💡🌏🗺️✍️ What if you discovered the next world-changing invention?

Learning

That was the challenge for Year 8 in English the week before half term!

Inspired by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s travels in the 1700s and her encounter with smallpox inoculation in the Ottoman Empire, students imagined themselves as travellers discovering incredible new inventions. Inspired by the impact one person could make, they got their thinking caps on.

From pollution countermeasures, cures for every illness and anti-ageing vaccines, to portable heaters, time machines and remotes that control the sounds around us, their ideas have been wonderfully inventive. Mrs Patrick now has a remote control for animated oracy tasks - it works!

It has been fantastic to see students combining creative writing with bold ideas about how inventions might transform our lives. As Lady Montagu did, they have written well-crafted letters sharing their discoveries.

Well done Year 8, we might see some of you on Dragons’ Den one day!