About

Tony Dickens teaches English in Nottinghamshire.

He is committed to raising achievement in English through inspirational, innovative, creative learning and teaching. He has published articles on improving writing at Key Stage 4 and in 2005 he was nominated for a national Teacher of the Year Award.

Tony has been a head of English in secondary schools in Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire and in his time he has been involved in the making of a television programme for Meridian on the crime novel. He has been a football commentator and he is also a published poet and short story writer. He has performed his work at many venues across the south-east of England and in recent years his poems have been broadcast on Radio Berkshire for National Poetry Day.

He has an MA in English Literature and a PGCE in English from Westminster College, Oxford, where the great John Foster tutored him. His enthusiasm for his subject is as high as ever, as fresh as ever, as inspirational as the day he walked through the doors of Waingel’s College, Wokingham in 1995, and started plying his trade.