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Just a note to say bookings are coming in for the summer months, so grab your preferred date before it goes, if interested in a workshop visit! My topic choices this term are: Creepy Crawlies, Rain Forest and Seaside/Ocean. All are adapted to suit the different year groups from Nursery to Year 7, with boundless…
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Easter greetings, teachers and head teachers! Summer is a wonderful time for poetry sessions: you can take them outside, and bring the essence back in, or if that’s not possible, at least drink the season in at the window! My theme choices for the term will be: Seaside and/or Ocean, Rain Forest/Jungle, and Creepy Crawlies. …
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Daylight is returning, spring bulbs are stirring, and poetry is in the air! It’s in the classrooms, too, and yesterday it was buzzing round the hall of Long Meadow Primary School in Milton Keynes, where able young poets from all around inspired me with their bright, fresh creativity. Well done to all, by the way!…
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Here is a link to some fabulous poems produced by Year 7 and Year 8 pupils at Pencoed Comprehensive School, Bridgend, S. Wales, in my recent workshops there. More to be displayed on the page soon. Congratulations to competition winners and runners-up, and to all the pupils who attended the sessions! Impossible decisions had to…
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After a fascinating forage through the language of autumn leaves with young writers this month, I can’t wait to see what poetic treasures will emerge from my Fireworks and Winter Lights themes! In fact, I’ve already caught some thrilling glimpses through my latest workshops, where whirling leaves caught the light of lampposts and car lights,…
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One of my theme choices for this term is autumn leaves. I offer it every year. Here’s why. I never tire of autumn leaves, and the children I work with don’t seem to either, even after a double session! Their poems never fail to thrill me either. There is just so much to explore, dream…
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Hello teachers, This is to let you know that I’ve at last got all my 70 available poetry frames on display for browsing, and perhaps purchasing. You’ll find them on my overflow website, poems4pockets.com . The frames overflow, too, onto a second page. About the poetry frames I design and make my own poetry frames, so…
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Looking ahead to next term… I’m sure no teacher wants to be thinking of next term already, but this is just for mulling over, or anyone super-organised who’s booking ahead of the new year rush. Unleashing creativity My workshops will be available as ever next term, with topic choices as below. I offer a specific…
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World-Wide-Web-Workshops! I’m excited to announce that I’m launching a major extension to my workshop services – via Skype! My online inputs, in association with agency Authors Abroad, will be available from the start of July. Cost-effective simplicity! A screen session offers a flexible, budget-friendly alternative to an author visit, enabling schools to slot in a creative…
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Every child, it seems to me, has least a wisp of poetry inside them – I would maintain far more. In fact, in some ways children can seem more poetic than adults, because they express themselves so naturally, vibrantly and musically. I suppose it comes of being fresh, clear-headed, fired-up about life, and free from…
Kate Williams 