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It is is with great pleasure and power for me to introduce my girls to the art of storytelling. Stories personal to their contexts and beings;  who they are, who they have been, ought to be, want to be, need to be...
Because in all fact, all those categories may be totally different viewed in or/and of isolation.

Students should not be fed, simply, but exposed to food for the soul, both from their peers and those who have gone past and the living. Most of all students should make their own food; what best way than through stories.


This half term my grade 9's are telling their stories through different media in topics such as:

  • life through movies
  • life through people we have and have not met
  • life through music
  • life through books
  • life through poetry
  • etc...
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