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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...

Explain, explore, evaluate: we know that as extended writing becomes integral to more and more GCSE subjects the profile of literacy across the curriculum has been raised, but the nuances of a command word, even the concept, can still...

The new host of BBC Radio 1 Breakfast, Greg James, and Newsbeat presenter Chris Smith chat to our director Jonathan Douglas about becoming children’s authors, storytelling and the world of Kid Normal.Jonathan Douglas: Tell us how it...

Polina Lyadnova, Natalie Farmer and Byron Spring from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton explain how the company is introducing sixth-form students to deal-making…On Tuesday 3 July, Cleary Gottlieb teamed with volunteers from TPG,...

Man Booker Prize-nominated author Wyl Menmuir explains the powerful impact author visits to schools can have on children.I remember vividly meeting my first author. It was at my local library. I was eight and the writer was Robert...

Geetha Sundar, Head of Computer Science/ICT at St Michael’s Catholic School in High Wycombe , explains how she’s tackling fake news in her classroom…Social, moral, spiritual and cultural (SMSC) issues are covered in ICT and computer...

Hannah Jenkins, English teacher at Maesteg School in Wales, explains how she’s tackling fake news in her classroom…“Miss, did you know World War 3 is going to start this week?”“Sylvester Stallone died this morning.”“School is closed...

Children and young people today are growing up in a globalised world. The rise of digital and social media is transforming their experience of news and demanding them to process information from a wider variety of sources than...