National Diversity Week at Stamford High School 2020 As this week is Diversity Week, the Prefects at Stamford High School came together to write reviews about lots of the different forms of the creative arts which express diversity in many ways; for example, race and the LGBTQ+ community. This exercise was both informative and interesting […]
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Our Head Boy, Fergus Cato, shares his Lockdown Blog
Lockdown Blog At 15:15 on Wednesday June 17th finished my A levels. The day consisted of two exams, Chemistry in the morning followed by Maths in the afternoon as my last exam as a school pupil. However, this of course did not happen. These past 3 months have been completely different to how I […]
Gina Kilby performs a monologue from “Liminal” by Rebecca Manley
Click on the link below to see Drama Scholar Gina Kilby performing a monologue from Liminal by Rebecca Manley. Video
National Theatre at Home – “Jane Eyre” during global lockdown by Pavel Gulin Zrnic
National Theatre at Home – “Jane Eyre” during global lockdown by Pavel Gulin Zrnic Coronavirus has significantly impacted theatres as they were on the frontline when all the public gatherings were banned which happened even before the whole country went on the complete lockdown. Many young performers within Stamford Endowed Schools including myself were directly […]
Pavel Gulin Zrnic discusses Victorian literary characters through the perspective of modern psychology
Victorian protagonists Vs. Modern psychology Pavel Gulin Zrnic discusses Victorian literary characters through the perspective of modern psychology There is a huge similarity between many of the novels written in the 19th century by the Victorian era writers which is that the majority of their protagonists were orphans who had very tough childhoods. For instance […]
PAVEL GULIN ZRNIC BLOGS FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE OF 2020 ZAGREB EARTHQUAKE: A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY TOPIC LIVE
As if the lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemics wasn’t enough for Zagreb, the capital of Croatia with the population of 870 000 people, the city was also hit by the earthquake of 5.5 on the Richter scale on the Sunday 22th of March 2020. It was just a couple of days after I returned […]
Darcey Sharpe asks if ‘Little Women’ is a feminist novel?
Is Little Women, by Louisa Alcott, a feminist novel? “Little Women” is a classic novel written by Louisa Alcott, which is based on her own experiences. As she grew up with three sisters, I would say that the novel is very realistic as it is known for presenting many of her personal viewpoints and is […]
Eloise Quetglas-Peach explains how All the World’s Stage.
All the World’s Your Stage On Wednesday 29th January, seven language students from Stamford, including myself, who study French or Spanish opted to take part in a competition at Nottingham Girls School. This competition was organised by Business Language Champions (BLC) and one of the directors of this company, Sally Fagan, welcomed us and introduced […]
James Farrow asks: To what extent does reforesting the planet combat climate change?
To reforest is to simply “replant with trees; cover again with forest”. The topic has been revitalised by the social media movement #TeamTrees. This was started in May 2019 when the internet challenged a Youtuber known as “MrBeast” to plant 20 million trees after hitting 20 million subscribers. To complete this task, he teamed up […]