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From Cokethorpe to Published Author

by tl | Jan 20, 2025 | Cokethorpe Society

We spoke to Katie Buckley (OC 2014, Harcourt) about the release of her first novel, Hero, and shared some memories of her time at Cokethorpe. Congratulations on the imminent release of your first novel. Can you tell us about it? The book, which comes out in January,...

History is Written by the Victor

by tl | Sep 28, 2024 | Academic

We are thrilled to share with you that Third Form pupil, Freya (Queen Anne) has won ‘best story’ in a prestigious national ‘Write your own Historical Fiction’ competition run by the Historical Association. Freya wrote a piece entitled ‘The Disaster’. Judge Tony...

A passion for English

by tl | Dec 1, 2022 | Academic

As part of their work on Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, pupils have been writing their own descriptions of imagined mean characters and the weather. To develop their descriptive writing, some second form pupils took a trip to the Woods to look more closely at the world...