RENOWNED poet Kate Clanchy has written a new book about teaching.

Ms Clanchy has worked with staff and students at Oxford Spires Academy as a writer-in-residence since 2009.

She was awarded the MBE by the Prince of Wales in February for services to literature.

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Ms Clanchy’s new book is called Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, and it will be published by Picador on April 4.

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Fellow author Philip Pullman has praised the new study, saying: “The best book on teachers and children and writing that I’ve ever read.”