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Hello teachers! My poetry workshops for Rec. – Yr 6 are available as ever – online, with timetable flexibility to finetune to your needs. So what’s involved? My sessions are live, interactive, fun and mind-stretching, drawing out children’s creativity and developing their literacy powers. Drama, music, pictures, brain-storming for words and imagery, and sample poems…
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Very happy indeed to be a contributor to the wonderful new poetry book, Shaping the World, 40 Historical Heroes in Verse, chosen by poet Liz Brownlee for Macmillan Children’s Books! The collection is out today, April 1st – yes, April Fool’s Day, but this is no joke: it’s a fantastic truth! Every poem is presented…
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Delighted to have a poem in poet Brian Moses’s Spring mini-anthology: http://brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/03/spring-sunshine-sunshine-likes-to-dance.html Browse through this rich feast of contributions, including poetry by Brian himself of course, for a springy Sunday and onwards! Here’s mine (inspired by ponies in seasonally buttercup-lit fields in my village) – but do see the other poets’ contributions too: Foal…
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Here’s my poem, ‘A Meal for your Maths Teacher’, Highly Commended in the international YorkMix Poems for Children 2021 competition – just to send a warning out to any over-mathsy teachers out there! A MEAL FOR YOUR MATHS TEACHER If your teacher’s the sort of creature to set a nasty sum, distract her…
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If you were a Giraffe If you were a giraffe, with a drain-long, crane-strong, swing-along neck, would you just eat leaves? I wouldn’t. I’d be a spy. I’d peep over fences ten feet high, and snoop through windows up in the sky, and peer into aeroplanes cruising by, spying all day with my aerial…
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How on earth can you get kids to write quality poetry via a video link? I’m talking about anxious 5- and 6-year-olds, often stuck on the simplest word and unnerved by the unfamiliar term ‘poem’; fidgety 7 and 8-year-olds bursting with energy, and the super-mature at the top end of primary, in…
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Snow Writing (Y1-2 approx.) is my latest addition to the new KidLitFun catalogue. Details + download (80p via PayPal). Photo preview: Lots more too! Click here for whole catalogue. See Collections for topic groupings.
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The world is turning… While winter seems at its darkest and harshest, buds are growing, seeds are stirring, birds are eyeing up nesting places, and daylight is stretching imperceptibly, day by day: we’re heading straight and fast for spring. Sleeping Willow Statue riding the rolling sky, still as a swan on a lake, buds deep-chilled…
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Teachers – these four winter poems of mine can be enjoyed by your class in different ways: simply by listening, or by a mix of listening and pausing to discuss, or by listening twice and thinking up alternatives to selected words along the way, or by sketching while listening, or by taking a line and…
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Attention Primary Schools! Hello teachers! My virtual poetry workshops are continuing after Christmas, with the following topic choices: WILD WOODS, SPACE, CREEPY-CRAWLIES, DRAGONS, SPRING ANIMALS, CASTLES. Please take your pick, with one per day. My prices are very competitive, and my sessions combine fun with poetic exploration, keeping everyone…
Kate Williams 