Share these 5 original poems with your new class and inspire some fabulous 'back to school' poetry writing. 'Hello To My New Teacher' will inspire your new class to tell you lots of important things about themselves. A sheet is included for each child to draw a self portrait on for a welcoming classroom display. Your class can use the writing frame and word bank to write an acrostic poem about the new school year inspired by the 'September' poem. Use the 'Our Class Rules' poem to remind your class about the school rules and why they are needed or to inspire a new set of class rules. 'The Classroom Fairy' poem is a fun poem to remind children to keep their classroom tidy. 'Teacher's Lost Her Memory Stick' is a funny poem about something that could happen to even the most organised of teachers. This poem could inspire your class to generate adjectives and adverbs that describe how the teacher feels and behaves.

Bring the seaside into your English lesson with these original poems. Includes activities to decorate bunting and to write a seaside acrostic poem.

Bring festive fun into your classroom with these 3 original Christmas poems. Activities include: writing a Christmas acrostic poem, drawing a magical Christmas Eve scene through a window and decorating a crown and a placemat for the Christmas party.

‘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.

These original poems and accompanying activities will bring Spring time into your English lesson. Use ‘adjective twigs’ to build a nest and write a Spring acrostic poem.

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.

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.

Celebrate Harvest with this performance poem parade! Hosted by Dingle Dangle the Scarecrow, the harvest of cereals, vegetables and fruit are celebrated as they walk down the red carpet. Well known Harvest songs can be performed at any point during the assembly to compliment this performance poem/parade.

This original Christmas play can be combined with well-known Christmas carols and songs (song suggestions are included). Spike the Star tells Bella the Bauble, Holly the Christmas Wreath and Stitch the Stocking, why they should 'hang on' and decorate the house for Christmas. This play includes the Nativity story.

This is a Year Six Leavers' assembly with an Abba twist. All that's needed is 4 Abba backing tracks. Your Year Six class will love it!

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.

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.