Archie - Year 10 Student Editor's Note: Year 10 English Language students were tasked with writing descriptively about the room in which they were working; this gem comes from Archie. MJP Upon a hill in North Yorkshire, there sits a house half swallowed by nature. Behind the coarse stone and scratched glass, there is an … Continue reading The Room I’m Working In
Karen - Year 13 Musician Editor's Note: Here for your enjoyment is the full recording of Karen's home recording of Brahms Intermezzo Op.118 in A Major. As many of you may know, Karen has an offer to study Music at St Catherine's College, Cambridge from September. AWK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfPZ5YUGkw
Narayan - Year 12 Student Editor's Note: Narayan, studying Spanish in Year 12, has produced a fun revision artefact on a difficult grammar point in Spanish: the relative pronouns. RR https://youtu.be/0EHlVB5UwGY Letras / Lyrics This song’s about pronouns but they’re relative They’re used in clauses that are relative This type of clause is subordinate Like … Continue reading Relative Pronouns in Spanish
Eloise - Year 12 Student Author's Note: I decided to enter the Write on Art competition as it was like nothing I had ever done before and, after attending a school talk on Art History a couple of months prior by Griselda Pollock, I decided to give it a go. Then was the task of … Continue reading ‘Hope’ by George Frederic Watts
Jamie - Year 12 Student Editor's Note: Writing for the GSAL Humanities Journal, Jamie explores some of the issues pertinent to Labour's sizeable defeat in the General Election held in the UK in December 2019. This is Jamie's second essay to be published in the Humanities Journal: his first piece, entitled Genghis Khan: A Dastardly … Continue reading Why Labour’s voters deserted the party, and why they were right to do so
Karen - Year 13 Musician Editor's Note: Here for your enjoyment is Karen's home recording of Brahms Intermezzo Op.118 in A Major. I am working on a way to share the full recording, but, for now, here's the first part. As many of you may know, Karen has an offer to study Music at St … Continue reading Brahms Intermezzo in A Major
Ben - Year 12 Student Editor's Note: Year 12 student Ben has submitted this fascinating essay to the Peterhouse College, Cambridge, annual Kelvin Science Prize essay competition. Ben's chosen topic is the Cordyceps fungus, a genus so truly remarkable in its modus operandi that it really does have to be seen to be believed; therefore, … Continue reading Cordyceps: master of the zombie apocalypse?
Eddie - Year 12 Student “Incarceration”, a scary yet supposedly necessary process for the function of society; this article will explore the effectiveness of the judicial system alongside the mental health of prisoners. It goes without saying that crime deserves a just, proportionate sanction and as such, prison sentences are standard in issuing punishments. Ideally, … Continue reading Why incarceration is not honouring its intention: have we reached the point of no return?
Grace - Year 10 Student The following is my submission to the Hope for the Future Competition, a competition which challenges students to produce exciting pieces of artwork representing a climate emergency for a chance to showcase their work in UK Parliament. I also entered this artwork of the school into the Art of a … Continue reading A Zero Carbon School
Avital - Year 11 Student Editor's Note: This fantastic piece of artwork has previously been shared across various GSAL media platforms, but is fully deserving of a place in The GSAL Journal. With us all spending much more time at home, many of us are taking the opportunity to learn new skills or revisit old … Continue reading Leonardo
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