An engaging KS2 assembly to celebrate World Poetry Day in your school. Includes a 36 slide PowerPoint, 8 famous poets from around the world, 8 poems, map skills, higher level thinking questions and role models. This assembly teaches the children about 8 famous poets from around the world introduced with a short biography and a famous poem they have written. All the poems are short, relevant for KS2 and inspiring. Includes map skills, higher level thinking questions and inspirational writing role models. Each country has a map, flag and landscape picture to develop geographical understanding as well. Reasoning questions and answers about each poem are provided and time at the end of the assembly to reflect and look forwards. Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity, a shared understanding and endangered languages around the world. Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers whilst developing their understanding of how everyone in the world has the same questions and feelings. Show them how poetry can capture the creative spirit of the human mind. All reviews welcome. You might also be interested in my packs of poems and lessons: India Culture Poem Collection Arctic Tundra Poem Collection 5 Reading Lessons on Writing Poetry 5 Reading Lessons on Performing Poetry

An assembly to support work during World Mental Health Day in October 2023. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities. This beautifully-designed and editable 26-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities. Slide 1: What is World Mental Health Day? Includes video. Slide 2-3: Why do some young people suffer with their mental health? Slide 4: This rise of teenage anxiety and poor mental health [inc national research graphs] Slide 5: Top tips for improving mental health: Breathing exercise. Includes video. Slide 6: Top tips for improving mental health: Move more. Includes video. Slide 7: Top tips for improving mental health: Sleep habits. Slide 8 and 9: Top tips for improving mental health: Healthy eating. Includes video. Slide 10: Top tips for improving mental health: Get outside. Includes video. Slide 11: Top tips for improving mental health: Be social. Slide 12: Top tips for improving mental health: Retrain your brain Slide 13: Closing Thought Slide 14: Follow-up form time activities title screen Slide 15: Form time activities: Support links to explore Slide 16: Form time activities: Art activity Slide 17: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity Slide 18: Form time activities: Poetry activity Slides 19-23: Form time activities: Mental Health quiz – with answers Slides 24-25: Other form time ideas to support anxiety strategies. As reviewers have stated for previous resources shared: “I sat down to plan my assembly for next week and found this resource, and it’s perfect. The best £2 spent. Thank you. I can teach this straight from the slides.” “Just buy it!” “Your resources have been life savers!” “Well worth the money and really saved my life” “I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.” “Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!” “They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.” “Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.” “These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”

An easy way to get your pupils to write a poem. The format can then be used as a template for other poetry.

7 pages of poems ready to print with photos and pictures including title page Contents: 1 My body 2 My Rabbit 3 Fed up of Winter 4 Spring 5 Hurrah for Snow 6 Summer has Arrived 7 Summer 8 Rain 9 Grumpy Goat 10 Polly Parrot 11 Three Little Pigs 12 Washing Day 13 Addicted to Phones All of my resources are created using the Widgit software program ‘Communicate in Print’ Permission has been granted for me to use their symbols and pictures. Poems are all my own work Please rate if you download Thank you for looking

Need an engaging activity to lead your students in this WORLD POETRY DAY? Need to get your students interested in and responding to key texts? If so, you’re in the right place! Includes: -Clear instructions -A diverse selection of poems to print for students to work on -Assessment Criteria -Exemplar work & ideas

Inspire your pupils with this KS1 assembly celebrating World Poetry Day. Includes an engaging PowerPoint, 4 poems, geography map skills, video link, reasoning questions and interactive activities. This ready-to-go 27 slide PowerPoint leads you through the assembly explaining World Poetry Day and poetry. Read the children 4 world habitat poems written about environments from across the globe. Choose poems from a world map, before reading about the animals, landscape and climate of jungles, grasslands, deserts and the arctic. Enhance geography skills whilst developing vocabulary and a passion for poetry. An engaging video is included to provide a range of role models who clearly enjoy reading poetry and bringing it to life. Celebrate World Poetry Day every year on March 21st to encourage diversity and a shared understanding of the world. Use this assembly to inspire your pupils to become writers, enjoy the video link of a range of people reading a poem about how poets can write anywhere. Check out my other popular KS1 assemblies: Mental Health Awareness Week KS1 Assembly Albert Einstein KS1 Assembly Charles Darwin KS1 Assembly

Ignite the spirit of creativity and appreciation for literature with our captivating PowerPoint presentation designed for World Poetry Day assembly. This comprehensive and visually engaging resource is tailored to inform and inspire students about the significance of poetry as a universal art form. Our PowerPoint presentation is thoughtfully crafted to capture the essence of World Poetry Day, highlighting its origins, purpose, and global significance. Through dynamic visuals, informative text, and interactive elements, students will gain a deeper understanding of the role poetry plays in expressing emotions, exploring cultural identities, and fostering empathy and understanding among diverse communities.

