The BBC is looking for young people aged 11-18 who want to report on a story or issue which is important to their life or the world around them.

As part of the celebrations of 15 years of Arts Award, we're running a competition to find out why you love the art you do. £50 arts voucher anyone? Yes please! 

For my arts award I have written a review based on the marvel movie Spiderman far from home.

In these troubled times can the power of song help us look at a problem in a new way? Internationally renowned artist and passionate opera enthusiast Joshua Sofaer thinks it can and would like you to try it. Apply at https://operahelps.com

The long-term effects of thrice changed A-levels 

Diving into the vast history of school: in Britain and all over the world

With so much fake news floating around, Bea directs her attention to mythbusting an issue that will affect us all: climate change.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

Uninterrupted free time, petrol savings and crushing boredom. For those on furlough with minimal responsibility, there has never been a greater excuse to take up a new project. 

Interview (over email due to social distancing) with Wolverhampton Poet Laureate Emma Purshouse on her experiences and involvement in the poetry 'industry'. Published here with full permission from Emma.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

Isaac Asimov

Visit to the St Helens World of Glass Museum

Written by Danni Skelding