Pupils at Macaulay Church of England Primary School in Lambeth love to WRITE.
Everybody Writes Day - 24th October 2008
Of course you can hold your own Everybody Writes Day at any time of year - perhaps coinciding with an Arts Week or Summer Fair - but Friday 16th October 2009 offers a national focus for writing in schools. Plan to collapse the curriculum to enjoy a whole day of writing. Be sure to involve everyone in your school: all pupils, teachers, site managers and catering staff.
To start planning your own Everybody Writes Day:
- Download a PDF of the guide for primary schools or request a hard copy
- Download a PDF of the guide for secondary schools or request a hard copy
- Find advice on publicising your Everybody Writes Day
- Download the Everybody Writes Day logo
To find out what schools did for Everybody Writes Day 2008, watch a video clip of Macaulay Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day or a short film of how Oakwood Primary School planned its own Everybody Writes project. Get a quick insight into what a number of other primary and secondary schools did. Read an article from the Times newspaper on why Everybody Writes is effective in inspiring not only pupils, but teachers as well.
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Primary examples
- Reporting from the dinosaur dig
- Writing about local history
- Active writing day
- Reporting on an alien landing
Secondary examples
Writing schools
Macaulay CE Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day - Pupils and parents celebrate writing for one special day
