The Wordsworth Trust has invested £6.2 million into Reimagining Wordsworth, an educational project which aims to bring Wordsworth’s story into the 21st century.
Jade Cuttle graduated from the University of Cambridge with First-Class Honours in Literature, going on to undertake an MA in Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Selected by Ledbury Poetry Festival as an Emerging Critic and winning Best Reviewer (Editor's Choice) in the 2018 Saboteur Awards, Jade has written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The Times & The Sunday Times, the Observer, BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, The Poetry Review and elsewhere. She is Deputy Poetry Editor at Ambit and judging the Costa Book Awards 2019.
Anthology for a Planet in Peril: Young and Old Tackle Climate Change Through Poetry
The anthology is highly educational, seeking to engage readers as young as eight years old, and is now set to tour schools and create a forum to empower young people to speak out against climate change.
The First School in Britain to Abolish Summer Holidays
One school has become the first in Britain to break away from the traditional holiday and term time system, giving parents the freedom to take their kids out for six weeks whenever they want.
Black History Month, October 2019
The month was first launched in London in the 1980s to challenge racist attitudes, to educate the public about British history not being taught in schools, and to recognise the valuable contributions that people of African and Caribbean backgrounds have made to this country.
Are Language Subjects In Crisis?
Whilst 76% of students took a GCSE language in 2002, only 46% did so last year.
Simon Armitage named UK’s Poet Laureate
A Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds, and studied by millions as part of the national curriculum in schools, Armitage has no fewer than 28 collections of poetry to his name.
50 Years of the UEA’s Creative Writing Course
An unrivalled number of alumni across all strands of the UEA’s Creative Writing course have achieved literary success since graduating, including Ian McEwan.