I hope you have all had wonderful holidays. Teachers will be thinking about going back to work, planning a few lessons, probably. I hope you will be thinking about some poetry orientated lessons for National Poetry Day, which is coming up on Thursday 4th October. If you need a little help, there are some FREE LESSON PLANS and other resources for National Poetry Day on the NPD website.
The theme this year is CHANGE. There are some poems about change on the NPD website here: https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poems/change-poems/
I still have some availability that week, if you want me to come to your school to perform and run workshops, but contact me soon to avoid disappointment.
This is a poem of mine that I have recently written on this theme, which might be suitable for KS2 and above to read and discuss.
Changes
I recall
us playing bat and ball,
my daughter and I,
under an ever changing sky
(sun – clouds – sun)
for year after year.
We played on this familiar beach
with those bats, and that ball,
which I’ve now passed on
to a couple of friends with a son
still young enough to have some fun
with them.
We,
my daughter and I,
(she being grown up
and busy busy busy)
had left them for I don’t know how long
among the cobwebs in memory’s forgotten cupboard.
It’s good
to see them being used again.
Please spread the words (and pictures)