A guide to choosing your own fate despite the odds being against you using ‘Thirteen’ by Caleb Femi. For Key Stages 3-5.

This guide offers practical steps to utilise Poetry By Heart’s vast online collections to enjoy this National Poetry Day challenge on your own or with friends. For Key Stages 3-5 and featuring ‘We Wear the Mask’ by Paul Dunbar.

There are lots of ways to celebrate poetry on National Poetry Day, or any day of the year. Take a look at our bank of resources to get your class started on their poetry day and to celebrate with us!

National Poetry Day, which this year is on 28th September, is an annual celebration of poetry and all things poetical. It’s about everybody sharing poetry, reading poetry, writing poetry, and enjoying poetry! For schools this can be a chance to make more of something already enjoyed throughout the school or it can be a launch pad for new experience and enjoyment. This toolkit is full of hints and tips to get your school celebrations started and to support best practice in the teaching of poetry.

There are lots of ways to celebrate poetry on National Poetry Day, or any day of the year. Take a look at our bank of online resources (for KS 1 - 5) to get your class started on their poetry day and check out our new toolkit which is full of ideas and inspiration. We also have posters to decorate your classroom, ideas for inspiring everyone to write a poem and advice on how to arrange for a poet to visit your school.

National Poetry Day 2017 is on 28th September and the theme is Freedom. National Poetry Day is about everybody sharing poetry, reading poetry, writing poetry, and enjoying poetry. Use this special resource created by the Betjeman Poetry Prize and explore ideas of freedom inspired by W E Henley's poem Invictus, and Nelson Mandela.

National Poetry Day 2017 is on 28 September. This activity was created by Georgi Gill for The Scottish Poetry Library. Inspired by Georgi's poem My Cat Mitzi it will help children explore the poem and how it makes them feel, and contains practical tips on writing poetry.

National Poetry Day is on 28th September, an annual celebration of poetry and all things poetical. This is one of a range for resources to help get everybody sharing poetry, reading poetry, writing poetry, and enjoying poetry! Read this poem from Kate Wakeling's award winning new collection Moon Juice with years 3, 4 and 5, then use the suggestions to start the class thinking and talking, and writing their own poems.

National Poetry Day 2017 is on 28 September and the theme is freedom. It’s about everybody sharing poetry, reading poetry, writing poetry, and enjoying poetry. This activity was created for National Poetry Day 2017 by Russ Litten, First Story writer-in-residence in Hull. Called Yesterday and Today it includes ideas and inspiration to get young people thinking about and writing poetry.

This e-book was produced by Gaby Morgan from Macmillan Children's Books for National Poetry Day 2015.

Discussion and reading activities on the theme of water for KS3-4. For National Poetry Day 2013 by Mandy Coe. Including poems by Joan Murray and Brian Patten.

A free anthology from Macmillan Children's Books and National Poetry Day, featuring the National Poetry Day Children's Ambassadors. Enjoy!

Handfish and Jellyfish: writing, games and paper cut-outs for KS1. For National Poetry Day 2013 by Mandy Coe. Based on a poem by Roger McGough This activity includes writing poems, performance, colouring in cut-outs and a film-clip – all exploring NPDs theme of ‘water’. Depending on your Year Group, this activity can be broken into a series of short activities, or linked together and expanded to include an exploration of the water cycle and writing a short poem on the journey of one drop of water.

Forward Arts Foundation hope you make use of this fantastic FREE classroom resource for National Poetry Day 2016 on the theme of Messages. The Betjeman Poetry Prize presents this activity called 'The Sea Says' for Key Stage 1 - 2 students. This is part of a wider collaborative effort with multiple partners, including the Scottish Poetry Library, the Poetry Society, The Emma Press, and the Poetry School.

Use this magnificent new lesson plan to spark off classroom discussion and inspire students to write their own poetry. It is written by poet Cheryl Moskowitz and features a huge variety of poems, all loosely related to the theme of stars. This lesson plan features a poem by Christina Rossetti.

Use this magnificent new lesson plan to spark off classroom discussion and inspire students to write their own poetry. It is written by poet Cheryl Moskowitz and features a huge variety of poems, all loosely related to the theme of stars. This lesson plan features a poem by Christina Rossetti.

Use this magnificent new lesson plan to spark off classroom discussion and inspire students to write their own poetry. It is written by poet Cheryl Moskowitz and features a huge variety of poems, all loosely related to the theme of stars. This lesson plan has works by Dorothy Parker and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

One of a series of National Poetry Day teacher resources on the theme of Messages. "Postcard Poems" draws on a poem by Diana Brodie. The resource fosters enjoyment of poetry and is part of a collaborative effort between the National Poetry Day partners, who include the Poetry Society, Apples and Snakes, and the Scottish Poetry Library. For KS1 and KS2

One of a series of National Poetry Day teacher resources on the theme of Messages. "Love Letters between Inanimate Objects " draws on a poem by Sarah Kay that can also be found on YouTube. This resource fosters creative and critical thinking around poetry and is part of a collaborative effort between the National Poetry Day partners, who include First Story, Apples and Snakes, and the Scottish Poetry Library. For KS3, KS4 and KS5

One of a series of National Poetry Day teacher resources on the theme of Messages. "A Message to the Future " draws on the poetry of Roger McGough. The resource fosters creative and critical thinking around poetry and is part of a collaborative effort between the National Poetry Day partners, who include the Poetry Society, Apples and Snakes, and the Emma Press For KS1 and KS2.