A guide to using hindsight to evaluate how choices affect different situations and creating metaphors from these findings. For Key Stages 3-5 and featuring ‘Drifting Away, Together’ by Jacob Hill, from the Longcroft School and Sixth Form College First Story Group.

A guide to Theodora Shillito’s ‘The Story of Squiddly Diddly’, a poem about marine conservation and recycling, commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020. This resource encourages students to think about how the choices we make affect the environment. For Key Stages 2-3.

A guide to choosing your own fate despite the odds being against you using ‘Thirteen’ by Caleb Femi. For Key Stages 3-5.

A guide to exploring the theme of choice about our relationships with others in the context of troubling societal attitudes to inclusion and exclusion. For Key Stages 3-4 and featuring ‘Nothing Personal’ by John Mole.

A guide to identifying the meaning and significance of line-breaks in poetry. Students will explore the rhythm, pace and meaning of poetic lines with creative activities using reading, group writing, independent writing and performance. For Key Stage 3 and featuring ‘caribbean woman’ by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze.

A guide to identifying key or ‘clue’ words within poems that students are reading, providing a framework to reflect on word choice in their own writing. Students will complete a reflection task at the beginning and end of the session. For Key Stage 2 and featuring ‘Sonnet with particles of gold’ by Nina Mingya Powles.

A comprehensive toolkit, full of tips and advice for how to make the most of the big day and the positive impact poetry can have on learning and well-being.

A poetry writing resource using a brand new poem from Bardd Plant Cymru, Gruffudd Owen. Designed for KS3, this resource is also available in English.

A poetry writing resource using a brand new poem from Bardd Plant Cymru, Gruffudd Owen. Designed for KS3, this resource is also available in Welsh.

Using a classic poem from Paul Laurence Dunbar (influential for poets such as Maya Angelou), this guide explores how to write a poem about freedom (or its opposite). Group activities designed for KS3, and featuring links and prompts for further exploration of Dunbar’s legacy and other poetry writing techniques.

Use this guide to make a rainbow poem with the whole class (or school). Designed for KS2, this resource uses colour association to create poetry, including a classic poem from Christina Rossetti and some handy video links to help students think about colour from other perspectives – have you ever seen what colour is like for a snake? Find out with this resource.

Use this surreal guessing-game to tease your students into poetry. Designed for KS3/4, this resource invites you to be playful with stories created from everyday things. Featuring the poem ‘Diamonds’ by Evelyn Byrne, commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.

A guide to exploring how using metaphors in poems can help to build pictures and images in our minds. Designed for KS1/2/3 and featuring an extract from ‘Granny Is’ by Valerie Bloom, use this resource structure to discuss how poems form images in our heads and how metaphors can be used to describe characters.

This guide illustrates how to share your vision of your own special place. Designed for KS3/4/5 and featuring a poem by Seamus Heaney, this guide allows students to push their descriptive language skills in order to build an accurate picture of their vision for another person.

A guide to exploring limits through poetry, featuring the poem ‘Eye Chart’ by partially sighted poet Nuala Watt. Designed for KS3/4, this resource encourages students to examine their own strengths and weaknesses, and how these abilities make them feel, using this to create their own ‘Eye Chart’.

A guide to encouraging reading poetry aloud as a means to inspire Vision, using photography and tips from poet Glyn Maxwell’s handbook On Poetry (Oberon Books). This resource also features a poem by Charles E. Carryl and is adaptable for all key stages.

What does it mean to be a visionary poet? This guide, featuring a poem from American poet Terrance Hayes (with video link), encourages students to try for themselves. Designed for KS4/5, this guide explores a variety of language techniques and includes nods to Greek mythology and Black American literary history.

A short exercise for KS2 exploring poetry and visual art, from poet John Hegley. Featuring a poem from John and text by Clare Elstow, this guide suggests simple ways to use art to engage poetic responses from students. These activities form part of a larger resource pack produced by Tom MacAndrew, access details are included in this resource.

A guide to using poetry – based on your name – to create a deeper, more poetic expression of who you truly are. Designed for KS3/4, this guide explores how to use etymology to inspire your student’s writing. Featuring Lucy Webb’s poem ‘Etymology’ from 20:20 Vision: An Anthology by the First Story Group at Saint Gabriel’s College, London.

A guide to outlining your poetic vision for our planet and the environment by Sue Hardy-Dawson. Designed for KS2, this guide includes a poem from Where the Zebra’s Go (Otter-Barry Books) as well as links to more helpful videos from Sue on writing poetry and free teaching resources from CLPE.