Lots for your kids to do in the holidays
Weeks of school holidays stretch ahead. How do you entertain, occupy, amuse and perhaps stretch the little darlings, especially when you also...
Weeks of school holidays stretch ahead. How do you entertain, occupy, amuse and perhaps stretch the little darlings, especially when you also...
Roundhouse Summer Projects. Credit: Ellie Pinney Nobody uses the word ‘education’ at the Roundhouse. “Work by, with and for 11-25 year olds...
The Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme is aiding more aspiring directors to gain experience and find their feet. SUSAN ELKIN discovers more....
I’ve been studying the new GCSE drama specifications, once called syllabi, and talking to drama teachers. There has been widespread misunderstanding about...
SUSAN ELKIN is enchanted by the multi-faceted and prolific writer Adèle Geras, still writing – at her own pace – at the...
The wind seems to be howling and there’s a lot of noise, shouting, atmospheric writhing and a sense of danger. Then Marcus...
English literature courses have become exercises in box-ticking that leave no room to appreciate the “real meat” of a text, says former...
Learning to decipher the squiggles on the page well enough to pass the key stage 1 Sats does not make you a...