This is a free set of sixteen poems on the National Poetry Day 2025 theme of Play. Each poem is available as a free, downloadable poem poster for display in the classroom. The poems are aimed at KS2 but many of them could be adapted for KS1 and KS3.
- Meet four female sporting heroes
- Swing away your worries in the park
- Play the loudest instruments in the orchestra
- Create the perfect paper airplane
- Sing and dance around the playground
- Celebrate a friend
- Sort out those piles of Lego
- Beachcomb with a playful pup
- Discover a pond that likes to play Xbox
- Find out how an inhaler enables freedom to play
- Experiment with colour
- Invite someone around to play
- Take your boots on an adventure
- Play – fairly, now! – with a younger sibling
- Use your imagination to play in far-flung places…
There are also six free lesson plans exploring individual poems.
The file type is PDF.
These poems were first published on the Tyger Tyger Magazine website from 2022 to 2025.
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