This week the Everybody Writes team are out and about, presenting our Guide for local authorities to Primary National Strategies Consultants around the country. Yesterday I was in Peterborough talking to a group about running Everybody Writes projects over a number of schools, and over the next couple of days I’ll be in Kensington and Maida Vale, and Allison is off spreading the word in Bristol and Birmingham. It’s a busy week, and we’re delighted to be reaching people who may have come across Everybody Writes before but aren’t as familiar with how they could think about involving a number of schools in celebrating writing across a wide area.

The BETT show last week was an interesting event and I enjoyed talking to the teachers I met there about Everybody Writes and also the Perform A Poem website, an e-safe site hosted by London Grid for Learning, where London schools can safely share children’s poetry performances. It’s a great site with lots of ideas for running poetry workshops in schools and tips for teachers as well as video of children performing their own poetry. Highly reccommended - have a look and see what you think!

I’m also getting together new content for next month’s web update and so far have some fabulous new case studies to go online, including a great graphic novels project with secondary students. It reminded me how much I’ve always wanted to create a graphic novel myself - the young people’s artwork is truly inspiring. Watch this space for some impressive writing and art crossover!