Tag: Education

  • Joy Through The Letterbox

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    With the decline of personal sent mail, children sadly do not often feel the simple thrill of receiving something through the letterbox. Subscription boxes have reimagined that excitement, transforming it into a regular ritual that blends learning, creativity and anticipation. For parents, they offer something equally valuable: a gentle, ready-made way to encourage reading, spark…

  • The Changing Classroom

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    Education systems are navigating a period of notable change. The digitisation of the past two decades has reshaped classrooms, offering new ways to access information and deliver lessons. At the same time, it has raised questions about how digital tools affect learning, concentration, and development. As schools have rapidly adopted these technologies, there is a…

  • The National Year Of Reading

    Find out about the government’s 12-month initiative to get more young people reading. Despite there being more books, magazines and newspapers, available on more platforms than ever, there’s a fundamental problem with reading – not enough people are doing it. And crucially, not enough young people are doing it. Research by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) has…

  • Return To Education – Learning on Paper

    As students prepare to move away to college or university, we look at the benefits of learning from printed text books. Right now, parents up and down the country will be scouring the aisles of IKEA, picking out the ideal cutlery set or perfect pillow for their child as they prepare to move away to…

  • 5 Reasons To Love Libraries

    When Did You Last Visit Your Local Library? Since the advent of the internet and search engines, which have given us the ability to explore endless content from all around the world from the comfort of our own home, library visitor numbers have fallen dramatically. You might ask: Does it matter? Are we missing out?…

  • National Novel Writing Month

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    This November, why not join hundreds of thousands of would-be, and actual, novelists around the world participating in National Novel Writing Month? If like many of us, you have always felt you’ve got a best-seller lurking somewhere inside, then this November could be the time to finally put pen to paper. The concept of National Novel…

  • The Plantable Papers Of Japan

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    What do you do with your newspaper once you’ve finished reading it? A Japanese publisher of ‘The Mainichi Shimbusha’ newspaper, has devised a ‘green’ newspaper initiative meaning that people can plant the paper wherever it ends up. Why Was It Invented? If you have been to a city centre in the last few months you have probably…

  • Summer School Comic Book Initiative Launched To Help Children Catch Up

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    The National Literacy Trust and sustainable paper brand REY® have announced the delivery of 10,000 free literacy resource packs to Year 6 and Year 7 students across the UK. This forms part of the National Literacy Trust’s summer offer to support pupils as they transition from primary to secondary school. The REY activity packs are…

  • The National Literacy Trust share reading tips for children

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    The National Literacy Trust have created some summer reading tips for families. They teamed up with Puffin to ask children about their reading during lock-down. Here are their 5 top tips to keep your children reading… Make time for reading Children said that time away from school and social activities during lockdown has given them more time to enjoy…

  • Why digital content could be bad news for the brain?

    A steady diet of digital content is turning us into a world of skim-readers, which is bad news for our brains. Here’s a stat to mull over: the average human mind will consume around 34GB of data every single day. That data comes in the form of TV, music, adverts, videos, emails, websites and apps.…