It also means that we have been given 300 new books by Penguin to help us spread ideas from different perspectives across the school, creating great joy in the English department and for some of our students who volunteered for the exciting task of opening the boxes and finding out what treasures lay within.

The Lit in Colour initiative began in 2020 and their research highlights startling under-representation of writing by and about certain groups. For example, only 7% of students fully study a book written by a woman, and 82% of students surveyed could not remember ever studying a text by an author from a Black, Asian or ethnic minority background in their experience of school in England. You can read more about Lit in Colour by clicking the link below.