On 26 August it was announced that we were awarded generous funding (88,000 Euros) from the Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, as part of the Scheme “Axudas para proxectos de investigación desenvolvidos por investigadores emerxentes”. This is a three-year research project entitled ‘The art of writing English’: A corpus of schoolchildren’s writings.