Blogs

Our blogs are written by various NLT staff on a wide range of literacy issues. We welcome your ideas and feedback, so please add your comments.

If you have any suggestions for blog topics that you would like to see our staff discuss please email us.

• 03May2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: How you write. Part One

  A National Literacy Trust blog by the Puffin author, Tom Palmer. It is aimed at schools. Over the next year Tom will do a weekly term-time blog about the writing of his new series, The Squad, talking about all the things it takes to write a book.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 15Apr2011
  Can literacy help us shape the future in Sheffield?

  Dr Sonia Sharp, Executive Director of Children’s Services in Sheffield, explains how the council is securing the building blocks for individual success and community prosperity by embedding literacy as a priority for the future.

  Posted by Sonia Sharp | 1 Comment

• 07Apr2011
  Social Mobility and Child Poverty

  Our Policy Adviser George Dugdale blogs on the two latest Government policy strategies on child poverty and social mobility.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 1 Comment

• 31Mar2011
  The EYFS review is exhilarating stuff

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas comments on Dame Tickell's Early Years Foundation Stage review.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 23Mar2011
  Budget 2011

  The National Literacy Trust reacts to the Budget announcement

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments

• 03Mar2011
  Announcing our new fundraising campaign

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas addresses our new fundraising challenge following the announcement of the 100% cut to our government funding.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 21Jan2011
  Removing Barriers to Literacy

  Ofsted's latest report has highlighted important mechanisms for ensuring success in literacy

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments

• 20Jan2011
  The outlook in 2011

  Deputy Director Abigail Moss takes a look at what the future means for the National Literacy Trust.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 0 Comments

• 21Dec2010
  Fellow charity Booktrust announces funding for all English bookgifting programmes to be cut by 100%

  The National Literacy Trust is very disappointed to hear that central funding for the book gifting initiatives of fellow literacy charity Booktrust has been discontinued.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 17Dec2010
  National Literacy Trust response to Radio 4's Today programme story on literacy results in schools

  Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove appeared on the Today programme talking about the most recent Key Stage 2 results for literacy. Here's the National Literacy Trust's response to the story.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments