Location : My Classroom Time : A Tuesday afternoon, 2008 Class : Year 10 Me : Right, can anyone think of an animal that starts with ‘N’? Student : Notter Me : Sorry, can you say that again? I’m not sure I caught it right. Student : A Notter.
2
An extract
One thing I’d come to realise about living in the city was that movement was different here. At home, in the countryside, there was a slow ebb and flow…
2
Perched on tables and chairs, we assembled around the perimeter of the classroom, wondering what it was. Or at least what it was for. In a clearing on…
3
Monday morning and Macbeth was on the menu. Ten minutes in and one student had already re-written Shakespeare’s masterpiece, interjecting with ‘that's…
2
As a child, O held a deep fascination for me. It was its symmetry, its simplicity. There was a warmth and consistency and a reliability to it. It was…
4
An extract from 'Fathom'; the story of a mother and her twin sons, struggling to fathom their new life, their new selves, following the disappearance of…
1
It brought with it a confused migration. Somnambulant sailings that seemed bereft of rhyme or reason. A murmuration of one with no discernible course or…
3
See all

Fathom