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588                    <div class="menu__navigation-title">The Writers’ Examination Board (WEB)</div>
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659    <div class="news-card__title">The Spinner of Webs: Arachne and Athene by Isabella (Year 9)</div>
660    <div class="news-card__date">5 August 2026</div> 
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665    <div class="news-card__title">Taking on a challenge</div>
666    <div class="news-card__date">16 June 2026</div> 
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671    <div class="news-card__title">I&#039;m only human after all!</div>
672    <div class="news-card__date">20 May 2026</div> 
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677    <div class="news-card__title">Reducing stress across the exam period - for all the family</div>
678    <div class="news-card__date">14 May 2026</div> 
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683    <div class="news-card__title">Batting Into the New Season</div>
684    <div class="news-card__date">11 May 2026</div> 
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689    <div class="news-card__title">From Reception to Sixth Form</div>
690    <div class="news-card__date">25 February 2026</div> 
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695    <div class="news-card__title">Supporting families to navigate the digital age</div>
696    <div class="news-card__date">30 January 2026</div> 
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700        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/parent-talk-on-misogyny-and-misandry" class="news-card">
701    <div class="news-card__title">Parent talk on misogyny and misandry</div>
702    <div class="news-card__date">10 December 2025</div> 
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706        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/romans-ruins-and-road-trips" class="news-card">
707    <div class="news-card__title">Romans, Ruins and Road Trips</div>
708    <div class="news-card__date">25 November 2025</div> 
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712        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/bgs-rugby-converting-the-comeback-2" class="news-card">
713    <div class="news-card__title">Converting the Comeback</div>
714    <div class="news-card__date">14 November 2025</div> 
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718        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/curious-not-furious-with-fran-ripley" class="news-card">
719    <div class="news-card__title">Curious, Not Furious</div>
720    <div class="news-card__date">15 October 2025</div> 
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722    
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724        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/black-history-month-2024" class="news-card">
725    <div class="news-card__title">Black History Month at BGS</div>
726    <div class="news-card__date">9 October 2024</div> 
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728    
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730        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/bgs-south-africa-sports-tour-summer-2024" class="news-card">
731    <div class="news-card__title">South Africa Sports Tour Diary</div>
732    <div class="news-card__date">20 September 2024</div> 
733</a>    </li>
734    
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736        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/the-big-bgs-election-2024" class="news-card">
737    <div class="news-card__title">The big BGS election 2024</div>
738    <div class="news-card__date">26 June 2024</div> 
739</a>    </li>
740    
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742        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/science-of-learning-and-revision-tips" class="news-card">
743    <div class="news-card__title">Science of Learning: ‘Learning how to Learn’</div>
744    <div class="news-card__date">11 March 2024</div> 
745</a>    </li>
746    
747    <li class="news-cards-list__item  is-hidden ">
748        <a href="https://www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/whats-on-and-news/bgs-blog/world-book-day-2024" class="news-card">
749    <div class="news-card__title">Looking for a good read?</div>
750    <div class="news-card__date">7 March 2024</div> 
751</a>    </li>
752    
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961                <p>Congratulations to Isabella (Year 9) who was awarded 1st
962place in her category at this year’s <a href="https://classicalassociation.org/competition/mythology-competition/">Classical Association Mythology Competition</a>.
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964Her original composition 'The Spinner of Webs', inspired by the myth of Arachne, beat a high level of competition from across the country and beyond. 
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968<p><em>A fine dusting of shattered glass covered the room I now stood before. Evidently someone – something – had got here before me. I carefully navigated my way through the sharp, shimmering sea of glass and located what I came for. I looked upon it with a bittersweet gaze. Gaze – for I could not smile. I could see the image that I had come to hate, after so many centuries of searching and finding, finding then failing. I smoothly scuttled up the silken surface of this Holy Grail – the amphora – and plunged inside.</em></p>
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969Once I took in the rich terracotta tones of the amphora, I began to feel the magic enclosed within this one amphora. This amphora, so loved and awed and treasured and worn. I closed my eyes and heard - felt - the spirits trapped within the warm clay walls of the amphora singing songs of gods and mortals, of the heroic and the punished. This song instilled in me such vibrancy of thought and emotion, the likes of which I hadn’t felt since I could smile and cry. I opened my eyes, and then at last I could open my soul. I could feel the pure power of the myths and memories now coursing through my veins. I could almost feel myself transforming—</em></p>
970<p><em>The ethereal voices ceased. Was the process complete? Had I transformed? I looked down at my body. Still eight legs. Something was off. Why hadn’t it worked? I burst out of the amphora and returned home. There were times for breaking into museums and trying to reclaim my soul, and times for replanning when things go appallingly wrong.</em></p>
971<p><em>Once back at my web, I began to think about what could have gone wrong this time. I thought about who I was – Arachne – and what I was now – an immortal spider. I needed to return to my previous incarnation. But to do it without a body? Impossible. So find the memories – <strong>always the memories </strong>. The way I could get to my soul was sucking it from objects associated with me, or even better yet, objects that belonged to me. The latter was obviously out of the question, since my kingdom had been passed between different empires for eternity. So I had to break into museums. Look for the weaver - <strong>always the weaver</strong>. Then claim what was mine.</em><strong><br></strong></p>
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