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  1. Coming up! Shakespeare Schools Festival

     

    Shakespeare Schools Festival is the largest youth drama festival in the UK, giving primary, secondary and special schools the chance to perform abridged Shakespeare plays in professional theatres across the UK every autumn. This year, SSF are working with 1,000 schools who will perform in one of 120 theatres across the UK. the festival is backed […]

  2. War Horse show goes on the road

    War Horse show goes on the road  

    The National Theatre’s learning Programme manager Melanie Whitehead told LESLEY FINLAY about what audiences can expect from the War Horse tour...

  3. Let’s get digital

     

    Teacher EDNA HOBBS has a tip for fellow English (and drama) teachers...

  4. National Youth Theatre grows up

    National Youth Theatre grows up  

    The National Youth Theatre's artistic director and CEO PAUL ROSEBY describes the work of this new company...

  5. Pass it on: September 2013

    Pass it on: September 2013  

    The buzz word in the stem world is all about code: educators and industry leaders are realising research and development is being inhibited because students are not being taught coding. Many students are not even taught how to use PowerPoint, Publisher or Word to their full capacity. Coding is the language of computers and will […]

  6. Noticeboard: September 2013

    Noticeboard: September 2013  

    A group of enterprising English teachers fed up with spending enormous amounts of time researching approaches to work have set up their own resources website called www.teachliterature.co.uk.  Nicky Madigan told Ink Pellet why they had set up the site: ‘We found that we were spending enormous amounts of time researching authors and contextual information, devising […]

  7. Brecht’s Arturo Ui opens

     

    You cannot beat a bit of of Bertolt Brecht. Chichester Festival Theatre’s acclaimed production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens at the Duchess Theatre in London on September 25  and features Henry Goodman reprising his award-winning performance in the title role. The play is set in Chicago during the Great Depression – the […]

  8. Wicked Young Writers Award

    Wicked Young Writers Award  

    We all have a story to tell or a poem to sing. The problem is to find the voice to sing it,’ says Michael Morpurgo, chair judge of the Wicked Young Writers’ award. The competition, in its fourth year, is now open for entries. It was established to link the important messages of Wicked with […]

  9. Alan Gibbons: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

    Alan Gibbons: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner  

    Student LINUS HEAD got the chance to interview award-winning author Alan Gibbons who paid a visit to his school Lychett Minster in Dorset....

  10. Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights  

    LESLEY FINLAY enjoyed her first experience of theatre on a cliff edge...