A super resource to support 'Everybody Writes Day' in schools.

1. Exploring writing beyond the classroom
Guide for secondary schools
How to:
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• Take writing beyond the classroom ion
• Give students direct experiences to write about
• Find real audiences for students’ writing
• Explore writing across the curriculum
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What is Everybody Writes?
Everybody Writes is an approach to writing, By offering students hands-on experiences to
making it enjoyable and relevant to students. write about and by establishing real audiences for
The four key principles are: students’ writing, the Everybody Writes approach
is particularly effective in engaging the interest
of boys and less committed writers. But such
• Taking writing beyond the classroom dynamic and authentic writing experiences also
give the most able writers an opportunity to shine.
• Giving students direct experiences to write about
This guide will help you to consider new ways
• Finding real audiences for students’ writing of establishing a positive, whole-school culture
of writing.
• Exploring writing across the curriculum
It offers ideas on how to get everyone is your
school engaged in writing, planning dynamic
Contents writing projects and celebratory Everybody Writes
An Everybody Writes project could involve Days. It will help you to evaluate the effectiveness
What is Everybody Writes? Page 1 working with a local journalist on a whole-school of your Everybody Writes project and ensure
How do we know that it works? Page 2 newspaper writing project, running a series of that your project has a lasting legacy for writing
Getting started Page 3 after-school workshops for students to script and in your school.
What is an Everybody Writes Day? Page 4 develop their own films, or setting up a lunchtime
Examples of projects Page 6 blogging club to track the progress of a favourite
Exploring writing across the curriculum Page 8 football team in the Premier League. ‘They benefited massively from the project…
Planning your project Page 10 it brought them out of themselves and gave
Getting everyone involved Page 12 The Everybody Writes approach – and how it them really special opportunities for talk and
Documenting and evaluating your project Page 13 can be applied to your day to day teaching - is for communicating, which were then able to
Sharing and celebrating your project Page 15 explored in this guide for teachers. There are even influence their writing.’
Useful contacts Page 16 more ideas on the comprehensive website: Headteacher, London Borough of Wandsworth
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Everybody Writes is run in partnership by Booktrust and the National Literacy Trust and is
funded by the Department for Education.
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Join the network of Everybody Writes Enthusiasts
This is a national network of teachers who are interested in writing and who are keen to use
the Everybody Writes approach to writing in their own schools. Teachers who are Everybody
Writes Enthusiasts are invited to a free annual writing workshop and receive a monthly update
of new content on the Everybody Writes website: CPD opportunities, competitions for children,
interesting writing projects and more. To join the network or to share your own writing project on
the website, email info@everybodywrites.org.uk or visit www.everybodywrites.org.uk
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How do we know that it works? Getting started
When young people enjoy what they are writing But the Everybody Writes approach isn’t just Step one: Step three:
about, they write more and they write better. useful for students: it encourages teachers to Get your colleagues on board Seek inspiration from what others have done
When students have a clear sense of a real examine afresh the writing opportunities offered to Hold a staff meeting so that everyone feels Find out what other schools have done to
world audience that lies beyond the classroom, young people. Everybody Writes provides a focus involved from the very beginning. Invite colleagues address challenges similar to your own. Speak
their writing is focused and they approach the for wide-ranging discussions amongst staff from from other departments and be sure to include to colleagues from local schools, or go to the
task with a heightened sense of purpose. That all departments, enabling you and your colleagues your school librarian. Encourage your colleagues Everybody Writes website and search the map of
audience might consist of members of a local to share what you already know about writing to talk about their own feelings towards writing, your local area to see what schools near you have
sports club, visitors to the local public library and to pool your varied experiences of what is separate from their identities as teachers. Get done. Search the Everybody Writes website for
or perhaps readers of an online music fanzine. effective in motivating young people to write. them to think about what it is that they like and writing projects that target boys, EAL pupils or a
dislike about writing, and what aspects of writing particular key stage. Find projects on the topic of
The Everybody Writes approach and the ideas their students like and dislike. letter writing, drama or history, or writing projects
and projects featured in this guide are all about “This evaluation… has provided evidence that involve working with local businesses.
building positive attitudes towards writing, in that Everybody Writes has been outstandingly Discuss the status of writing in your school.
the belief that improvements in standards can successful in meeting its objectives. A wide range Share the Everybody Writes approach with
follow. Everybody Writes has been independently of innovative and creative work has taken place in your colleagues, and encourage them to visit
evaluated by the University of Sheffield. schools which has impacted on pupil engagement the website.
