Thirds – Young Shakespeare Company Workshop
This week, a group of actors from the Young Shakespeare Company came to FHS to deliver a workshop for us! They performed a section [...]
Sixth Form Lecture – Claire Harman
On Wednesday evening our Sixth Form English students were treated to a brilliant talk by award-winning writer and literary critic, Claire Harman, on the life [...]
Drop Everything and Read Fortnight
During the first week of Drop Everything and Read fortnight, we have received a number of thoughtful and creative responses to the books that our [...]
Sixth Form Lecture – Dr Eric Langley
On Monday 5th December, Dr Eric Langley (UCL) provided UVI English Literature students from both our school and our sister school Francis Holland School, [...]
Sixth Form Pupil Commended in Foyle Young Poets Competition
Congratulations to Sara Pantoja in the Upper Sixth for receiving a commendation prize in the Foyle Young Poets competition. More than 6,600 poets aged [...]
Discovery Week – Thirds
It's Discovery Week! This week the Thirds have been focusing on The Arts with trips to galleries, Shakespeare-themed workshops back at School and a [...]
Lower Fifth Performance of DNA in the Helen McCrory Studio Theatre
This year, we are using our new studio to perform a series of smaller, less well known plays. We have already seen an excellent [...]
Upper Fourth Talk by K. L. Kettle
On Friday, we welcomed Carnegie nominated author K. L. Kettle to talk to our Upper Fourth about building dystopian worlds in young adult fiction. [...]
FHS Literary Festival
This week marked Francis Holland School's first Literary Festival, co-organised by the English and Drama Departments. On Monday, as part of our Women of [...]
Young Shakespeare Company – Macbeth
On Tuesday 22nd February, the Young Shakespeare company came in to give Year 8 a workshop on William Shakespeare's Macbeth. To start off with, [...]
