This October, Oxford’s Science and Ideas Festival returns again. And so too does its annual writing contest. The IF Oxford 2020 Poetry of Science competition is open to budding young writers in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, at both primary and secondary...
Are we living in a dystopian universe? Maybe. Something about the ubiquity of email surveillance, deep-fake videos and uncontrolled rainforest fires is causing people to say that, yes, the world we live in now is as perplexing and corrupt as anything written by Orwell...
The organisation Global Acts of Unity (GAU) has launched a new poetry competition and it’s asking young people (aged 11-18) to enter by expressing what ‘unity’ means to them, for a chance to win £100 worth of vouchers and £500 worth of supplies for their school....
2020 marks 80 years since Allen Lane founded Puffin, the biggest children’s book publisher in the world. To celebrate this major anniversary, Puffin have announced an exciting series of activities to champion the power of reading and inspire children to dream big. The...
Since its launch in 2006, the micro-blogging site Twitter has greatly changed the dynamics between politicians and the general public. Once we would have depended on the media to glean what elected officials might be thinking or feeling. Now we can come close to...
In part one of this blog ( https://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk/blog/6-easy-ways-to-improve-your-writing-part-1/ ), I shared three of George Orwell’s ‘Six Elementary Rules for Writing’ and showed how you can use them to help improve your writing. Here, I’ll...