Researchers examined the impact of the and achievement and teachers’ subject and
Everybody Writes approach on pupils’ attitudes pedagogical content knowledge. The projects Step two:
to writing and on the standard of their writing. have left a valuable legacy for other teachers of Think about your writing priorities
You can download the full report at writing through the website case studies.” Working with colleagues, use the wallchart to get
www.everybodywrites.org.uk, but here are University of Sheffield an overview of what your school is already doing
some highlights from their evaluation: to support writing. This will help you to identify
existing strengths and to focus on any gaps or
areas for development. Discuss any year group or
• Everybody Writes has had a very positive groups of students who face particular challenges
impact on students, teachers and schools where writing is concerned. Consider any
students who are particularly reluctant to write:
• Everybody Writes has had a positive impact you may want to visit the website to use
on boys’ attitudes to writing the interactive tool to create personalised
writing tasks for young people who require
• Everybody Writes has had a positive impact additional support.
on children who are reluctant writers and
those at risk of underachieving Is writing in your school development plan? Are
there any particular strands of writing that could
be improved upon? Think about the larger context
of writing in your school.
‘Some students wrote and achieved more than
they ever usually do in a week. It showed the
potential of a lot of students that, through usual
tasks, would not shine through. Hidden talents
were revealed that day.’
Literacy Co-ordinator, Hampshire
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What is an Everybody Writes Day? An example of an Everybody Writes Day
Everybody Writes Day is a national celebration of writing held in October ‘I thought oh no! Quilley School of Engineering in Hampshire, ‘The day was a complete success. Both staff
each year. It’s a great opportunity to collapse the curriculum for a day and Writing all day! a small specialist school, was seeking to raise and pupils enjoyed it and everyone learnt
get the whole school excited about writing. Planning a big event on a special But it’s really quite fun. students’ attainment in writing across the something new or had a revelation as to why
day can have an important impact on the school’s perception of writing. We have never done curriculum. Staff hoped that a whole day devoted writing is important.’
You may want to plan a series of activities running up to the day – and you’ll anything like to exploring and celebrating writing in all its forms Headteacher, Hampshire
certainly want to find ways to ensure that the impact is lasting. this before.’ would engage the interest and enthusiasm of all
Student, Year 8, Hampshire students and boys in particular.
If you can’t manage the October date, hold your Everybody Writes Day at
any time of year – perhaps coinciding with Science and Engineering Week or The curriculum was suspended for the day and
Black History Month. each tutor group participated in three 90-minute
workshops, including:
• Science: Investigating a staged crime scene in • Working with a local business: Students wrote
the classroom, students were required to write Jeremy Clarkson-style reviews of the new Mini
a forensics report. Staff were delighted by the Cooper when locally-based car manufacturers
extent to which students chose to suspend BMW brought the car in to school
their disbelief
• Visiting a local landmark: A visit to the airport
• Maths: Code-writing and code-cracking. sparked ideas for students’ reports on the
Students built a Caesar Shift Wheel and used it growth in international travel and the cost to
to decode and encode texts as well as re- the environment
visiting an old favourite: writing words with
numbers on the calculator • Making links with the local community:
Interviewing former pupils and older local
• Modern languages: Students explored the craft residents, students captured stories of how
of handwriting as they learned how to construct things used to be
Kanji letters with the support of Japanese guests
in traditional dress • Sport: Students worked with a professional
football referee from the local area and learned
how to write a referee’s match report
A student news team visited workshops and The legacy of Quilley School’s Everybody Writes
interviewed students and staff to capture the day Day was a greater enthusiasm for writing among
for the school newspaper and website. By the end students, a positive experience of cross-curricular
Students write to each other in code as part of a maths and writing project of the day, writing from every workshop had been working for staff, and a higher profile for writing
published in the school newspaper or podcast on in the school.
the school website, and some workshops were
even broadcast on the local news, after the school
alerted BBC South to their plans with a simple
press release.
