Teachers, your insights are crucial! Join the national survey by IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society & University of Oxford on how British Empire history is taught in English secondary schools. Your experience matters! Survey takes 15-35 mins, deadline ext April 30. Share widely! Link: redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33…

Calling interested English teachers to participate in PhD research on the metaphors we use to conceptualise subject English. NATE Team English English & Media Ctr UKLA English Association would really appreciate a retweet. For more information, DM or email.

In the April emag & online you'll find details of our annual Close Reading Competition, launching now, closing 17 May. We're keen to get students' own responses, not taught ones, so all it needs is for you to share this with students & suggest they enter. englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazines/

Calling MFL, EAL and English teachers! Bring creative translation into the classroom this summer with the #SSTPoetryPrize2024 . Translate ANY poem from ANY language, or a Portuguese poem for the #PortugueseSpotlight . Free entry for all UK and Irish schools, for pupils of all ages!

Don’t be a fool! Get your submissions in before April 1st.
NATE Teacher Writing competition - in partnership with Arvon Arvon
nate.org.uk/nates-2024-tea…
NATE’s summer conference 2024 – opportunity to submit a proposal
nate.org.uk/nates-summer-2…
Deadline March 31st.

It’s #PoetryByHeart deadline day. Get your entries in by midnight. Remember, we’re here to help if you get stuck.

Congratulations authors and illustrators shortlisted for the #UKLA24 Book Awards 7-10+ Usborne Publishing Firefly Press uclan publishing Scholastic UK Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

The Ofsted English education subject report – a NATE response

The external factors impacting English teaching
Reading & Literature
Writing
Spoken Language/Oracy
Curriculum & Assessment
Teachers’ CPD
Ofsted’s research methods & report credibility

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Many congratulations to all the exceptional writers and scholars on our book prize short-list
Noreen Masud Doug Battersby
Robert Stagg Natalie Ferris
Alison Knight
We're delighted to announce that the prize this year goes to Noreen's Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language

Teaching English - Issue 34 (Spring 2024) 
Post-16 English - Issues and Approaches. Available to download for all NATE members (print copies arriving soon too for eligible members). Further details here: mailchi.mp/nate.org.uk/te…. Not yet a member? Join here nate.org.uk/join-nate/

This afternoon I’ve been re-reading ‘Studying Fiction’, a book I wrote with Dr. Jess Mason a few years ago. We ended with this coda/set of reflections-interesting given recent discussions on here around RfP, ‘literary merit’, and so on. Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation NATE Team English

#WorkingTogether in English & Maths (3 April, 14:00 - 17:30)
Explore connections across the curriculum, enriching your teaching & your students’ experience.
Join us for 2 very special sessions designed to get English teachers & Maths teachers talking.😊 englishassociation.ac.uk/working-togeth…

FREE sponsored places the UKLA International conference July 5th- July 7th! All teachers who are members of the UKLA and NEU can apply!
Deadline March 18th. Successful applicants notified w/b March 25th
application form @MollyhallNEU loom.ly/CLwAW2U

Opportunity for English teachers in the London area to be part of a research study on decolonising the secondary English curriculum. Involves 3 remote interviews and one London CPD workshop. Contact Katherine Gordon to find out more at [email protected]. Please share.

⏰The clock is ticking ... the deadline for entries to the 2024 #PoetryByHeart competition is midnight 28 March. Don't miss the chance to perform at our spectacular Grand Finale at Shakespeare’s Globe. Any questions ✉️ [email protected] or ☎️ 0117 905 5338 Mon-Fri 9.00am-5.30pm

What does it mean to have a diverse curriculum? A Decolonising the Discipline roundtable (8 April 2024, 15:30 - 17:30) | The English Association englishassociation.ac.uk/what-does-it-m…

Opportunity for English teachers in the London, Essex or Herts to be involved with a researcher seeking to try out approaches to decolonisation in the classroom - details below. @natefeed English Association UKLA Team English English & Media Ctr. Please re-tweet!

1 week to go ! Our Schools' Broadcast of Macbeth (2023) will be available to watch 18 - 22 March🗡️

UK schools and home educators can register for free ➡️rsc.org.uk/learn/schools-…

It’s #WorldBookDay !🥳
We’re putting children’s voices first. They’re asking us to let go of pressure & expectations to give them a choice – and a chance – to grow up with the life-changing benefits of #readingforpleasure . Show us how you're reading for fun, your way! #ReadYourWay

To celebrate World Book Day UK 📚, NATE is pleased to provide a range of articles on reading for pleasure, book reviews and recommended links. We hope that this provides some inspiration and tips for promoting reading within and beyond your classroom. mailchi.mp/nate.org.uk/wo…