Month: August 2021
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HARVEST POETRY-WRITING As your fruit ripens and your crops mature, gather words and rhythms to celebrate your harvest. Show your class the beauties of sweet, juicy fruits, and help them appreciate the annual miracle of food grown out of the ground. Inspire them to capture the wonder of your local yield in writing.…
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Excited to be contributing a haiku to a fabulous new collection, ‘Wonder’, by the National History Museum, to be published on September 2nd. Preview on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonder-Natural-History-Museum-Poetry/dp/1529058996 Also looking forward to reading the other poems in this fascinating and celebratory nature-fest. A great resource for schools and families, and a source of…
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BIRDS bring our skies alive, and our parks and gardens, too. They set forests buzzing and rooftops twitching, and even keep us entertained in busy cities. In the autumn you see beautiful swirls of migrating birds making patterns in the sky as the prepare for their vast flight to warmer lands. Those sights alone…
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WOODS can be dark and creepy or colourful and glistening. Their tracks can be squelchy with mud or velvet-smooth with fallen leaves. You might see tiny birds high in the treetops, a shy rabbit peeping round a tree trunk, a shiny beetle edging up a tree trunk, or you might see nothing but a veil…
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Autumn leaves offer wonderful poetry-writing inspiration for children of all ages. There’s so much to say about them, what with their colours, textures, shapes, movements, free flight, fragility, and symbol of seasonal change! What’s more, leaf-writing offers a great excuse to get outside and moving. Help the children spin and launch their leaves.…
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Hello schools! Looking forward to stepping back into the classroom next month, with my usual poetry workshop offerings! I work with Nursery – Yr 6, helping to bring language alive for children with multi-faceted warm-ups before supported poetry-writing. Everyone has a chance to share lines from their work, and we round off with funny rhymes…
Kate Williams 