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Examples of projects Case study 1: Case study 2:
Chestnut Grove School Exploring writing in
writes a book the workplace
An Everybody Writes project may be for a class, a Students, staff and members of the wider school Year 10 Business Studies students at Holy Trinity Why don’t you…
year group or the whole school. It’s an opportunity community worked together to write and publish a Catholic Media Arts College in Birmingham Use contacts with parents, a local business or a
to explore writing in other subject areas and book telling the story of Chestnut Grove School in worked with a local theatre and a writer for five locally-based franchise to set up your own project
could be linked to drama or science, or focus on Wandsworth, London. The aim of the project was weeks to explore writing in the workplace. The on writing in the workplace.
blogging or sport. It could span a few days, weeks to reinforce the idea that everyone is a writer with aims were to improve understanding of functional
or even a whole academic year. a story to tell. writing skills and to link classroom learning to the
real business environment. ‘The project had a significant impact on
Projects that happen across the school or a An editorial team of students formed a lunchtime students…The students now have a better
whole key stage tend to have the greatest impact, club and worked with the support of a teacher Students explored the different forms of functional understanding of business language and how to
generating a buzz of discussion in the playground over a period of several weeks to capture the writing associated with producing the play adapt it for different audiences and purposes…
and staffroom. You may choose to use an different voices and perspectives which would tell Bulletproof Soul at the Birmingham Rep Theatre. It has been a rewarding and enjoyable experience
Everybody Writes Day to launch a new project or the story of the school. The writer acted as a facilitator, making the for all those involved.’
to celebrate the conclusion of a project. link between the business and the school and Teacher, Birmingham
between creativity and functional writing.
You’ll find more than a hundred examples of Stories included:
writing projects at www.everybodywrites.org.uk: • A former student’s memories of learning French
these are tried and tested projects that were run in in the 1930s Students:
schools by teachers like you. • Listened to recordings of meetings and drew up
• The site manager’s story of a flood at the school a mock contract based on notes taken
in the 1990s
• Used guidance from the Marketing Manager to
• A current student’s proud memory of being create a press release and flyer
asked to join the school cricket team (left)
• Acted as Front of House staff answering a mock
letter of complaint
With the expertise of a lecturer to help capture
the stories, an external graphic designer and the • Wrote and delivered a Dragons’ Den-style pitch
use of a publishing service, students produced a for a proposed production
highly professional, published book. The legacy of
this shared writing project - aside from the book • Used advice from the Development Manager
itself - was a greater sense of school identity and to write letters to potential funders of future
the emergence of a writing community. productions
Why don’t you…
Collapse the curriculum for a day and invite The legacy of the project was improved writing
members of the community in to share stories across the curriculum: students were able to
about your school. Publish the stories as a successfully transfer the skills learnt to other
newsletter, blog or book. Host a book launch and subjects – particularly report writing and letter
sell copies to raise funds for your school. writing – and they developed greater confidence
in delivering presentations. One unexpected
outcome of the project was to open up career
choices, with one student expressing an interest
in pursuing a career in marketing.
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Exploring writing across the curriculum Everybody Writes and Programmes of Study
The hands-on nature of the Everybody Writes • PSHE: students write emails in response to a Everybody Writes can effectively support Programmes of Study
approach has the potential to invigorate all areas news story about vandalism of a local park - not just in English, but across the curriculum.
of the curriculum. Linking an Everybody Writes
project to a subject such as geography or art can • Art: students create elaborate paper mache The Programmes of Study ensure that engagement with the
provide a fresh perspective on what children are puppets and use them to write and develop a key concepts, processes and content of English and other
learning as well as how. promenade drama piece for the local community curriculum areas happens in a wider context. The Everybody
Writes approach, which takes writing beyond the classroom
Schools that successfully integrate the Everybody • History: students invite members of the local and into homes, the community and the workplace, is an
Writes approach into their teaching weave it into community to contribute scraps of fabric and the opportunity for teachers to bring the Programmes of Study to
their existing calendar of activities. They may stories behind them to a community history quilt life for their students.
use key dates such as National Poetry Day or
Black History Month to inspire an Everybody • Geography: students create a map of their local By giving young people authentic experiences and engaging
Writes project, or they may choose to embed an area, featuring the stories and poems inspired topics to write about and by providing real audiences
Everybody Writes Day into their Arts Week or an by those places – either paper-based or online for students’ writing, Everybody Writes presents great
annual science project. opportunities for the development of functional skills such as
• Business studies: students create t-shirts, the skills required for letter writing, report writing, note-taking
‘We were encouraged to not make extra workload mugs and calendars featuring their own poetry and so on. Everybody Writes projects and activities provide
but to build it into what the school was doing to sell as part of a young entrepreneurs scheme important opportunities for the focused talk and discussion that
already – and particularly coming up to the underpins truly effective writing.
