Time Travelling with Year 10

Over the last three weeks, our Year 10 students have been on a journey through time, from humanity’s oldest surviving written story Gilgamesh (which they learned, was a lot more interesting than the version they read in Class 4!) to the literature of the Baroque period - a time when new ways of seeing our world, through the telescope and microscope, were being expressed. Through each text, we inquired into the development of human consciousness and asked ourselves, What does the story reveal about the human condition at this time?
 
We created timelines which reviewed all the significant periods and events studied since the beginning of Primary School, building a picture of the major events that shaped human evolution up to the Baroque period, and studied some of the most influential pieces of writing from the time.
 
Under the microscopes, we examined a number of prepared slides, as well as creatures found around us - from a rat’s tail to a bumblebee and a centipede. Students wrote inspired poetry to express their wonder at this close up view of the natural world. 

The Humble Fly
​by Samadhi Bloor

The glistening and swirling of the blue, 
Rests upon its wings, so perfect and true, 
The complex patterns of the eye, 
Might make you want to cry,
If you knew what I told you, 
Was a creature admired by few, 
It's not a lion nor it's cry, 
But the simple, humble fly.
 
​Lynne West
English Teacher