Poetry CPD and Training for Teachers
Poetry is now an important and central pillar of the new literacy curriculum in England and Wales. It can be used as a powerful tool to help children to significantly improve their reading, writing and oracy skills with a new emphasis on children learning and PERFORMING either poetry written by themselves or that of professional children’s writers.
My new poetry CPD training empowers primary teachers and teaching assistants with a multitude of practical and fun ideas and techniques for using poetry as a learning tool not just in literacy but across the whole primary curriculum in KS1 and KS2.
Poetry CPD training events are available in two formats:
- A practical and activity based intensive 2 hour twilight written especially for primary teachers and teaching assistants in KS1 and KS2
- A whole INSET day details of which are below
Prices are available on request.
Poetry Teaching Ideas
- 📚 Spine Poetry KS2 | Creative Poetry Using Book Titles (Fun, Low-Prep Activity)
- Poetry and the National Year of Reading 2026 (Go All In!) 📚 How to Make Reading Poetry Fun in Your Primary School (With FREE Downloads)
- KS2 Poetry Cold Writes & Baseline Assessment ✏️ How to Assess Poetry Writing Without Over-Marking (FREE Downloads)
- KS2 Poetry Sentence Stems & Scaffolds (So All Pupils Can Succeed) ✏️ FREE Download: Ready-to-Use Poetry Sentence Stems for KS2
- KS2 Poetry Model Texts (WAGOLLs) Teachers Can Use Instantly FREE Download: 5 Ready-to-Use Example Poems
- KS2 Poetry Lesson Plans (Done-For-You) ✏️ | 5 Complete Lessons Teachers Can Use Tomorrow (FREE Downloads)
Poetry Resource Pack
KS2 Poetry Resource Pack – Inspire your class with ready-to-use lessons, fun activities, and a FREE poetry book included! Click to preview the pack and see what’s inside.




