Comprehensive resources

• Writing about local history
  
• Tell your story
  Scripting and producing a transition film from Year 6 to Year 7
• Reading the signs
  Year 8 and Year 9 groups creatively “re-sign” their schools in a writing, poetry and D&T project

Case studies

• Words and Music
  Children create a wide variety of written and visual work using recorded music as a stimulus
  Yenton Primary School
• Who Are We?
  Developing children’s awareness of their identity through creative writing
  Brookvale Primary School
• Walsall Residency
  A four-day poetry workshop aimed at improving the writing skills and confidence of British-Asian secondary students
  Joseph Leckie Community Technology College
• The Great Greet Write!
  Writing inspired by a theatre visit to a primary school
  Greet Primary School
• The FOUND project: collaborative fiction using new media
  Collaborative fiction using new media
  Queensbridge School, Birmingham and if:book London
• The close encounters project
  Using experiences to improve writing
  Grangehurst Primary School
• Reading the signs (Year 9)
  Year 9 students create an LED sign for their library and write their own original poetry to be displayed on it
  St Alban’s CE Specialist Engineering College
• Reading the signs (Year 8)
  Year 8 students re-sign their library with their own original poetry and writing
  Turves Green Boys’ Technology and Humanities College

Brief project summaries

• Writing clubs
  Trialling a short series of extra-curricular writing clubs to motivate and support targeted children
  Holyhead Secondary School
• Writing clubs
  A short series of extra-curricular writing clubs to motivate and support targeted children.
  St Mary's Church of England Primary School
• Raising boys achievement in literacy
  UKLA and PNS report
  PNS/ UKLA/ Essex LEA/ Medway LEA
• Giant’s embrace
  Theatre and drama as a stimulus for writing
  Pegasus Primary School, Big Brum Theatre in Education
• Festival of Light Writing Project
  
  Colmore Infant School
• D&T and writing
  KS1 & KS2: Primary schools investigating cross-curricular benefits to writing
  Newtown Church of England Primary School, Woodfield Infant School, St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School, St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Shropshire
• Birmingham words
  Online magazine for creative reading and writing
  Birmingham Words