Tag Archives: Poems

Coalition Christmas 3

14 Dec

Coalition Christmas 3

Review of 2012 (with apologies to Good King Wenceslas)

Ozymandias or Goveymandias?

7 Dec

Ozymandias or Goveymandias?

Shelley’s Ozymandias one of poems in the “Poetry by Heart” competition.

The water was burning

12 Jul

The water was burning

Competition challenge for pupils from former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen: complete the rest of a poem starting with “The water was burning”.

The Secretary of State for Education

11 Jun

The Secretary of State for Education

Michael Gove to announce that children as young as five will be expected to recite poetry and that learning a foreign language will be compulsory from the age of seven in England’s primary schools.

MacGove

23 Apr

MacGove

With apologies to Shakespeare on his birthday, and to Jamie Oliver who is concerned about food standards in academies.