A Title for a Children’s Poetry Collection
So an update on the collection title. I tried out the shortlist on a group of year 5’s i was working on today… Fold Up… Read More »A Title for a Children’s Poetry Collection
Schools workshops
Celebrating Difference
I had a fantastic time today discussing ways to raise and work with difficult issues as practitioners and teachers in schools. There were some great… Read More »Celebrating Difference
New Children’s Poetry Collection
I am thrilled to share that I have my first children’s poetry collection coming out with Janetta Otter-Barry books of Frances Lincoln next year. It’s… Read More »New Children’s Poetry Collection
Catching Words with Discover
I’m halfway through a wonderful project with The Discover Centre in stratford. The project is called Catching Words and involves three artists each delivering a… Read More »Catching Words with Discover
Performing as part of Apples and Snakes SPIN show
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Catch Me on CBBC’s Rhyme Rocket on Monday 20th August 9:20am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/rhyme-rocket/
Poetry Judging
I spent the yesterday morning judging poetry at St Anne’s church in Limehouse. On arrival at this magnificent building I was presented with the daunting… Read More »Poetry Judging
Don’t forget your dictionary
When I was still at school my grandmother gave me her thesaurus/dictionary, it had seen better days and a large section of ‘C’ was apparently… Read More »Don’t forget your dictionary
Boys reading and writing through game play
I find many things can be inspirations for writing and workshop exercises from great works of art to beautiful music – but I did not… Read More »Boys reading and writing through game play
What’s the SOUND Mr Wolf
This is a game developed with teachers at Thomas A Beckett school in Worthing. The focus is sounding out letter sounds. The game is similar… Read More »What’s the SOUND Mr Wolf