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Michael Rosen wins children's poetry award after battling Covid-19
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Poetry
  • Oct 11, 2021
Former Makar Liz Lochhead lashes out on the teaching of her work in schools and the 'absolute idiots' at the SQA
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Scotland Poetry Curriculum
  • Apr 27, 2021
Classroom magic through poetry: Kate Clanchy profile
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Poetry Writing
  • Nov 29, 2020
Scots teen wins global poetry competition with poem about exam stress
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Scotland Awards Poetry Exam stress
  • Oct 15, 2020
Scottish pupil's exam stress poem wins worldwide competition
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Competitions Poetry Scotland Exam stress
  • Oct 15, 2020
I tricked my students into writing poetry
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Poetry
  • Sep 21, 2020
GCSE English 2021: Unseen poetry still compulsory - AQA
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GCSEs English literature Poetry Curriculum
  • Sep 15, 2020
GCSE English 2021: Has poetry been dropped?
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Coronavirus Curriculum GCSEs English literature Poetry
  • Aug 10, 2020
The Guardian view on poetry in schools: don't let it go
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Poetry Curriculum English literature Subject choice Coronavirus
  • Aug 7, 2020
An ode to the poems almost foregone
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Poetry GCSE English literature Curriculum
  • Aug 7, 2020
Making poetry optional in GCSE English literature is out of tune with the times
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Poetry English literature Curriculum GCSEs Ofqual Subject choice
  • Aug 5, 2020
Pupils who avoid poetry will lose out in the long run
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GCSEs Poetry Narrow curriculum English literature Subject choice
  • Aug 5, 2020
GCSEs: Here's why you shouldn't give up on poetry
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Poetry English literature Curriculum GCSEs Coronavirus
  • Aug 4, 2020
Schools are given the OK to drop poetry from GCSE exams as syllabus is pared back
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Coronavirus Poetry Narrow curriculum GCSEs Exams
  • Aug 4, 2020
Poetry is a coronavirus casualty as GCSE exam pared back
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Coronavirus Exams GCSEs Poetry
  • Aug 4, 2020
Poem of the week: On First Knowing You’re a Teacher by Peter Kahn
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Teachers Poetry
  • Jul 20, 2020
#ProjectParadise: A group reading project
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Reading Poetry
  • Apr 20, 2020
Teacher who helps migrant children turn pain into prize poetry
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Poetry Migrants
  • Nov 5, 2019
Put down your mobile phones and learn poetry
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Poetry Technology
  • Jun 25, 2019
Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin
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Oxford University Poetry Professor
  • Jun 21, 2019
This much I know about…helping students avoid making nonsensical interpretations of poems
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Poetry
  • Jun 17, 2019
A few thoughts about teaching poetry
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Poetry
  • Jun 3, 2019
Oxford poetry professor contest kicks off amid growing controversy
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Oxford Poetry Competitions
  • May 23, 2019
Unseen poetry without the stress
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Poetry
  • Apr 14, 2019
Kate Clanchy: ‘Poetry makes children feel important, that they’re heard’
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Poetry
  • Mar 31, 2019
Planning primary poetry
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Poetry Primary Lesson preparation
  • Mar 27, 2019
'How writing poetry worked wonders for my wellbeing'
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Poetry
  • Feb 9, 2019
'Pretty aint it … Mrs Yonge said so': the changing face of teaching poetry
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Poetry GCSEs
  • Jan 22, 2019
The importance of poetry and reading between the lines | Letters
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Poetry Phonics Literacy Reading
  • Dec 14, 2018
Dear Damian Hinds, please stop wrecking poetry for children | Michael Rosen
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Poetry Assessment Curriculum
  • Nov 27, 2018
Sheffield’s first hip-hop poet laureate: 'gone are the days of tradition'
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Poetry Stereotypes Creative arts
  • Nov 23, 2018
BookTrust launches Under My Sky poetry competition
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Poetry Competitions
  • Nov 14, 2018
UK starts selection process for next Poet Laureate and announces competition to increase access to poetry for young people
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Poetry Competition
  • Nov 3, 2018
Sylvia Plath revealed as young people's top poet
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Poetry
  • Oct 4, 2018
The UKEdPodcast – Episode 28 – Poetry & writing for young people
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Poetry Creative writing
  • Oct 3, 2018
Memorising poetry: 5 tips to help pupils
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Drama Poetry GCSE
  • Sep 18, 2018
This much I know about…hay bales, Heaney and what to do before the sun sets
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Poetry
  • Aug 20, 2018
Students paint over Rudyard Kipling poem and replace it with Maya Angelou piece
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Racism Poetry University of Manchester
  • Jul 19, 2018
Manchester students scrub out Kipling poem over his ‘racism’
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University of Manchester Racism Poetry
  • Jul 19, 2018
Students reveal favourite poets
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Poetry English literature Secondary schools
  • Jul 4, 2018
GCSE Revision is Poetry: Intensity, hard work; and so much deep learning.
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GCSEs Poetry
  • May 27, 2018
Resurgent poetry makes longlist for prestigious children's books award
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Poetry Awards Literacy
  • Feb 15, 2018
Learning poetry by heart? It's just too tough for snowflake GCSE pupils
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GCSE Poetry Michael Gove
  • Feb 3, 2018
Poetry to sustain NQTs through chalkface highs and lows
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Scotland NQTs Poetry Unions
  • Nov 15, 2017
British schoolgirl named first non-Japanese winner of haiku contest
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Awards Poetry
  • Sep 1, 2017
The Rudyard Kipling revival: poet is no longer 'persona non grata', says biographer
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Telegraph Poetry Literature English
  • Jul 1, 2017
State schools mount charge of the poetry brigade
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Times Poetry State schools Culture
  • May 7, 2017
'Stone’ inspiration for Tower Poetry Awards 2017
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SecEd Awards Poetry
  • May 3, 2017

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