Hi I’m Simon Mole and I am a poet!
I’m a National Poetry Day Ambassador, with over ten years’ experience using rap and poetry in community and education settings. My new book Poetry Pizza has just been published, and to celebrate I am running a free live lesson write-a-long workshop for years 3, 4, 5 & 6 on DATE at TIME. Sign up here (LINK)

Your class will join thousands of other children across the country to play some fun (and quite silly) games, and create their own poetic masterpieces. I will be delivering a brand new workshop, inspired by some of my favourite poems from the book.

Once you sign up below you will be sent the zoom links and any tips to prepare your class in advance of the workshop, including a printable sheet with sentence starters for younger groups and/or reluctant writers.

Wednesday 4th October 11am - 11.50am

Sign up below…

And here is a playlist of me performing a few of my favourite poems from the book, that you could show your class so they have met me before the workshop…

If they are keen to do have a go at some poetry themselves before the session, they could try this fun interactive tutorial video which takes them through a step by step process to write an (actually genuinely good) 5 line poem in 5 minutes. Realistically this may take 15 minutes (but it didn’t sound as good as a title!) depending how independently your children scribe and/or how much assistance and motivation is needed to get them writing!