March 21st is
World Poetry Day
which must mean
everyone will be
reading, writing, performing,
listening to
poetry
all
day
on this day.
Won’t they?
World Book Day 1 March 2012
I had a brilliant day in Chester at Oldfield Primary School who invited me to work with them on a special poetry day for World Book Day. After a very early start and long drive the warm welcome I received was, itself, welcome.
I saw lots of Wallys and discovered that Snow White teaches there. The staff (as you’ll see from the photo) were a colourful crowd and the kids were equally impressive.
They were great to perform to and the workshops produced some wonderful work which was shared at the end of the day.
James Read (y4 I think) wrote a poem in my honour. Although modesty forbids me from publishing the whole thing it ends like this…
Read his poems on Friday and you’ll be glad.
Read his poems on Saturday, then repeat them to your dad.
Read them on Sunday and you won’t feel low.
Then rush around and tell everyone you know
Bernard Young, Bernard Young
He writes great poems, does Bernard Young
Highcliffe Primary, Guisborough 31st October & 1st November
Thanks for making me welcome. I enjoyed my two day visit very much.
Day one started off in the hall with a performance to the whole school. Great joining in on Brilliant and Ref Rap kids. Loads of poems were written. Individual and group ones. And a few class ones (with added guitar) when I worked with Reception and Yr 1 & 2.
Great to start with Reception on the morning of day 2 and finish the day with a yr 6 session. There were poems about pirates, swimming, dancing, teachers, football (of course) and a lump in the throat one about a soldier going to war.
Days like these remind me why I love being a poet who visits schools.
Bernard Young
Bernard is a guitar playing poet and has been writing poems and ‘songs’ since his early teens i.e. for ages! These days it’s still what he loves to do, but now he does it for a living. So he considers himself to be a very lucky man indeed.
Performances have been given in a variety of settings (from prisons to pubs, leisure centres to libraries, as well as colleges, schools, playgroups and supermarkets!). He has performed at many literary festivals including Hull, Ilkley, Lancaster and the Young Readers Birmingham Festival.
His poems feature in numerous anthologies of poetry for young readers (including The Works, The Poetry Store, Wizard Poems, Pet Poems, Family Poems, Space Poems, Spectacular Schools, How To Survive School, The Secret Life of Pants!) and have been broadcast on local and national radio and on BBC’s The One Show.
For more information about Bernard see: https://bernardyoung.wordpress.com/about/
Bernard Young Poet 