CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)

CLPE’s unique and much-praised CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme brings the poets and poetry on each year’s shortlist into classrooms across the UK. It invites teachers to choose one of the collections shortlisted for the CLiPPA and share it with their pupils, using dedicated teaching sequences produced by CLPE including videos of the poets performing their work. Children choose a favourite poem from a shortlisted collection to work up into a performance, which is recorded and sent to a CLPE judging panel. Winning schools are invited to perform live at the award ceremony. CLPE estimate that over 40,000 children were involved in the CLiPPA in 2024 and that even more will participate in 2025. The 2025 CLiPPA Shadowing will open on 23 April, with a live announcement beamed into schools as the shortlisted poets are revealed. The 2025 award ceremony will be held at the National Theatre on Friday 20 June. For updates on everything CLiPPA, sign up to our mailing list here: https://lnkd.in/eau8a-NP

We are delighted to announce that Roger McGough will chair the 2025 judging panel for the UK’s foremost award for published poetry for children. 💫 He will be joined on the panel by Lucy Bannerman, children’s books editor The Times; playwright and representative of creative writing and educational charity First Story, Annette Brook; teacher Saira Bano; and fellow poet Matt Goodfellow, who won the CLiPPA in 2024 with his acclaimed verse novel, The Final Year. Teachers can get involved by signing up to our CLiPPA 2025 mailing list, where you'll be the first to receive everything you need to get involved in the Shadowing Scheme and book tickets for your class to the Award Show at the National Theatre this summer. Register: https://lnkd.in/eau8a-NP

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded an Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) grant to evaluate the impact of our Power of Reading training and resources on Year 5 pupils’ writing. We are looking for 140 schools to take part in this heavily subsidised trial. Training will be be delivered by the CLPE team in Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham and independently evaluated by a dedicated research team at Manchester Metropolitan University. Our Power of Reading programme supports schools to develop a high-quality literacy curriculum which fosters a whole school love of reading and writing and raises achievement in literacy. To find out more visit: https://lnkd.in/eibmxzze

We are getting ready to kick-off CLiPPA 2025 with our 2024 winner, Matt Goodfellow reading 'Summat I worry about' from 'The Final Year' illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton and published by OTTER-BARRY BOOKS LIMITED. Established in 2003, the CLiPPA highlights the best new poetry for children. Past winners include Michael Rosen, John Agard, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom and former Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho. Teachers can get involved by signing up to our CLiPPA 2025 mailing list, where you'll be the first to receive everything you need to get involved in the Shadowing Scheme and book tickets to the Award Show at the National Theatre this summer. Register: https://lnkd.in/eau8a-NP

So excited for this wonderful new CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) course in which teachers can help children to explore identity and belonging through poetry. With Michael Rosen and Ben Ballin. Joy.

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Still time to book onto my Literacy Leader Forum, either online this Thursday or at CLPE this Friday. FREE for our School Members. We’ll be summarising our feedback to DfE on the Curriculum and Assessment Review and then exploring how we can draw on evidence to best support speech and language development, including the continued impact of Power of Reading in this area. I’ll also be giving you a inside info into a special collaboration with poet Michael Rosen and geography consultant, Ben Ballin, and how your school can get involved…Exciting!

For 2 decades, Power of Reading has played a pivotal role in transforming literacy education & the impact has been profound: fostering a love for reading, writing & achievement. If your school is looking for a training programme to improve their literacy practice and help support attainment as well as reading and writing for pleasure, find out more about how the Power of Reading can help you to do exactly this. Our next training programme starts on the 4th February and is available in-person at our Centre in London or online. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ettWpcJ2 Thank you Ronald Ross School, Media Trust & Mercer's Company for supporting the making of this film.

We are delighted to announce the publication of our 2023-24 Impact Report. Our latest report measures our growth and impact on literacy learning and teaching across 2023 - 2024. In the academic year 2023-2024: - 100% of respondents rated in-person training as effective and 97% of respondents rated online training as effective; - 100% of respondents would recommend our in-person training to someone else while 98% of respondents would recommend our online training to someone else. Read more: https://ow.ly/rgnO50UuzqX

We're hiring! We are looking for a new part-time Finance Manager to work as part of the CLPE team. The Finance Manager will ensure all financial aspects of the charity run smoothly and efficiently using effective financial planning, monitoring, forecasting and reporting. Hybrid working available.    Find out more and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/dKn2zPPK