Children's & Schoolbooks News
12 Jan 2012
Oxford Owl – free parent support website wins a BETT award
Oxford Owl - the most popular teacher-endorsed website that gives parents advice on how to help their child’s learning – has now also become a BETT award winner!
17 Dec 2010
Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight
The Demon Father has escaped from hell and walks among us, his trident symbol branded
into the earth in countries all over the world. A scorching beacon. A call to arms. A sign that war is coming.
16 Nov 2010
60% of schools that deliver outstanding reading results use
the Ruth Miskin approach
A new HMI report was published on Sunday 14th November entitled ‘Reading by six. How the best schools do it’. It is based on case studies of twelve schools that are all judged by Ofsted to be outstanding in the teaching of phonics.
24 Jun 2010
Oxford University Press extends its reach into the Primary maths market
Oxford University Press (OUP) announces that it has completed the acquisition of Numicon Ltd. Numicon provides a multi-sensory primary maths teaching programme that engages learners with its visual, auditory and kinaesthetic approach.
27 May 2010
New GCSE exam helps students learn how to see through the spin
Rather than decide on future leaders by the colour of their tie, a new GCSE exam unit will teach future voters to make a hard-headed analysis of spoken language used in the media, e.g. the carefully crafted rhetoric peddled by political spin doctors.
23 Apr 2010
2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist bucks the vampire trend. Eight compelling survival stories bring reality to the fore.
Announced this morning, this year’s CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist puts eight page- turning novels about survival in the spotlight. Their stories deal with some of life’s most challenging issues in an intelligent and highly accessible way, offering heroes and heroines that young readers can relate to and a life affirming sense of hope.
23 Apr 2010
2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist bucks the vampire trend. Eight compelling survival stories bring reality to the fore.
Announced this morning, this year’s CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist puts eight page- turning novels about survival in the spotlight. Their stories deal with some of life’s most challenging issues in an intelligent and highly accessible way, offering heroes and heroines that young readers can relate to and a life affirming sense of hope.
25 Mar 2010
OUP clean sweep at the BA's annual Academic, Professional & Specialist Booksellers Conference
For the fifth time in six years OUP has collected the Publisher of the Year award presented at the March 2010 Booksellers Association conference for Academic, Professional & Specialist Booksellers. For OUP's Corby Distribution Services it was even better news as they collected the accolade of Distributor of the Year for the sixth year running.
03 Mar 2010
Blue Peter Book Award Winners Announced
A thrilling adventure of two cryogenically frozen children from the 1950s, brought back to life in 2009 has been crowned the Blue Peter Book of the Year at this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards.
02 Mar 2010
Oxford reveals a strong hand for the new GCSEs
As part of the government reform of education for 14-19 year olds, GCSE exams are due to change in the UK from September 2010.
29 Jun 2009
The Mystifying Medicine Show
Ray Cobb is an orphan. At least, he thinks he is. Eight years ago, his father gave him a magnetic lodestone before he went "down south for a job of work", never to return.
29 Jun 2009
Hurry Up and Slow Down
Layn Marlow
A stunningly illustrated tale that celebrates the energy of childhood and the joy of sharing books.
Hare is always raring to go. He races through the day while Tortoise does his best to
keep up. But when he is ready for his bedtime story from Tortoise, Hare is no longer in a
hurry. After all, some things just shouldn't be rushed!
01 May 2009
Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins
THE CURIOUS twists & turns of the COOL and WEIRD words we use.
This new edition of the Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins unravels the history of thousands of
words and phrases. Written by etymological expert John Ayto, this informative and entertaining dictionary
will delight all ages from eight to eighty.
01 Jan 2009
2009 sees the launch of Oxford University Press’ campaign
to get boys reading and writing
41% of boys think reading is boring.
Reading opens the door to most other school subjects and the ability to read is statistically the main predictor of a child's later academic success+. Lack of progress or interest in reading can cause boys to turn off learning and regard school as 'not cool'. These demotivated boys often affect the whole atmosphere of the classroom, and go on to cause disruption in the school and wider society. Boys dominate figures on literacy difficulties, below average English SAT scores, school exclusions, and general antisocial behaviour.
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