Book recommendations The Tree and the River Aaron Becker Walker Books ISBN 978-1529516760 £7.99 Aaron Becker’s The Tree and the River scooped a coveted double-win the Yoto Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration and the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. It is described as a “beautifully crafted” and “universal” wordless picture book. Looking at…
Join us to explore the stories and poems in the Our Rights! anthology, alongside Jake Hope (editor of Our Rights!), Sita Kenyon (Education Officer at Amnesty International UK), and Becci Smith (creator of a suite of related learning resources). Our Rights! is an anthology of short stories and poems based around children’s rights. The book features pieces written…
Shakespeare’s Globe and the English Association will host a day-long, outcome-focused meeting to address the growing consensus among teachers, exam boards and other stakeholders that GCSE English Literature and GCSE English Language require reform. The event will be hosted at Shakespeare’s Globe on Wednesday 25 September 2024. The goal of this collaborative meeting is to…
The Common English Forum is a body which exists to consider matters of current interest in English studies both in schools and universities. It has recently devised a manifesto for English, which we are pleased to share below as a co-signatory of the manifesto. We thank all involved for giving their time so generously in…
The Working Group on GCSE English Reform was set up by the English Association and University English in response to very widespread disquiet in the discipline about the current GCSE provision. The group is made up of secondary school teachers, academics from university Departments of English, university Departments of Education and educational consultants. The Group has published…