Devizes pupils put their pens to paper (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Devizes pupils put their pens to paper

11:00am Friday 3rd February 2012 in News By Lewis Cowen

Devizes School pupils have been firing off missives to politicians and celebrities to polish up their letter writing skills and express their opinions.

To coincide with national write a letter week, Devizes School put the focus on whole school literacy by participating in a get writing week, led by English subject leader Helen Carpenter.

Students in design and technology wrote letters to Education Secretary Michael Gove, arguing that their subject was an important part of the curriculum and should remain so.

In PE, students created a wall of sporting inspiration with explanations as to why certain people were their sporting heroes. Some students named PE teachers Lou Clune and Sue Marshall as their heroes.

Inspired by the BBC series Frozen Planet, science students wrote a letter to David Attenborough to inform him of the results of switch-off week, an energy conservation week.

In geography, students wrote about weather issues and, in languages, students wrote to a school in France, inspired by their teacher Matthieu Perez’s experiences, as he previously worked in a school in the country.

In maths, students wrote letters to an absent student who was in hospital for an operation, helping her to catch up with work missed.

Students who showed themselves to be particularly good writers included Toby Kidd, Jack Penfold-Burt, Charles Dillon, Ellie French, Aimeri Ismail, Caitlin Johnstone, Nicole Kyte and Megan Turnridge.