AQA & OCR 2018
GCSE, AS & A Level English Literature
Poetry
Delivered by Oxbridge Academics
Venue
Cambridge University Union Debating Chamber
Each event includes all relevant poems. All poems on your syllabus will be covered. See full list of poems at the bottom of the page:
Monday 5th February - OCR GCSE Poetry: Love and Relationships
Monday 5th February - 0CR GCSE Poetry: Conflict
Monday 5th february - OCR GCSE Poetry: Youth and Age
Monday 5th February - OCR A Level Poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer – The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
Monday 5th February - OCR A Level Poetry: Coleridge - A Selection
Tuesday 6th February - AQA A Level Poetry: Love Poetry Through the Ages pre 1900
All conferences will run 11am - 3pm.
All speakers will take questions from your students
Tea, coffee and cake will be available for your teachers at the venue as soon as you arrive!
We can help you by providing:
a risk assessment
directions to cafes
suggested routes to the venue from your school
Cost
£34/student
Teachers accompanying students attend at no cost.
Unaccompanied teachers wishing to attend should contact us.
Prices do not include VAT, which your school should be able to reclaim in full.
Optional Extras
Following payment you can choose one of the following free:
Reserved seats near the front
A school photograph with one of our speakers
The chance to send to us in advance, a question chosen by your students, for one of our distinguished speakers, which a representative of your school can ask in the Q&A
(Inevitably, access to these opportunities is limited, and is allocated to schools who request it on a first-come-first-served basis.)
Feedback from Last Season
"This is our first visit and I love the venue and obviously going to Cambridge University was a real treat. We got a really warm welcome and the atmosphere was relaxed and unthreatening." Caroline O'Gara, Lead English Teacher, Ashley College, Wembley
"Fantastic to experience the historical, cultural elements of sitting in this venue." Karen Moore, Teacher of English, Careers Coordinator, Reading Court School
"This event really gave the students an understanding of lectures at university, which was required. I really like the opportunity to experience lectures in a world renowned university and specific references to the key poems." Leah McGree, English teacher, Redden Court School
"-Friendly, accessible, useful for GCSE and wider reading, with engaging speakers" Sasha Hardman, Subject Leader, Bohunt
"A fantastic opportunity for KS4 Students. I enjoyed the variety of speakers and the range of interpretation." Jane Hemingway, English teacher, Manningtree High School
"Clear, precise info given." Lauren Hussain
"Superb knowledge and detail. Efficient admin responses. The Location - raising aspirations." L. George, English teacher, The John Roan School
Over 400 schools attend AIM Conferences every year.
Bookings
You can enquire or provisionally book for this conference by filling out our booking form here or by emailing us at: info@aimconferences.co.uk
The Poems
AQA A LEVEL Love Poetry Through The Ages: post-1900
I, being born a woman
Love and a Question
À quoi bon dire
One Flesh
Meeting Point
For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
Wild Oats
Talking in Bed
Punishment
Vergissmeinnicht
Timer
The Love Poem
Long Finish
To John Donne
After the Lunch
AQA A LEVEL Love Poetry Through The Ages: pre-1900
Whoso list to Hunt
Sonnet 116
The Flea
To His Coy Mistress
The Scrutiny
Absent from Thee
The Garden of Love
Ae Fond Kiss
She Walks in Beauty
Remember
The Ruined Maid
At an Inn
La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
OCR GCSE: Love and Relationships
A Song
Bright Star
Now
Love and Friendship
A Broken Appointment
Fin de Fete
The Sorrow of True Love
An Arundel Tomb
Love After Love
Morning Song
Long Distance II
I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine
In Paris with You
Warming Her Pearls
Dusting the Phone
OCR GCSE: Conflict
A Poison Tree
Envy
Boat Stealing (from 1799 Prelude)
The Destruction of Sennacherib
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
The Man He Killed
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Vergissmeinnicht
What Were They Like
Lament
Punishment
Flag
Phrase Book
Honour Killing
Partition
OCR GCSE:Youth and Age
Holy Thursday
When I have fears that I may cease to be
The Bluebell
Midnight on the Great Western
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
Ode
Out, Out-
Red Roses
Baby Song
You’re
Cold Knap Lake
My First Weeks
Venus’s-flytraps
Love
Farther
OCR A LEVEL: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Aeolian Harp
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts (1817 text)
Christabel
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem April 1798 (‘No cloud, no relique of the sunken day’)
Fears in Solitude
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
The Pains of Sleep
To William Wordsworth
The Knight’s Tomb
Youth and Age
Constancy to an Ideal Object
OCR A Level: Geoffrey Chaucer
The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
