John Agard performs his poem 'Checking Out Me History'. Suitable for teaching Key Stage 3 and GCSE.

Presented by hip-hop star Akala, Poetry: Between the Lines features contemporary poets talking about some of their best-loved poems.

Poetry made optional for English literature GCSE exams next year, regulator announces It comes after a consultation was launched to help resolve issues around pupils missing school during lockdown.

My aim in those spaces is to try to encourage them to see poetry and literature as something greater than a daunting analytical exercise, or a puzzle that needs solving; and rather to see it as an ...

Exams regulator Ofqual yesterday unveiled a slimmed-down English literature syllabus for 2021 to account for the lost teaching time.

Teacher at Brighton school issues apology after students were faced with four never-before seen poems in their exam.

New back-to-basics GCSE specifications include more poetry in English literature, a greater focus on spelling and punctuation in language courses and a requirement to learn formulae "off by heart ...

A violent poem has been dropped from an English GCSE syllabus due to fears about teenage knife crime. The AQA exam board has withdrawn Education For Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, which begins with ...

GCSE students who are allowed to drop subject areas for their English literature exams next summer risk becoming “culturally illiterate”, teachers have warned.

In future, pupils taking GCSE English literature will be required to learn poems by no fewer than five poets - and to study 300 lines of poetry at a minimum.

Thousands of GCSE students answered questions on a poem with crucial lines missing, an exam board admitted yesterday.