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Hello schools! My summer term themes are seasonal, fun and, as ever, open-ended. I’m offering a choice of three topics, though they tend to overlap and stray off who knows where as ideas fly and imagery sets the room alight. My 3 loose themes are: Seaside Insect World Summer Woods and their Wildlife Seaside can…
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Some children gaze at the little pictures I put up at the start of a workshop. Others go more for the class chat and story-sharing. It might be the most restless child in the group who sits the stillest as I read out my poem. Often, it’s the quietest kid who gives the loudest roar,…
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Welcome to the summer term, teachers – a term to be governed by who knows which political party?! Let’s just hope, whichever party it be, they allow a little chink in the curriculum for creativity at last! Let’s hope they stop to see, as you teachers do, that there’s more to education than SATS results:…
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Open windows, blue sky and fresh, fragrant air! What could be more conducive to creative writing? I can’t wait for my summer term poetry workshops to begin, and the doors to open – in all ways! Whether we’re imagining ourselves at sparkly, splashy seasides, or up in the calm, clear sky with the butterflies and…
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Yes, it’s already time to be looking ahead to next term, and planning a poetry day, perhaps! True, the children all wrote poems for World Book Day, or perhaps for another recent event. But creative writing is a complex, multi-faceted skill that takes years of practice and experience to develop. Poetry alone offers limitless potential…
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My new poem ‘The Big Eco-Friendly Giant’ features in the latest issue of The Caterpillar, along with another, Zebra Crossing. You can read them here (or not). Two of my poems contribute to collections for 5-7 year-olds, to be published by Wayland this summer (anthologist Brian Moses), Summer and Seasons respectively. This pair of books will be complemented by…
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Hello schools! Let’s celebrate World Book Day (WBD) by inspiring our next generation of writers! No doubt you’re booked up for WBD (March 2nd) and I am too – all week in fact – but children need inspiring every day! So what better than a thrilling, hilarious, mysterious dazzle of dragon poetry to sweep away…
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Greetings, teachers and head teachers! Dragons, Castles, Weather (of all kinds) and School Sounds are my theme choices this term, together with Spring Woods after half term, with poetry workshops on offer for children aged 3 – 13. With the help of picture displays, hands-on artefacts, class discussion, word-building challenges, acting-out, and – for younger children…
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Best wishes to all for a happy New Year: a fresh and inviting, new writing New Year! Ignore the recession, and winter depression! The music of words is still here. Whatever the hiccups and hassles and hurdles, the stresses and losses and sorrows and burdens – whatever the tangles and wretches and wrangles, poetry won’t…
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Season’s greetings, and thanks for visiting my site! May your Christmas be: comfy and cosy, merry and rosy; munchy, crunchy, dreamy and dozy! Brimful of cheer and all that’s dear: bright as the lighted tree! Oh, serene as snow pristine may your Christmas be! And may a genie clear and clean, and serve your cup of tea!…
Kate Williams 