A poem to read to your class at the end of a school year.

Berries, Bows and Mistletoe is a heart-warming Christmas play for young children, with a magical woodland theme. The play is narrated by an adult with simple songs for children to sing with familiar nursery rhyme tunes. It is Christmas Eve and Little Fox is lonely, cold and hungry in Winter Wood. She is told to look for a shining light and sure enough when she finds it, she is welcomed into the cosy and warm home of the woodland animals and forest folk. This resource comes with suggestions for simple costumes and scenery ideas for a truly magical Christmas celebration.

This free resource includes 9 original songs and rhymes for nursery and reception classrooms, covering the popular themes of birthdays, self-portraits, growing, playtime and tidy-up time.

This resource includes a simple poem for younger children about the meaning of Valentine’s Day. An accompanying sheet gives children the opportunity to write words associated with Valentine’s Day taken directly from the poem as well as ones of their own inspired by the poem. This resource also includes a simple mathematics activity about pattern using Valentine’s Day themed pictures. These can be laminated and used as a continuous provision activity.

This PowerPoint clearly shows each of the tricky words from phases 2 to 5. This resource has an autumn theme and is introduced and concluded with a simple song to the the tune of ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’.

This PowerPoint clearly shows each of the tricky words from phases 2 to 5. This resource has a winter theme and is introduced and concluded with a simple song to the tune of ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’. This resource will wake up your phonics class on a cold and frosty morning.

This PowerPoint clearly shows each of the tricky words from phases 2 to 5. This resource has a springtime theme and is introduced and concluded with a simple song to the tune of ‘Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary’. This resource will brighten up your phonics lesson on a spring day.

This ‘tidy up song’ can be sung with your class to encourage everyone to have ‘helping hands’ at tidy up time. It is sung to the well known nursery ryhme, ‘Wind the Bobbin Up’.

This resource includes a simple song that children can sing before and after practising the sight recognition of the Phase 2 to 5 tricky words.

Many teachers, I mean children, love a snow day. Share this original poem with your class as they anticipate the first snowfall of the year. This may spark a discussion about the conditions that are needed for snowfall and looking at weather forecasts.

A simple acrostic poem about the Remembrance Poppy

This resource contains 26 original poems covering the seasonal themes of Back to School, Harvest, Autumn, Bonfire Night, Winter, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Pancake Day, Easter, Spring and Summer. Many of the poems have activity sheets to accompany them.

Three original poems to bring a Viking history topic into your English lessons. This resource includes a template and word bank to inspire your class to write their own Viking acrostic poems.

‘Outdoor Ed’ is a performance poem that can be used to celebrate your school’s outdoor environment as an extension to the classroom. It can be used during an assembly to introduce an outdoor learning week where children are given the opportunity to share their own ideas about the learning that could take place outside, just like Ed did.

Encourage your class to reflect on their hopes and dreams for the new year with these two original poems. An activity sheet accompanies each poem so that children can set themselves goals which they hope to achieve during the year.

Bring Hollywood to your Year Six Leavers’ assembly with these 3 songs that can be performed to the theme tunes from Star Wars, Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones. This assembly includes conversations which acknowledge how the children might be feeling about going to high school and gives them words of encouragement and praise for all of their achievements at primary school.

Roll up, gather round, the Pancake Parade's in town! This introduction to Shrove Tuesday and performance poem has just the right mix for a Pancake Day themed assembly. This performance poem can also be used for a Pancake Day themed English lesson with a focus on verbs.

Explore environmental issues such as global warming with these original Earth-themed poems.