Special World Poetry Day Presentation: To Be or Not to Be? The special lesson about the origin and the impact of The World Poetry Day which is celebrated on 21st of March, 2018. The lesson contains 12 slides.

Imagine if on one of the days we celebrate poetry every lesson began with a poem - that's what I hope this collection will inspire; no teaching, just savour, enjoy, discuss, think creatively and connect poetic insights with your subject area. Go with the flow and see what comes of just enjoying a wide range of poems. Also useful as a collection of unseen poems.

And the winner is... Included in the document are all entries to my #teshaiku twitter competition from 21 March 2013 in celebration of World Poetry Day. Some GREAT entries so thank you to everyone who took part.A handy collection of almost 60 haiku that could be adapted / edited if you're teaching haiku, too.

A free World Poetry Day lesson resource from B and D Publishing. World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on 21 March. This resource covers work on acrostics and the following poems, with questions and commentary: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Tiger by William Blake The Listeners by Walter de la Mare Leisure by William Henry Davies Some of the work in this pack is adapted from B and D Publishing’s full schemes of work, Forty Favourite Poems Series One and Two. The Forty Favourite Poems series consists of two resource packs, each containing forty poems that are essential reading for all lovers of English literature. Series One is suitable for use with students at KS3 and Series Two for students working at KS4 and beyond. The copyright free text plus work on each poem is provided. Forty Favourite Poems Series One (KS3) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-forty-favourite-poems-series-one-scheme-of-work-11904418 Forty Favourite Poems Series Two (KS4) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-forty-favourite-poems-series-two-scheme-of-work-11902267 Forty Favourite Poems Series One includes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sea Fever, The Eagle, Silver, Inversnaid, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Snake, Cargoes, Sarah Byng and many more. Forty Favourite Poems Series Two includes: To a Mouse, A Case of Murder, Toads, Dover Beach, Stop All The Clocks, Ode to Autumn, The Thought Fox, If, Ozymandias, Leisure, Binsey Poplars and many more. See also our Language for Literature resource packs. Pupils need to talk and write about many aspects of the texts they use. To do this well they need to be familiar with the major technical terms. B & D Publishing’s two Language for Literature schemes of work spanning key stages 3 and 4 give pupils a sound understanding of many literary terms. The literary terms covered include Acrostics, Alliteration, Anecdote, Clerihew, Epic, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Myth, The Ballad, Fable, Assonance, Autobiography, Cinquain, Cliché, Elegy, Haiku, Ambiguity, Rhyme, Rhythm, Kenning, Legend, Ode, Parable, Parody, Personification, Sonnet, Limerick, Soliloquy, Pun, Spoonerisms, Dialect, Dialogue, Epitaph, Onomatopoeia, Proof Reading, Proverbs, Riddles, Anachronism, Allegory, Diaries and Journals, Dramatic Irony, Hyperbole and much more. Language for Literature Series One (KS3) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-one-scheme-of-work-11911638 Language for Literature Series Two (KS4) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-two-scheme-of-work-11911644 For even better value a KS3 and KS4 Language for Literature & Forty Favourite Poems Bundle is also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-poetry-bundle-ks3-and-ks4-11930332 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing

An assembly to celebrate World Fair Trade Day. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities. This beautifully-designed and editable 21-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities. Slide 1: What is World Fair Trade Day? Includes video. Slide 2: The Global Marketplace. Famous quote. Slide 3: Is our world trade really fair? Slide 4 and 5: Where does the profit go when you go shopping? Slide 6: What is fair trade shopping? Includes video. Slide 7: What are the advantages of fair-trade shopping for us all? Slide 8: What do you need to do to shop fair and be an ethical consumer? Slide 9: Final thought Slide 10: Form time activities title screen Slide 11: Form time activities: More detailed Fair-Trade video Slide 12: Form time activities: Poetry activity Slide 13: Form time activities: Colouring activity Slides 14-19: Form time activities: Fair Trade quiz – with answers Slides 20-21: Other form time ideas As reviewers have stated for previous resources shared on TES: “I sat down to plan my assembly for next week and found this resource, and it’s perfect. The best £2 spent. Thank you. I can teach this straight from the slides.” “Just buy it!” “Your resources have been life savers!” “Well worth the money and really saved my life” “I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.” “Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!” “They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.” “Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.” “These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”

A lesson based around Carol Ann Duffy’s Centenary poem for World War One - 'wound in Time’ Includes: thought provoking starter discussing a part of the United Nations Charter Context of the poem Discussion points around the poem Mini whiteboard task identifying poetic methods and effects Worksheet with questions about different words / lines in the poem Creative Writing opportunity Feedback On a well presented and tasteful PowerPoint. Can be very easily adapted for students of all abilities and year groups. At current level, well suited to HA year 9.

