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Poetic inspiration for new teachers

To Learn the Future – an anthology of poetry aimed at new teachers – is hoping to inspire and support those at the beginning of their careers. Sam Phipps explains

Everyone knows that NQTs need all kinds of skills and character traits when they start out in the classroom. This year every new teacher in Scotland is receiving a special gift to help them on their way – a pocket-sized anthology of poetry, edited and produced just for them.

To Learn the Future (pictured below), which is published by the Scottish Poetry Library and was officially launched at the Edinburgh International Book Festival earlier this month, is meant to inspire, amuse, console and sustain teachers not only at the start of their careers but – with any luck – throughout the long, challenging and uplifting years ahead.

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