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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…
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As the Olympics start in Japan, I’m delighted to be contributing… er, not to that, exactly, but to Brian Moses’s mini online Olympics poetry anthology: http://brian-moses.blogspot.com Leap, spin and sail through this entertaining collection, contributed by some of the UK’s top children’s poets! Perhaps they’ll inspire you to write your own Olympics poems,…
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Classroom Poetry next term – Covid rules permitting! Nursery – Yr 6. Interactive, fun, adventurous! Inclusive of all abilities and confidence levels. Topics to choose from: Space, Autumn Leaves, Dragons, Woodland Creatures, Fireworks. Please see my Workshops page for more information. Price per day varies depending on distance from home, overnight…
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Very pleased that my poem ‘What makes a camp fire glow’, first published in The School Magazine with this atmospheric illustration by Marjorie Crosby-Fairall, is today’s poem – June 18th – on Paul Brookes’s camping poems for June. Thanks Paul! Here it is again, for quick viewing: What makes a camp fire glow? …
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Here’s a little verse of mine about two best friends, published in A First Poetry Book, Macmillan. It’s Best Friends Day today (June 8th, 2021), and this is one way to celebrate it. (Click on image to enlarge.) And more clearly: Different But the Same Jo’s tall. …
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Hello teachers! Also any interested parents! I’m offering exciting, fun, interactive poetry workshops as ever this term, with seaside and ocean themes. Choose between Stormy Sea, Deep Sea Secrets, Seaside, and Sea Monsters, with variations for each class. Details on my Virtual Workshops page. Here’s a poem of mine about a sea…
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Empathy comes naturally to many children – perhaps to all, even if – like adults – they don’t always find it easy to act on it. In my poem ‘New Boy’, the children feel for their new classmate as I believe most would, especially with one or two leading the way. Perhaps a poem…
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Chuffed to see my poem ‘Dragon in the Sky’, with its wonderful illustration by David Legge, has had over 3,000 views on YouTube! (Click to watch and listen). The reading by Sue-Anne Webster, video created by the publishers, The School Magazine, Australia. They have also recently republished the poem – with its fascinating…
Kate Williams 