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Here are some free live book readings for World Book Day courtesy of Whistles.  Tomorrow (Thursday March 4th) at 4pm on Instagram you can...

This year's World Book Day takes place on Thursday 4th March. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World...

Did you know that turning on the (same language) subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of a child...

I have written about productions from the Unicorn Theatre before - namely their brilliant theatrical reading of Roald Dahl's The Twits...

This week is Children's Mental Health Week (1-7 February 2021). This year's theme is 'Express Yourself', and Place2Be (the children's...

The free downloadable storytelling pack, from the National Centre for Creative Writing, is crammed with tips and activities for engaging...

As part of their offering to support Lockdown Learning, the BBC are showing their series of CBBC Celebrity Supply Teacher.Each episode...

The Virtual School Library has been developed by the Oak National Academy in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. Every week a...

If you had fun reading Susie Dent's alternative Christmas dictionary article over Christmas with your family, you might want to take some...

For my 13th birthday my mum bought me the album  The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. This was my first...

New from the BBC to support lockdown learning from 11th January is a combination of educational content from BBC Bitesize online, CBBC TV...

An incredible all-star cast have come together to create a unique digital retelling of JM Barrie’s enchanting classic, Peter Pan, in...

Stories from the Woodshed is a new, weekly online storytelling series coming from The Story Museum in Oxford, UK: the most amazing,...

The IF Oxford Science & Ideas Festival is back - and this year (like many other things) it is online from 1-31 October - and anyone...

If you missed Roald Dahl’s Story Day this year - it was on September 13th, and if he was still alive he'd have been 103!   But it's not...

Sit down and get ready for a treat from the good people at the Unicorn Theatre - a new theatrical reading of Roald Dahl's book The Twits....