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Examined poetry – the barbaric yawp

February 7, 2018January 9, 2020Fiona Lloyd-Williams

Jill Carter shares her tips and thoughts about how to energise poetry lessons.  Ask students if they like poetry and often the answer is a resounding ‘no’. Boys can be especially clear about this. I hear comments such as “I just don’t get it” and “It’s so boring”. It can be viewed as the domain […]

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2016: Space for the Odyssey?

July 7, 2016January 23, 2018Oxford Primary 1 Comment

Last month, I was lucky enough to speak at OUP’s For the Love of Reading: Passing on the Passion conference. It was a wonderful occasion that brought teachers, authors and researchers together to talk about reading. I left with my brain fizzing with ideas, inspired to try the raft of new things I’d learnt from […]

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TreeTops Greatest Stories: The Pied Piper

May 19, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Our new TreeTops Greatest Stories series has just published! Each of the 35 titles is beautifully retold and illustrated by some of our most popular authors and illustrators. We’re also fortunate to have best-selling author Michael Morpurgo as Series Editor and Kimberley Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature at Newcastle University, as Series Advisor. Over the next few weeks, […]

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Christmas is coming … Tips to keep you and your class going until the end of term!

November 26, 2015December 21, 2017Oxford Primary

It’s the end of the autumn term and you’re beyond exhausted. It’s dark when you arrive at school and dark when you leave. Glitter coats every part of your body and you’ve been listening to strained versions of In the Bleak Midwinter since October. What’s more, your carefully constructed plans for the last few days […]

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The Christmas truce…emotional connections.

December 16, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

Research completed by the National Literacy Trust published on 1st December has provoked discussion. They discovered that 24% of boys read stories on screen longer than when they read printed books, compared with 12% of girls. There was a lot of discussion about this in the press, but everybody I heard talking about it said that […]

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Tower Poetry – supporting young poets

December 8, 2014April 23, 2015Oxford English Team

 A guest post from Kathryn Grant at: The story of Tower Poetry started in 2000 when Christopher Tower, an Old Member of Christ Church, University of Oxford, left a large legacy to enhance the study of his two passions, poetry in the English language and Greek mythology. The gift was split into four funds – […]

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