Description of National Limerick Day (May 12th of every year) including information about history, how to write a Limerick, rhyme scheme and various examples of Limericks for students to review and compare.

Three poems suitable for remembrance day activities, such as assemblies or lessons. World War I poetry and also World War II poetry

Create a meaningful and memorable Remembrance Day assembly with this comprehensive 5-page script. Designed for KS1 and KS2 students, this resource provides a sensitive and age-appropriate way to commemorate those who have served and sacrificed. Features: ★ Complete Script: Includes speaking parts for pupils and teachers, ensuring everyone can participate and contribute. ★ Thought-provoking Content: Explains the significance of Remembrance Day, the poppy symbol, and the two-minute silence. ★ Beautiful Poetry: Features poignant poems to enhance the atmosphere of reflection and remembrance. ★ Wreath-laying Ceremony: Includes a simple yet moving wreath-laying ceremony to honor fallen heroes. ★ Easy to Follow: Clear formatting and instructions make it easy to organize and deliver a successful assembly. Benefits: ★ Foster Understanding: Help children understand the importance of Remembrance Day and its historical context. ★ Encourage Reflection: Create a space for quiet contemplation and gratitude for those who have served. ★ Promote Values: Instill values of respect, empathy, and peace in young learners. ★ Build Community: Bring your school together in a shared act of remembrance. ★ Save Time: No need to write your own script - everything you need is provided. Honor the fallen and inspire future generations with this heartfelt Remembrance Day assembly script. Ideal for: KS1, KS2, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, whole school assembly, collective worship, British history, World War I, World War II.

Four wordsearch puzzles for World Poetry Day (21st March) suitable for differing ages, interests and abilities; Names of poets, poetic forms/terms, The Jabberwocky and the 2021 Presidential Inaugaration poem “The Hill We Climb” English/Literacy, Starter, Tutor Time , PSHE etc Each puzzles has an extended learning task included at the end.

A detailed lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke that explores attitudes before 1914 and how these changed as the First World War progressed. The lesson includes differentiated activities throughout, as well as detailed notes on the poem, a model paragraph, scaffolds, a range of engaging tasks to make war poetry relevant and interesting for students and more. Useful for Remembrance Day as well.

You will need a copy of Change Sings by Amanda Gorman. These slides incorporate a philosophical discussion including: ‘Should everybody look and act the same? Discuss’ and ‘If you could change, the world what would you change and why?’. The key concepts covered are: Social change, activism and restoration - all of which are explained in the slides. There are two more activities: including designing their own mural and performance poetry. Hope you have a fantastic world book day! Best wishes, Natalie - @classroom_sparkle (If the video links do not work: DM me

This resource empowers teachers to seamlessly integrate poetry into the lives of their students, both inside and outside the traditional classroom setting. By utilizing this resource, students not only gain a comprehensive understanding of various poetry types, but also engage in deep introspection and recognize the profound influence poetry holds in their lives. They develop an appreciation for the countless benefits and sheer enchantment that poetry bestows upon them. Moreover, this activity serves as a catalyst for fostering creativity and fostering emotional awareness among students. It encourages them to unleash their imagination, explore their unique perspectives, and express themselves freely through the transformative power of poetry. Through this activity, students not only develop a deeper connection with the art form but also cultivate vital emotional intelligence skills that will serve them well beyond the classroom. This resource includes: Page 1: All About Poetry - Mind Map Page 2: Benefits of Reading Poetry Page 3: I Can Read Poems - 7 Days Challenge Page 4: Common Types of Poetry Page 5: Common Types of Poetry - Empty Template Page 6: My Poem Page 7: National Poetry Day Acrostic - Pennant "------------------------------- ★Related items: Download the Spanish Version -------------------------------" "------------------------------ ★ You may like these resources: Dr. Seuss / Theodore Seuss Geisel - Activity National Poetry Day Activities National Reading Day Nonfiction Books Activity Nonfiction Books Activity - Google Slides Paul Bunyan - Enjoy a Good Story World Book Day Activity World Book Day Activity - Google Slides ------------------------------" Happy National Poetry Day!

1) PowerPoint - This lesson focuses on teaching students about the context of World War One so that they have some frame of reference for approaching the poems written in this period. Afterwards, it explores how the perceptions of war in poetry changed during this period from patriotic beliefs in its valour to disillusionment as World War One saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. This lesson opens with checking students prior knowledge of WW1. It then explains what the world was like during the 19th Century and the imperialist ideology. The beliefs of Europe’s’ Great Powers, the major causes of WW1, The assassination of Franz Ferdinand: A Shot that Changed the World, societal beliefs about war at the time, exploring propaganda posters from World War One, new technologies used in this war and the outcomes of the war. Things we will learn by the study of poetry from the First World War.