Celebrate Shakespeare in your school during Shakespeare Week – 20- 26th March 2023, with an interactive drama-based workshop, available to schools throughout the UK and beyond. Teacher CPD workshops also available! William Shakespeare is now firmly back on the national curriculum – but he’s never actually been away. Everyone knows his face and the names … Read More
Creative Literacy Workshops
Creative Literacy Programmes for Primary Schools
Experiential, exciting and empowering, our imaginative and cross-curricular approaches harness tried and trusted approaches from the worlds of drama, visual art and creative writing and are all rooted in the Curriculum. Approaches specifically developed to support EYFS – KS2 / P1 – P7 children in developing their reading and writing skills – and to boost … Read More
Creative Literacy Programmes for Primary Schools in Ireland
Creative Literacy Programmes for Primary Schools in Ireland including In-person and Live Streamed Poetry, Shakespeare and Creative Literacy workshops. We’ve adapted some of our most popular workshops to allow us to work safely with smaller groups, with no props / resources to handle – and in compliance with individual schools’ Covid-19 policies. The Great Grammar … Read More
Socially Distanced, Digital and Live Streamed Literacy Workshops for Secondary Schools – Winter Term 2021
Creativity is at the core of reading and writing, at the heart of speaking and listening. So our range of Creative Literacy programmes offers KS3 and 4 / S1 – S4 students opportunities to explore and experiment with words in different contexts. Experiential, exciting and empowering, our imaginative approaches harness tried and trusted approaches from … Read More
Family Literacy Workshop
We all know how much family support benefits children’s learning. So, our Family Literacy workshops have been specifically developed to gain and cement that support by offering a fun and friendly environment in which parents/carers work alongside their children on activities designed to highlight the joys to be found in books and stories! And, by … Read More
World Book Day – School Workshops, Assemblies and Author Visits for World Book Day 2019
Our World Book Day workshops, assemblies and author visits have been specially designed to help you and your pupils celebrate World Book Day 2019 by bringing your favourite books to life. No-one is ever too young, too old or too cool to enjoy a journey with books and stories, so our drama and visual arts workshops have … Read More
WWI Schools Play and Workshops – Living with the War
Living with the War is a schools’ play specifically designed to support the exploration of World War One at Key Stages 1 – 4. Available to schools across the UK, over 5,000 children and young people have taken part in our WWI Schools play and workshops over the last two years. Living with the War – … Read More
Poetry Workshops, Visits and Assemblies for Schools – National Poetry Day 2018
National Poetry Day is always one of our most enjoyable -and busiest – times of the year. This year it falls on October 4th – and we have a whole range of enjoyable and engaging Poetry workshops for you, all tied into the 2018 theme of “Change”. Longer workshops will also see pupils gaining experience … Read More
Children’s Book Week – School Workshops
Children’s Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes, wherever young readers and books connect! If you are looking for ways to … Read More
Case Study: World Book Day and Shaking Up Shakespeare
We first met the Beacon Primary in Liverpool when the school’s Assistant Headteacher booked onto one of our own Teacher CPD Days: Twenty Ways into Shakespeare. She clearly enjoyed – and valued – the experience, because, a little while later, we were invited to visit the school on World Book Day – to work with Years … Read More
New Resource! Maths and Literacy Learning Trails
Specifically designed to bring learning to life and give pupils exciting opportunities to practise and develop their skills, our Maths and Literacy Trails feature a wealth of engaging and meaningful activities. Perfect for outdoor spaces, they can be easily adapted for indoor use on rainy days – and have been developed with differentiation in mind. Although we … Read More
Case Study: Whose Story? History and Literacy at Holy Family Primary
Time travel, heroes and villians, and the Great Fire of London. It’s all been going on at Holy Family Primary school! Over the course of a term, we worked with all Year 1 and 2 pupils (and their teachers) at Holy Family Primary School to explore ways of melding two topics: ‘The Great Fire of … Read More
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