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Our Head of Schools Programmes, Fiona Evans, welcomes the news that the Department for Education will be making 32 primary schools ‘English hubs’.Words, letters and sounds are the smallest components of what is a huge and wonderful...

To celebrate Libraries Week, Victoria Dilly, who manages our Love our Libraries programme, shares her memories of the library and the memories of some of the wonderful authors she works with.Libraries Week is a really good opportunity...

To celebrate National Poetry Day, our Young Writers Programme Manager, Fay Lant, shares some of her favourite poems created by the young people she has worked with this year.Passing tests is important but if we were to choose the two...

Could music hold the key for laying strong foundations for literacy in early years?This is a sponsored post.· How are neuroscience studies investigating the ‘musician’s advantage’?· How does neuroscientific evidence indicate that music...

Our Director, Jonathan Douglas, explains what our new research shows.We’ve long known that a love of reading and writing can help children flourish at school and go on to succeed at work. But we now know that reading and writing for...

Tilly Brooke, Director of School Engagement & Marketing at now>press>play, explains how audio learning can improve engagement in the classroom.Today’s world is full of images and screen time, and so much of this is wonderful...