✏️ Deputy Director

Help us start the next chapter at our creative writing centre.

🔺£50,000 pro-rata
🔺Hoxton, London
🔺0.8 (4 days per-week)
🔺Deadline: Wed 24th April 2024

Find out more: bit.ly/3IQWq7b

#artsjobs #charityjobs

As the ⁦Oracy Education Commission⁩ begins its work, here’s my latest ‘Commissioner Conversation’ - with ⁦Sonia⁩, on why oracy matters: open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJKkQr…

Most exciting find at Bologna, this debut picture book from the amazing Sara Stanley and Vivian Schwarz. A book about displacement, community, eternal hope told with tenderness. Sara is a new and much-needed voice in children’s books. Publishing in August.

✏️ Become a time traveller with us this weekend.

🎈Hoxton Mini-Fair
📅 Saturday 13th April 2024
⏰ 11am - 4pm

Join our drop-in workshop all about a future Hoxton. Suitable for families and children but open to anyone!

Congratulations to @indigenouslf on winning this year's prestigious #AstridLindgrenMemorialAward ! We are delighted to be in the company of such a fantastic global shortlist of 248 candidates! Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ow.ly/Sqg950Rbg97
#ALMA2024

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📢Literacy in Primary Classrooms conference

📅⌚ 8:45am, Saturday, 4 May.

Inspire children to read and write for pleasure.

🗣️ Keynote speaker: Professor Teresa Cremin

Cost: £10.

✍️Book here👉 bit.ly/teaching_liter…

#NEUPrimaryLiteracy

He's only gone and done it! Paul Jackson has just completed the 2024 Brighton Marathon in an impressive 3:52:22.

He has been raising money for Gorsefield Rural Studies & Outdoor Activity Centre to create much needed inspiring experiences for children.

Please donate at:
peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/pa…

We've had so many enquiries about Take One Book recently, so we thought we'd run a free webinar open to all primary teachers. The session includes an overview of the resource with teaching ideas. Open to primary teachers in the UK and internationally. Free book and sequence for…

One month to go until the National Education Union and UKLA's joint Literacy Conference. Tickets are flying - don't miss your spot!

bit.ly/teaching_liter…

Can't wait to hear from Jon Biddle, Rebecca Simpson-Hargreaves, Dr Sabine Little, Nicole Gurvidi, Teresa Cremin and many more of our fab speakers!

I’m back on here on a regular basis now. Will be posting (and reposting) practical ideas for teaching writing. Will also be adding details of the range of ebooks I’ve been researching over the last five years. The first is released in April 👍

Just in case you’re still worried:

We listened actively, took turns and projected our voice when talking about friendship and feelings.
Tower Hamlets Oracy Hub Voice 21 Oracy

📢ANNOUNCEMENT!📢
To highlight the importance of poetry in children's developing literacy we have again partnered with Macmillan Children's Books to offer 10 schools a FREE place on our Teaching Poetry with Kate Wakeling course!

Find out more & apply here: ow.ly/tE9A50R1Wsf

Exploring electricity this half term in Reception #eyfs #eyfs display

Photos from last week's Future Sounds 2024 Final are now live on our Flickr: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBiNd7 The Rhythm Studio

Thank you again to our judges for joining us!
Dan Rothman
Jasmine Igoe Three Six Zero
Tim Bran
Lucy Noble

🎉 WE DID IT

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our Big Give #Artsforimpact campaign. We raised a whopping £12,850 plus Gift Aid.

Here's to the power of creativity and imagination and the difference you've come together to make this week!

THANK YOU

✏️ Join Our Team

We are looking for an ambitious, organised and motivated Deputy Director to help lead our organisation.

£50,000 pro-rata
Hoxton, London
0.8 (4 days per-week)

🔺 Deadline: Wed 24th April 2024

Find out more: bit.ly/3IQWq7b

#artsjobs #charityjobs

✨THANK YOU SO MUCH!✨

We have reached our target of £10,000 to fund bold, exciting, creative projects for our young writers.

Our #BigGive campaign still has 4 more days left. So please, if you can, keep giving & help us go even further.

➡️ bit.ly/3TRjjOp

An #informative session delivered by Rebecca Timmins on the 'different ways of structuring #meetings , & how listening should ignite thinking'. Attendees left with 'lots of practical activities that could be implemented in their own meetings'.