Find out about the NWP
As of May 2018, there are 21 NWP (UK) teachers' writing groups. Teachers are gathering together to write and share their writing - both face-to-face and online. Please read, write and get involved. This is a grass-roots movement to strengthen the professional voice of writing teachers. If you are a teacher, please do join an NWP group for free, and find out for yourself.
Since 2009, NWP teachers have enjoyed meeting in parks, private houses, public galleries and museums to write and reflect on what it is that writing can do for them and their pupils. By writing together, teachers are developing their understanding of the process of writing - and what it can do for them personally and professionally. A large amount of the evidence collected is available free on this website. These reflections are helping teachers reform and strengthen their own practice in the teaching of writing, especially in developing enthusiastic, independent and resilient young writers in schools.
One of the main tenets of the project is that teachers of writing should write. But teachers are also collecting evidence of their and their pupils' 'writing journeys'. You can read more about their findings and recommendations in the research articles, published by NATE and here on the website.
NWP is a network of teachers' writing groups. It is a professional co-operative. It is supported by NATE and several schools and university departments - but mainly by teachers themselves.
There is now a book of the project, published by Routledge in November 2015.
updated by Simon Wrigley 1.5.2018
Since 2009, NWP teachers have enjoyed meeting in parks, private houses, public galleries and museums to write and reflect on what it is that writing can do for them and their pupils. By writing together, teachers are developing their understanding of the process of writing - and what it can do for them personally and professionally. A large amount of the evidence collected is available free on this website. These reflections are helping teachers reform and strengthen their own practice in the teaching of writing, especially in developing enthusiastic, independent and resilient young writers in schools.
One of the main tenets of the project is that teachers of writing should write. But teachers are also collecting evidence of their and their pupils' 'writing journeys'. You can read more about their findings and recommendations in the research articles, published by NATE and here on the website.
NWP is a network of teachers' writing groups. It is a professional co-operative. It is supported by NATE and several schools and university departments - but mainly by teachers themselves.
There is now a book of the project, published by Routledge in November 2015.
updated by Simon Wrigley 1.5.2018