summer term, that really appealed to me.’ • Media studies: Year 7 students create a film for
Teacher, Southampton Year 6 pupils on how to survive the first week at
the big school
‘The outcome is that curriculum planning has
completely changed. We now start with the writing
outcome. We say: how are we going to make this
as exciting and as purposeful as we can, so that
there’s a purpose and an audience all the time?’
Headteacher, Southampton
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Planning your project
1 Room for improvement
Which areas of concern would you
like to address?
2 Aims
What would you like to change
or achieve?
Anti knife crime campaign: project timeline
Writing assignments in Year 10 students are engaged by Before: Meet with subject teachers to discuss ways in which knife crime can be explored through
Year 10 PSHE produce lacklustre their subject matter and write lively, writing in different subjects. Contact neighbouring schools, hospitals and youth centres to
and uninspired results. interesting work. arrange visits and distribution of the leaflet. Make links with the local police service and a graphic
design company and invite guests to the school.
During: With input from staff and visitors, students work on writing documentary voiceovers and
3 Enthusiasms
What do staff and students currently
enjoy or get enthusiastic about?
4 Opportunities
What activities can you link into or use
to motivate young people?
interview questions in Media Studies and on writing poetry in English. In PSHE students write the
campaign leaflet focusing on appropriate language that will appeal to teenagers, and then write
lobbying letters to the local MP.
Students have recently expressed Year 10 students could run their
concern about knife crime own anti-knife crime campaign, After: Students visit neighbouring schools and youth centres to talk about the leaflet. Letters
among teenagers. researching the facts and statistics are sent to the local MP. A follow-up meeting with the students assesses the success of the
on knife crime and producing an campaign and any next steps.
information leaflet for teenagers for
5 Resources distribution at local youth centres Outcomes: All students have worked with young people from other schools and members of the
Who or what can contribute to and A&E departments. Students community and feel that their voices have been heard. Students’ writing has been valued by their
the project? could also lobby their local MP to peers and by adults and given high status in the community.
A police community support officer take action against knife crime.
could advise the campaign team on Writing legacy: Good links have been established with a local graphic designer, which could be
the content of the leaflet. A graphic useful for future writing projects in other subject areas.
6 Constraints
designer from a local business could
help with design tips for the layout. What are the possible barriers
to success, and how can you
overcome them?
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How can you get colleagues in other
Connections Evaluation What’s next?
subject areas enthused and excited
Can you link to other areas of the Did you achieve your aims? How can How can you build on the successes
about giving time to the project?
curriculum, or to other schools in you record what worked, what was of your project?
your neighbourhood? difficult, and what students got out of Look for other interests,
This PSHE project could link to the project? If you did it again, would enthusiasms or areas of concern
Media Studies, with students
creating a short documentary,
interviewing key people for a
8 Legacy
How can you document the day, or
make sure the work you did creates
you do it differently?
Ask the students in the Media
Studies team to evaluate the project
for future projects. Can you use this
project as a model for other projects
on different themes, tweaking
film to be featured on the school a lasting impact? by interviewing other students (and the process according to what
website. In English, pupils could Staff now feel confident to work teachers) about what they enjoyed worked best?
write poetry based on news reports together and the school plans to about it. Compare the quality of
of knife crime or their own ideas run at least one cross-curricular samples of writing in PSHE and
and feelings about knife crime and writing project every year. English with those written before
‘Staff commented that it was useful to have the
why it happens. You could contact the project. At the next staff meeting,
normal routine disturbed to refresh their own
neighbouring schools and find out collect colleagues’ responses to the
thinking within a supported environment’
if your students could visit to talk project. If anything could be done
Teacher, London Borough of Lambeth
about the campaign and distribute differently, note down ideas for
copies of the leaflet. next time.
