Heartening to see 118 students from schools and colleges in Colchester honoured at the Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Awards, including Amelia who is recognised for her extracurricular achievements and participating in #PoetryByHeart!
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2588218...
Logo for the Children's Book Award which is managed by the Federation of Children's Book Groups.
Big day for awards! The FCBG have revealed the shortlist for this year's Children's Book Award, the only award completely chosen by children. #FCBGCBA26 #kidlituk
Find out which favourite children's authors are on this year's list and congratulations to them all🎆
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Enjoy an article by Poetry By Heart co-director Julie Blake for Right Start Online on why children benefit so much from poetry, with top tips for finding and sharing poems with children! You'll find plenty of ideas on our brand-new 4+ timeline ❤️
www.rightstartonline.co.uk/features/poe...
We're delighted to share two special recordings by poets Jessica Mookherjee and Kayo Chingonyi of our primary and secondary calendar poems for March - 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub and 'Humming-Bird' by D. H. Lawrence 🗓️❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/hummin...
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-do...
Photograph of pancakes stacked on a plate. Photo by M Draa for Unsplash
Feels like a good day to share Mix a Pancake by Christina Rossetti, via @poetrybyheart.bsky.social With only 22 words, you have a good chance of learning it quickly! #poetry
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mix-a-...
Photo of a teenager performing a poem at the Poetry By Heart finale. Black text in yellow boxes reads Poetry By Heart North Yorkshire Showcase, Ripon Library 18 April, Scarborough Library 25 April. Logos for North Yorkshire Council, Poetry By Heart and The Poetry Society at the bottom.
Schools in North Yorkshire! We're partnering with @poetrybyheart.bsky.social North Yorkshire Council School Improvement Service & North Yorkshire Libraries on 2 showcases!
Ripon Library, 18 April
Scarbrough Library, 25 April
Free to take part! #PoetryByHeart
How wonderful to see this by Junior Journalists celebrating the opening of the brand-new Benjamin Zephaniah Library at William Murdoch Primary School! After speeches students performed Zephaniah's poems aloud - good practice for taking part in the #PoetryByHeart competition! 📚✨
Graphic showing a portion of a timeline, with a white line representing the timeline, punctuated by photos of poets Ben Jonson, Joseph Coelho, Siana Bangura, A.F. Harrold and Vachel Lindsay. Above the timeline, text in black reads 'Timeline Anthology 4+'.
Calling all primary school teachers! @poetrybyheart.bsky.social has launched a brand new Key Stage 1 timeline, packed with free-to-access poems by some brilliant children's poets, accompanied by helpful kid-friendly explanations.
poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus
We’re delighted to share our BRAND NEW timeline of poems to help the youngest school pupils discover the joy of poetry and speaking it aloud! Coinciding with the National Year of Reading, each poem will be accompanied by special notes to help explore the poem ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus
Three cheers for #poetry at least. Check out @poetrybyheart.bsky.social for outstanding poetry teaching resources
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A really inspiring write up #poetry
Thank you @booksforkeeps.bsky.social for a marvellous article on #PoetryByHeart's national poetry speaking competition by former school librarian Fiona Kirk! Discover Fiona's thoughts on recruiting contestants and seeing students grown in confidence ❤️
booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/brin...
Happy January! first page of the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social calendar.
Brilliant! :)
A review of Small Poems for Big Imaginations by Neal Zetter
Rules - a poem by Neal Zetter
Welcome to the world🌍 #smallpoemsforbigimaginations by @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social a book that makes its reader feel good. Wishing it well!
Some great poems for learning by heart in school comps too!
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Thanks to @poetrybyheart.bsky.social for highlighting this fund to help primary and secondary #schools develop their #poetry teaching and special activities. Well worth applying!
www.chch.ox.ac.uk/tower-poetry...
Join us in the last week of January for a series of events to celebrate our new John Calder Translation Prize. The events are a mix of online and in person and will be held between Tuesday 27 January and Friday 30 January. Find all the events and book your place on our website. buff.ly/5eFR9W2
Listen out for the 'tinkle, tinkle, tinkle' of bells in Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'The Bells' for the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today! 🔔 The poem is packed full of sounds that bring the wintry scene to life. Can you play around with voicing the repeated words?
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-be...
Enjoy this short and playful poem as part of #PoetryByHeart's Festive Showcase ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ 'Go Snow Go!' by Simon Mole is full of whoops, hoots, and howls - see if you can bring them out in a performance! Visit our website for more tips ✨
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/go-sno...!
'Sitting under the mistletoe . . . One last candle burning low' - enjoy Walter de la Mare's poem 'Mistletoe' as a Boxing Day treat on the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase! Discover how all the associations of mistletoe mingle in this marvellous poem 🌿❄️ 🌟
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mistle...
Merry Christmas from #PoetryByHeart! It's time for the Festive Showcase reveal - our Christmas Day poem is Langston Hughes's 'On a Pallet of Straw', which imagines the very first Christmas 🌟 ❄️ Experiment with performing the repeated lines in different ways!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/on-a-p...
It's Christmas Eve! Time for a #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem by G. K. Chesterton, 'A Christmas Carol' ⭐ Think about how you could gesture to the brackets in a performance - do they indicate different voices? See our website for more! 🎄 ❄️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-chri...
Today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem is the musical 'and a tree' by Kate Wakeling 🎄 ❄️ Say the poem aloud and feel the beat as you read. Head over to our website to watch a special video performance by students at Soho Parish Primary School ✨
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/and-a-...
New day, new poetry window to open on the #PoetryByHeart advent calendar! Today's poem is the gentle 'Snowflake Song' by James Carter, which sees a snowflake tumble in 'downward spirals' as night falls ❄️
Head to our website to explore the poem ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/snowfl...
Today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem is 'In the Bleak Midwinter' by Christina Rossetti! Perhaps you've heard this poem sung as a carol at Christmas time 🎶 ❄️ ✨ Practice speaking the poem out loud and see if you can capture its moving simplicity ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/in-the...
The countdown to the festive season is truly on, and what better way to get in the mood than with a poem! Today's poem for the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase is 'Merry Christmas' by Dorothy Brown Thompson - containing greetings in five different languages! ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/merry-...
For the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today, enjoy a special recitation of 'Father Christmas sent me to the Moon' by @domconlon.bsky.social, and see what twist you can put on the poem by speaking it! 🌙 ❄️ Dom also offers tips for writing your own poem 🖋️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/father...
Open up the window for today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase advent calendar and you'll find the funny festive poem 'Just Doing my Job' by Clare Bevan ⚔️ ✨ 🎄 Enjoy the humour and see if you can bring out the comic punchline in your performance of this poem!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
