News from English

45 of our students’ poems will be published in the Young Writers’ poetry anthology called The Beautiful Truth. Students across all the year groups entered. Congratulations to all students who took part.

I would like to share Imogen Bundy’s poem below, born out of discussion about women’s rights in form time:

The Beautiful Truth

Hidden from sight, Imprisoned inside, The source of all sin, Let them sing.

Killed for their laugh, Killed for their cry, Killed by their husband, father, uncle Why ? Impunity the Taliban bring, Let them sing.

Going back in time, Before learning was a crime, When they sat as judges, And the professional ladder they could climb.

Now all that was hers has become his, Nine year old girls with a wedding ring, Her body, her brain, her smile, her skin, With no say in anything.

Let them sing. Let Afghan women sing.