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Getting everyone involved Documenting and evaluating your project
The school community Local businesses Documenting your project Evaluating impact
Try to engage the interest and support of Let local businesses see what calibre of pupils Why? Why?
every adult in the school community, from the you are producing: their future workforce! Documenting your project enables you to share Evaluating the impact of your Everybody Writes
headteacher – whose support is essential to the Staff in local firms may be willing to offer short your project and experiences with other teachers project – on attitudes, as well as attainment –
success of the day – to the site manager, catering work placements for students or come to your via the Everybody Writes website, creating a enables you to get a clear picture of what worked
staff, teaching assistants, PTA and governors. It’s school to talk about what their jobs involve. model writing project to guide and inspire others. well and what could be improved upon next time.
best to do this as early as possible. Not only will Make links with the local newspaper and a
you increase the range of expertise, interests and restaurant and have students write restaurant But it’s not just for the benefit of others:
contacts to put into the planning process, and the reviews for the local paper. documenting your project will help you to reflect How?
number of people to share the work, but students on your own teaching practice and the case study • Track the impact of the project on one or
will see that the project, and of course writing, are Arts organisations and related materials could also come in handy two students in particular (eg a student who
valued by all the adults around them. Is there a museum, theatre or gallery nearby? when applying for a promoted post or completing has previously been hard to engage), telling
Make the most of what resources and expertise an Ofsted self evaluation form. the story of how the project influenced that
Parents of current students they offer by contacting their education or student’s attitudes and writing. Include this
Parents can be a great source of different skills, outreach officer. information in your case study: it helps to
contacts or ideas. Rally their support via the A local museum offers ‘takeaway’ artefact boxes, How? bring the case study to life.
school website, letters, newsletters and full of interesting objects that can bring a • Write up a brief case study to share with
parents’ evenings. written history project to life. your colleagues or via the Everybody Writes • Scan examples of student work before and
A Year 9 mother works for a printing website, telling the story of what you did after project
company which offers to print colour posters Special guests and how you did it - including what you
free of charge. Why not add a touch of glamour to your would do differently next time. • Gather quotes from students about
Everybody Writes Day by inviting a local celebrity, attitudes to writing, captured before and
Older residents writer, journalist or artist, or someone with a • Write a how-to guide to running the project: after project
Older people in the community may have more special story to tell? this is a polished version, instructing others
time to spare and could actively enjoy spending A well-known sportsperson launches Everybody how best to approach the project, giving a • Use software such as SNAP or Survey
time with students. Many of them may also have Writes Day by talking about why writing is timeline, etc. Monkey to conduct online surveys of
interesting stories to tell. important to him or her. A local writer runs student attitudes before and after
Students interview older people in a local writing workshops for students. • Create lesson plans/teaching sequences the project
residential home as part of a World War II (if appropriate).
history project. • Use audio or video to capture student
‘Everyone was involved in our project and I think • Scan or photograph examples of students’ attitudes: students can interview each other
Local or national charities that was important… All our planning was done in work: this is essential in order to show other about what they think about writing and
Visit your library to find out which charities operate staff meetings: everyone was involved in thinking teachers what you did. what they thought about the project
in the local area. They may have education about what they wanted to do, contributing
officers who can visit the school or support what ideas – LSAs were involved, dinner staff, and the • Include photos, video, audio – anything else • Record evidence of changes in writing (sub)
you are doing through special resources. caretaker has been fantastic.’ that will help to tell the story of your project. levels since project
An education officer from an environmental Teacher, Southampton
charity talks to students about efforts to
clean up the local rivers. Students in Year 9
Geography incorporate the information into
essays about pollution.
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Sharing and celebrating your project
Spare a bit of time to think about publicising your Join the network of Everybody Writes
event so that students know that their writing Enthusiasts
is valued and so that your hard work can be This is a national network of teachers who are
appreciated by the wider community. interested in writing and who are keen to use
the Everybody Writes approach to writing in
• Let the community know about your Everybody their own schools. Teachers who are Everybody
Writes Day or project in advance, perhaps via Writes Enthusiasts are invited to a free annual
newsletters or blogs and podcasts on the school writing workshop and receive a monthly update
website. Is there an aspect in which visitors can of new content on the Everybody Writes website:
share or participate? CPD opportunities, competitions for children,
interesting writing projects and more. To join the
• After the event, ask students to take network or to share your own writing project on
photographs and write reports for the school the website, email info@everybodywrites.org.uk
website or community websites. You could also or visit www.everybodywrites.org.uk
share what you’ve done on the Everybody
Writes website
‘Sending out press releases to all the local media
Local press paid off. We had the local BBC camera crew
To gain wider local publicity for what your spend half the day with us for a feature on their
school is doing, write a press release and send evening magazine programme and received good
it to your local newspaper. Local papers are publicity in the local press and Radio Solent.’
