by Administrator | Oct 20, 2021 | News & Press
Pupils from Round Hill Primary School have been learning all about Black History this month, thanks to a project organised by Broxtowe Borough Council in partnership with Nottingham City of Literature. As part of the project, Year 5 have been writing letters around...
by Administrator | Feb 15, 2019 | News & Press
Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature is delighted to welcome 14 Young UNESCO Ambassadors to its new Young City Reads programme. This new programme has been made possible through a funding award of £59,398 from Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants...
by Administrator | Dec 10, 2018 | Readers & Writers
It has been said that children have lost the language of nature and the book ‘The Lost Words’ was written to plug that gap and get children back in tune with the natural world. Using the book as inspiration, I introduced a nature club as an after school activity to...
by Administrator | Jun 15, 2018 | News & Press
Lost Words – words which bring to life our natural world, but which are disappearing from children’s dictionaries, and from their awareness – need to be saved. This is what the book The Lost Words sets out to do. Writer Robert Macfarlane has chosen words, such as...
by Administrator | Mar 5, 2018 | Quick Reads
In 2010 The Guardian revealed that Nottingham had one of the worst reading and writing rates in the UK. By age eleven, 15% of boys and 10% of girls were two stages below their expected reading level in school. Children in the East Midlands performed particularly...
