Literature students take their learning to new heights

SIXTH form literature students voyaged to Haworth for a day of lectures and adventure related to their set text, Wuthering Heights. 

As well as a tour of the Brontes' home, now the Parsonage Museum, expert talks from the curator shone a new light on the novel we have come to love. 

Aspiring writer Annabel Cochrane thought it was invaluable as a way of integrating her studies of the context with the landscape of the text itself.

There was also time to see Haworth graveyard and the church where the Brontes are buried, allowing the students to fully immerse themselves in imagining nineteenth century life. 

Evie Dodds says: "Treading in the very footsteps of Emily Bronte, fortified by hot chocolate, and time spent exploring the quaint cobbled village has brought the text to life; there was a beautiful crisp sunset on the way home which was a perfect ending to our day out." 

Aria Writer said "We thoroughly enjoyed frolicking in the moor, pretending to be Cathy and Heathcliff." 

For Olympia Dunn, it was simply "The best school trip I have ever been on, and perhaps one of the best days of my life!".