Students enjoy writing using collage and mixing media always looking for news items to cover and an Literacy Coordinator, Hampshire
article or photo will enhance the school’s profile
in the local community.
• A busy journalist might only have time to read
the headline and first paragraph, so it’s
important to make a press release catchy, with
the key facts included at the beginning
• If you’d like a local paper to send a
photographer to your event, give them two or
three days’ notice (followed up with a phone call)
For detailed advice on writing a press release, visit
www.everybodywrites.org.uk
A cross-curricular art, craft and writing project engages boys in writing
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Useful contacts
Ask your library for information Apples & Snakes Booktrust National Association of Writers National Literacy Trust ‘One unexpected outcome was
about local organisations that www.applesandsnakes.org www.booktrust.org.uk in Education (NAWE) www.literacytrust.org.uk that we, as staff, found ourselves
can support your project, Apples & Snakes promotes Booktrust is an independent www.nawe.co.uk The National Literacy Trust links talking more about exciting
or search online for national performance poetry, provides national charity that encourages NAWE supports creative home, school and the wider writing activities, and not only
organisations that might offer poets to work in schools and people of all ages and cultures writing in all genres and in community to inspire learners how to encourage students in
writing inset or other forms offers training to teachers to to discover and enjoy reading. all community and education and create opportunities for their own writing, but how to
of support. develop their confidence and Visit the website for book settings and produces online everyone. They support those initiate writing.’
creativity in teaching poetry. recommendations, information resources, publications and who work with learners through Teacher, London Borough of Brent
Remember to visit Sessions can be tailored to suit on award-winning children’s training events. It also features their innovative programmes,
www.everybodywrites.org.uk the schools’ needs. Teachers’ books, guidance on books and the Artscape directory – www. information and research, and
for further ideas and resources. resources can also be found on disability, and information on artscape.org.uk – a national bring together key organisations
their website. free books for Year 7 students. directory of writers who work to lead literacy promotion
You may also find the following in schools. in the UK.
national organisations helpful: BFI Education Booktrust Writer in Residence
www.bfi.org.uk/education www.booktrust.org.uk National Centre for Language Poetryclass
BFI Education promotes press Every six months, a new writer and Literacy www.poetryclass.net
and media literacy and runs takes up residence on the www.ncll.org.uk Poetryclass, run by the Poetry
inset that links writing and Booktrust website. Students The centre supports teachers, Society, is one solution for
literacy with film and media. It can explore the work of new parents and governors in a teachers wanting to bring poetry
produces a range of resources writers and read writer interviews wide range of ways: through a alive in the classroom. A training
and training packs for teachers and blogs. unique collection of resources, team of poets is available to
and hosts conferences, seminars publications, an extensive work with teachers to overcome
and workshops for learners of Booktrust Teenage Prize programme of courses and their concerns about teaching
all ages. www.booktrust.org.uk conferences, ongoing research, poetry. There is also a useful
Awarded annually to the best and a membership scheme online poetry classroom on the
new books for teenagers, this designed to meet the needs of website with lots of resources
prize shortlists books that are individual schools. Schools can and lesson plans for Key Stages
sure to challenge and inspire find authors, illustrators and 1 to 4. Inset can be provided
young adults. storytellers for school visits and throughout England.
projects via the NCLL
National Association for the UK-wide database.
Teaching of English (NATE)
www.nate.org.uk National Literacy Association
NATE provides publications and www.nla.org.uk
training to support the teaching The National Literacy
of English in schools as well Association campaigns for
as literature reviews, an online children’s literacy, operates
forum for English teachers and project work in schools and
classroom resources. produces useful publications
to support teachers from
foundation to Key Stage 4.
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11. ‘I have seen able writers and artists grow in
confidence, skill and experience, working in
collaboration with their peers and with people of all
ages within and beyond the school... It has definitely
enriched the learning experience of all involved.’
Assistant Headteacher, London Borough of Lambeth
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