Nobody Lives Here No More

Watch this video of a gnome reading a poem, written by our very own David Horner, all about a long lost town.

Daily Story Writing Challenge

Have you ever heard of Hint Fiction? Read on to find out more about a brand new daily writing challenge.

Thirteen Amazing Things To Do With A Poem

Have you ever sat down and made a list of different, whacky things you could do with a poem?

That is what we are going to encourage you to do with your children. Here’s how.

Here Is A Recipe For A School Trip

How well did your last school trip go?

Imagine taking all those nerve wracking calamities and turning them into a recipe!

Here is how you can do it.

How To Have Fun With Alliteration and Tongue Twisters

Alliteration is simply the repetition of words beginning with the same letter/sound.

Its hold on our senses begins as soon as we are made aware of language in childhood, with rhymes such as ‘Sing a Song of Sixpences’ and ‘A ring, a ring o’ roses’. Plus a host of alliterating characters from ‘Little Boy Blue’ to ‘Wee Willie Winkle’.

How can you use the power of alliteration in your clasroom?

Have Fun With Collective Nouns

The children will love this quick writing exercise all about collective nouns.

If The World Was Crazy, What Might It Look Like?

In this post, we are going to look at a poem by Shel Silverstein and give some ideas as to how it might be used.

This gives the children a chance to read some excellent poetry and then study it in detail and use what they discover to write poems of their own.

Round The World In 26 Letters

Armed with a dictionary, a thesaurus and, of course, an atlas you are going to take your children on an exciting journey round the world in exactly 26 letters!

The Game With No Name

Here is an intriguing game for you to play with your class. It’s all about words and sentences and is great fun!

10 Great Ideas for Using Rhyming With Younger Children

Rhyming teaches children how language works.  It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words. In this post we will show you 10 ways you can explore rhyming with your children.

How To Write Messages In Semaphore

What Is Semaphore?

This is a way of sending messages using flags.

These flags are usually square, each one divided diagonally, with each half in two contrasting colours, normally red and yellow.

The name comes from two Greek words: sema, meaning ‘sign’ and phero, meaning ‘to bear’ or ‘to carry’.  So, put together, they mean a sign carrier.

What Happened to Peter Piper’s Pickled Peppers?

We all know about Peter Piper and the pickled peppers he picked but have you ever wondered what happened to those pickled peppers? Read on to find out and then get your class to create some alliterating tongue twister stories of their own.