When did you first know you were a writer? I think it was when I started a performance poetry course at Battersea Arts Centre with poetry organisation Apples and Snakes. There I worked with amazing poets like Aoife Mannix and Jacob Sam La Rose and Francesca...
Book Clubs in Schools promotes character education through peer-led Primary School and Secondary School book clubs. Our work impacts on the children involved by helping them to build character skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, resilience, perseverance and confidence too. We do this by very...
Here at Book Clubs in Schools we believe that every student should lead a happy life, acknowledging that a healthy state of mind is key to this has never been more important. There are a variety of activities that can help us to feel good...
When a child walks into the playground for the very first time they enter into their very own age of discovery. Between the ages of 5 and 11 we are filled with rampant curiosity and a thirst to explore the unknown. But that’s not all...
When did you first know you were a writer? I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was ten years old. I read James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and was captivated with the idea of writing stories. But I didn't know I was a writer until I...
View from the School Coordinator In September, 25 Year 12 students volunteered to become Book Club Leaders. After a short training session, the students were provided with the books and resources and the discussion questions for each week. Working with the Head of English, we decided...
Empathy is one of those qualities that is so drastically important, and yet all too often overlooked. As Alfred Alder once so beautifully put it, ‘Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of...
I had lunch with a writing friend a few weeks ago. She said I had once told her: “I don’t have writer’s block, I have life block.” I’ve had people misquote me before - sometimes horrifyingly so. But as it happens, my friend was spot on. I...
There is a proven link between low literacy levels and poverty. Children eligible for free school meals are less likely than their more affluent peers to read well. And this lack of basic literacy skills is a primary cause of these children remaining in poverty as adults, with...
28 March 2019 Book Clubs in Schools Celebrates Its 5th Birthday Book Clubs in Schools (BCiS) celebrates five years of delivering a cross-age peer mentoring programme to primary and secondary school students across the UK. The scheme helps young people develop a lifelong love of reading, character...