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Category: Penguin Talks

  • Why Poetry Belongs To All Of Us with Caleb Femi and Zawe Ashton: Lit in Colour

    Why Poetry Belongs To All Of Us with Caleb Femi and Zawe Ashton: Lit in Colour Age: Key Stages 3 – 5; S 1 – 3 Subject: PSHE Topic: Representation Lit in Colour is Penguin’s new campaign to diversify the teaching and learning of English Literature in UK schools.  In this talk, poet Caleb Femi and […]

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  • How to be a Climate Optimist with David Wallace-Wells and Lily Cole

    How to be a Climate Optimist with David Wallace-Wells and Lily Cole Age: KS 4 – 5 / S5 – 6 Subject: PHSE Topic: Environment Scared about climate change? David and Lily discuss how to be a climate optimist.

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  • How To Get Into Publishing With Simon Armstrong And Hannah Chukwu

    How to Get into Publishing with Simon Armstrong and Hannah Chukwu Age: KS 4 – 5 / S5 – 6 Subject: English Topic: Publishing Simon and Hannah discuss how the industry works, how books are made and how you can get into publishing.

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  • How to be Creative with Marlon James and Ekow Eshun

    How to be Creative with Marlon James and Ekow Eshun Age: KS 4 – 5 / S5 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: Creativity Marlon and Ekow will be discuss creativity, what it means to them and how we can be more creative in our lives.

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  • How To Believe In Yourself With Big Narstie And Ciaran Thapar

    How to Believe in Yourself with Big Narstie and Ciaran Thapar Age: KS 4 – 5 / S5 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: Believing in yourself In this talk, Big Narstie and Ciaran discussed the importance of living your own life and believing in yourself.

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  • Intersectionality with Mohsin Zaidi and Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

    How to Embrace your Intersectionality with Mohsin Zaidi and Jessica Kellgren-Fozard Age: KS 5 / S5 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: Intersectionality In this talk, Jessica and Mohsin will be discussing their intersectionality and how we can embrace our identity. The live comment thread will be opened towards the end of the Talk for you […]

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  • How To Build Confidence With Maya Jama And DOM&INK

    How to build confidence with Maya Jama and DOM&INK Age: KS 5 / S4 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: Confidence In this talk, Maya and Dom discussed what confidence means to them, the barriers to developing confidence and how we can build our own confidence.

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  • How To Challenge Inequality, With Elif Shafak And Afua Hirsch

    How to Challenge Inequality, with Elif Shafak and Afua Hirsch In June 2020, award-winning British-Turkish novelist, Elif Shafak, joined writer, journalist and broadcaster, Afua Hirsch to discuss inequality and what we can do to address and challenge it. Resources Age: Key Stages 3 – 5 Subject: PSHE Topic: Inequality The following activities give KS3-5 students the opportunity to discuss how and […]

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  • How To Talk To Strangers With Malcolm Gladwell And Emma Dabiri

    How to Talk to Strangers with Malcolm Gladwell and Emma Dabiri Malcolm Gladwell, Author, How to Talk to Strangers and Emma Dabiri, Academic and Author, Don’t Touch my Hair Age: KS4 & 5 / S4 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: Communication Author of five international bestsellers, Malcolm Gladwell, joins academic and author of Don’t Touch My Hair, […]

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  • How to Prepare for the Squiggly World of Work with Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper

    How to Prepare for the Squiggly World of Work with Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper Age: KS4 & 5 / S4 – 6 Subject: PSHE Topic: World of Work Authors of The Squiggly Career, Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, shared practical tools, exercises and actions to help you grow in confidence, stay curious and ultimately prepare […]

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