It has been a truly inspiring 1st week for the Discover Children's Story Centre's (@discover_story) summer school. Inspired by a CP project I worked on… Read More »Creating Literacy interventions with actors at Discover Children’s Story Centre Summer School
Absolutely thrilled to be able to share this taster trailer of Tree Child. The show will be touring Leicester libraries from July more info and… Read More »Tree Child Trailer Week One
I had a fantastic time today discussing ways to raise and work with difficult issues as practitioners and teachers in schools. There were some great… Read More »Celebrating Difference
I am thrilled to share that I have my first children’s poetry collection coming out with Janetta Otter-Barry books of Frances Lincoln next year. It’s… Read More »New Children’s Poetry Collection
I spent the yesterday morning judging poetry at St Anne’s church in Limehouse. On arrival at this magnificent building I was presented with the daunting… Read More »Poetry Judging
After a weekend performing at the Big Chill and listening in a packed “Words in Motion” tent to the marvellous John Hegley create a choir… Read More »Choreopoetry in Luton
I recently ran a storytelling workshop at Richmix in Shoreditch. It was a one and a half hour session with ages 4+. Richmix have for… Read More »Poems For Kids And Puppets
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to be presented with a wall of poems inspired by an outdoor session I led with a year two class.… Read More »Poems generated from outdoor learning session
If you like the game 20 questions – where one must guess smothers identity by asking a series of yes/no questions, you’ll love this. This… Read More »Play “What am I?” to improve literacy”
This week I have been working in two schools in Essex for Creative Partnerships consulting on ways of improving literacy skills using outdoor apparatus. I’ve… Read More »Winter is as white as a frozen rainbow