We’re looking for someone new to join the English 4-11 Editorial Board. If you have an interest in primary and early years education, children’s literature, and research, this is a great way to use your skills, broaden your professional networks, and engage with new and exciting classroom practice. Email us on ceo@englishassociation.ac.uk to find out more.
We’re proud to support this project, co-ordinated by Prof. Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Dr. Kate De Rycker (Newcastle), and Dr. Archie Cornish (Sheffield), in collaboration with freelancers in the creative industries.
Are you: an English teacher, working in a state school, in England, and with at least 5 years experience? Are you interested in: talking about why you wanted to teach English and Reflecting on the choices you are able to make in relation to curriculum? Could you take part in 4 x 45 minute interviews…
In 2020 the English Association invited colleagues in schools and universities to reflect on how the lockdown affected their practice in teaching, research, writing and publishing, and administration; this became vol. 14 of the Issues in English series, titled ‘”In the midst of things”: COVID-19 and English’. In 2022 we carried out a follow-up survey…
Winnie and Wilbur have been favourites of readers from as long ago as 1987 and this book goes back to the time when they first met. When Winnie was a very new witch she lived happily for a while in a large dark house in a forest – until she realised she was lonely. She…
This is a geography/science book about weather and climate and how it affects the world but with a difference. It is a story book too about how four friends, having had a hot summer holiday until the last night when it tips down with rain, decide to investigate the weather. This book of discovery about…
The Adventure Club books are an illustrated series for young readers by Jess Butterworth. In this book the Tigers have disappeared from a sanctuary because the Monsoon rains did not arrive on time. The Adventure Club steps in and travels to India to search for the tigers. Tilly the organiser is worried as the sanctuary…
The cover of this large hardback book lures the reader with illustrations of brightly coloured parrots that stand out from the background and shimmer with blue foil. Camilla De La Bedoyere explores the wide range of birds in the world and we learn about what a bird is; birds that have lost the ability to…
Poor Frida is weighed down with all her worries – quite literally, as she picks up a pebble for each and every one of them – and Frida worries a lot. She worries about choosing the right clothes for whatever the weather might do, she worries that she might forget something, about where to sit…