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Enid Blyton Bursary
Posted: 06 Sep 2017, 20:57
by pete9012S
We’re thrilled to announce that five primary schools in the UK have secured fully-funded places on our popular Reading for Pleasure training in Swindon and Liverpool in the new school year, thanks to the Enid Blyton Bursary. 10 runners-up also won a year’s membership of the National Literacy Trust Network.
A teacher from one of the winning schools said:
"I want the children in my school to read for pleasure in order to help them be empathetic in these difficult and confusing times. I want them to see other people, other places, other times. I want them to have that gasp of delight when a twist in the tale has caught them off guard."
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Re: Enid Blyton Bursary
Posted: 06 Sep 2017, 23:15
by Anita Bensoussane
Interesting, Pete. I didn't know about the Enid Blyton Bursary.
Re: Enid Blyton Bursary
Posted: 07 Sep 2017, 00:02
by Courtenay
pete9012S wrote:
A teacher from one of the winning schools said:
"I want the children in my school to read for pleasure in order to help them be empathetic in these difficult and confusing times. I want them to see other people, other places, other times. I want them to have that gasp of delight when a twist in the tale has caught them off guard."
I like this. Does anyone else here agree that Enid's books did that for them in their formative years (and beyond)? Yes, Enid Blyton, the supposedly racist, sexist, classist, mind-numbingly repetitive author of dumbed-down tosh (as so many critics over the years would have us believe)???
Re: Enid Blyton Bursary
Posted: 07 Sep 2017, 09:40
by Anita Bensoussane
Yes, Enid's books did that for me too. They widened my horizons and taught me about different ways of life from an early age. We've heard a lot about Enid Blyton's supposed racism and sexism over the years but the books have lasted nevertheless and I think there's a renewed appreciation of some of the qualities they embody - empathy, comradeship, generosity, wonder and a positive outlook.
Re: Enid Blyton Bursary
Posted: 07 Sep 2017, 10:12
by Courtenay
And funnily enough, many of us were fed a steady diet of unedited Blyton as children and still didn't grow up to be racist or sexist ourselves, which says something...
