson and Frost... and more.
Favourite plays are by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Shaw... and more.

Films: Lost in Translation, Open Range, Citizen Kane... and... you guessed it!

Inanimate things I love most in the world: my motorbikes!

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: Five years.
Favourite book: A Christmas Carol.
Literary character I'd most like to be: Professor McGonagall (never ending wit, and a shape shifter - what's not to like about that!)
Quote to remember: Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Albus Dumbledore (JK Rowling).

# data[].attributes.body
Favourite Book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie – who doesn’t love a good murder mystery?

Literary Character I’d most like to be: Lyra from His Dark Materials, so I could have a daemon AND understand how to read the alethiometer and be able to know the truth about everything!

Hogwarts House I’d be in: I always get sorted into Gryffindor for some reason… but I’d probably be Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw!

Quote to remember: ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’ – Harper Lee

# data[].attributes.body
'When I came to BGS my English teacher was really nice and we read books like in primary which I enjoy.'

# data[].attributes.body
'English at BGS is amazing because you get to study many things. My favourite part was reading Private Peaceful.'

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: Long and fun!

Favourite book: Decline and Fallby Evelyn Waugh

Literary character I’d most like to be: Bertie Wooster. Then I can rely on Jeeves to get me out of life’s scrapes.

Quote to remember: ‘Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.’ – from Cat’s Cradleby Kurt Vonnegut

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: 5th year this time round!

Favourite Book: So so many but probably Pride and Prejudice.

Literary character I would like to be: Elizabeth Bennet definitely, she is feisty and clever and speaks her mind.

Quote to remember: ‘Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.’ – Said by Dumbledore in The Deathly Hallows.

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley Grammar: Since 2010, a few of you may have spotted me at your primary schools doing Shakespeare workshops.

I like teaching English because: it opens up a world of creativity and inspiration to students.

Favourite book: The Great Gatsby.

If I was a character from a book I would like to be Liesel Meminger from The Book Thief.

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: 7.5 Years

Favourite book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Literary character I’d most like to be: Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice because she’s bold, fearless and strong.

Quote to remember: Forrest Gump: My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: Two years

Favourite book: This is a tough one…one of my favourites is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Literary character I’d most like to be: Katniss Everdeen (she is fiercely strong and a great shot with a bow and arrow!)

Quote to remember:‘ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’John Keats

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: 13 years.

Favourite book: The Great Gatsby

Literary character I’d most like to be: Katniss Everdeen (I would love to be that brave)

Quote to remember: ‘Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times. If one only remembers to turn on the light’. Albus Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: Started January 2017

Favourite Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Quote to Remember: “Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ― C.S. Lewis

Favourite Topic to Teach: All of them!

Favourite Food: Pie and Mash

Favourite Place: New York

Most enjoy:Long walks in the Yorkshire Dales

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: 5 years

Favourite book: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Literary character I’d most like to be: Katniss Everdeen

Quote to remember: ‘It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.’ J.K Rowling

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: 5 years.

Favourite book: The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Literary character I’d most like to be: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice; she’s brilliant at standing up for herself, her friends and her family.

Quote to remember: “One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.”  Annie Bryant.

# data[].attributes.body
Counting down the days until you can start at Bingley Grammar? Here are some books to keep you occupied in the (hopefully) sunny months ahead!

In English, you’ll read a class novel set during war time. Here are some other war time books you might like to try:

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave by John Boyne

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Anne Frank's diary

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Horrible Histories: The Second World War

Why not read about some of the topics that you will do this year in other subjects?

Eliza Rose by Lucy Worsley

Edelweiss Pirates by Mark Cooper

No-one Is Too Small To Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg

Horrible Geography: Violent Volcanoes

The Planets by Andrew Cohen with Brian

Finally, here are some books to keep you entertained!

Can You Solve My Problems? by Alex Bellos

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Holes by Louis Scahar

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

Snowflake, Seahell, Star by Alex Bellos

If you’re looking for more books to read, look at our Year 7 Reading List on the Reading Page of the Bingley Grammar School website in the curriculum area.

Why not tell your English teacher in September which books you’ve read over summer? We look forward to meeting you!

# data[].attributes.body
During the course of Year 7 you will study the following 5 units:

Unit1- The Modern Novel (either Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo or The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Unit 2- Imaginative Writing (to include writing stories and descriptions and appropriate writing techniques).

Unit 3- Shakespeare's Villains (looking at a range of Shakespeare's best baddies and tackling reading questions).

Unit 4- Media and Non-Fiction Writing (to include print and TV adverts, magazines and newspapers and creating your own information leaflet).

Unit 5- Poetry (looking at a range of poems from different poets from different time periods).

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: Eleven years

Favourite Book: Sophie's World

Literary character I'd most like to be: George from The Famous Five

Quote to remember: ‘Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.' (Terry Pratchett)

# data[].attributes.body
Time at Bingley: since before you were born!

Favourite book: Hamlet (the greatest by the greatest)

Literary character I’d most like to be: Hermione Granger (who wouldn’t like to be that clever!)

Quote to remember: ‘Smiles are like sunbeams’: Roald Dahl