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Dates coming up
20th-24th October 2008 National Schools Film Week (England, Northern Ireland and Wales), 3rd-7th November (Scotland)
Future dates
September 2009 First teaching of revised GCSEs (excluding English and English Literature, which start in September 2010).
Things worth knowing
Everybody Writes, a new site offering ideas and resources to get pupils excited about writing, is now live. Run by Booktrust and the National Literacy Trust, it’s about exploring writing beyond the classroom.
http://www.everybodywrites.org.uk
Win £2,000 worth of reading materials
The National Year of Reading has launched an Autumn Challenge for schools. Run Reading for Pleasure events and activities this term, write about them and upload your article. Find out more.
The renewed Framework for secondary English, based on the new curriculum, is available online.
New GCSE specs for first teaching in 2009 (excluding English and English Literature) are available online: AQA / OCR / Edexcel / WJEC.
What’s on
Terrestrial TV and radio
Little Dorrit
First in a new 14-part adaptation of Dickens’ powerful story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London, adapted by Andrew Davies.
Thursdays and Sundays
8:00pm BBC1
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967 adaptation of Hardy’s classic novel.
Saturday 8th November
1:45am ITV1
From Here to Eternity
Multi-Oscar-winning Second World War drama.
Sunday 9th November
2:25pm Channel 5
A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain
Dramatisation of the life of Vera Brittain, a young woman who lived through the First World War and went on to write the autobiography Testament of Youth.
Sunday 9th November
3:50pm BBC1
Key Stage 3 Curriculum Bites
Unit for younger secondary students covering key writing skills across the curriculum, with contributions from well-known personalities and experts.
Tuesday 11th November
4:00am BBC2
Media Studies
Two programmes for GCSE Media Studies students: ‘The Life and Times of Radio One’ and ‘Reading Media Texts’.
Friday 14th November
4:00am BBC2
BBC TV
ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5
Learning Curve
Libby Purves’ education show.
Monday 27th October; Monday 3rd November
20:30 BBC Radio 4
Portraits of Progress – Back on Track: KS3 English
Friday 7th November
10:30am Teachers TV
teachers.tv programmes are repeated at different times and are also available online
Theatre
- A Doll’s House
14th May 2008 – 18th July 2009
Donmar Warehouse, London - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
15th January 2009 – 7th February 2009
Novello Theatre, London - A Taste of Honey
12th November 2008 – 6th December 2008
Royal Exchange, Manchester - An Inspector Calls
30th January -14th February 2009
Birmingham Repertory Theatre - As You Like It
27th February 2009 – 28th March 2009
Curve, Leicester - Death of a Salesman
31st October 2008- 29th November 2008
Theatre Royal (The Studio), York - Don John
12th December 2008 -
10th January 2009
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon - Hamlet
24th July – 15th November 2008
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
3rd December 2008 – 10 January 2009
Novello Theatre, London - King Lear
30th October -
29th November 2008
Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool - Look Back in Anger
6th March – 21st March 2009
Northern Stage, Newcastle - Love’s Labour’s Lost
2nd October – 15th November 2008
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon - Macbeth
Until 11th April 2009
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester - Measure for Measure
29th October – 23rd November 2008
Courtyard Theatre, London - Oedipus
8th October 2008 -
4th January 2009
National Theatre, London - Romeo and Juliet
25th-29th November 2008
The Crucible, Sheffield - The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe
26th November 2008 -
17th January 2009
Birmingham Repertory Theatre - The Taming of the Shrew
12th February – 7th March 2009
Novello Theatre, London - The Tempest
14th February – 14th March 2009
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon - ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore
20th November 2008 – 22nd November 2008
The Carriageworks Studio, Leeds - War Horse
25th September 2008 -
24th January 2009
National Theatre
Cinema
Festivals
Literary Festivals (British Council)
Book news
The Guardian’s children’s fiction prize has been won by Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Letting Go.
Read more
Recently published:
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Knife that Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
Bearkeeper by Josh Lacey
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
The Master of the Fallen Chairs by Henry Porter
Abela by Berlie Doherty
The Stone Testament by Celia Rees
