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...
For almost all students, some element of writing is a non-negotiable part of your course. Whether you’re engaged in distance learning or physically attend a college or university, your writing is likely to be read, scrutinised and marked. In fact, the way you write,...
Films can inspire and make us think. Therefore it should be no surprise that there are a few that could help the struggling student. We all hit motivational brick walls at some point, when we just can’t be bothered to think about what we have to do, let alone pick up...
