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.

Everything Touches: a reading and performance activity KS2 For National Poetry Day 2013 by Mandy Coe Based on poems by Roger McGough and Wes Magee

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.

Cut up and shuffle the images and verses. For National Poetry Day 2013 by Mandy Coe. Designed to encourage close-reading and collaboration, this activity of matching different bodies/forms of water with its corresponding poem can be done in pairs or groups. Adapt the game for different age-groups by deleting the more obvious titles!