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Help your children write their very own first poem using our fun, easy 'All About Me' template and, your setting could win £1,000!

It's a lovely way to build literacy and creative skills, plus the activity supports the Ealy Years Foundation Stage literacy requirements too!

You can view 2020's winners here.

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1st Prize - £1,000
Make sure you tell us why you should win and what you'd spend the prize money on. 

Runner-Up - Lending Library
One setting will receive a huge bundle of books!

PLUS

Complimentary book for every school featuring their children's work.

[Student Prizes] =>

Certificate for each child whose work is accepted for publication. 

Free bookmark and sticker for all children taking part. 

[Winners Subheading] => We're delighted to announce the winners... [Winners Intro] =>

Sarah, Manager, Music Box Nursery, West Midlands - 2021's £1.000 winner!

"I’m immensely proud of all the children who wrote such wonderful poems, I’m sure we have a future best-selling author in our midst. I am over the moon for my staff team who, throughout this pandemic, have worked tirelessly, even setting up our own food bank for the local community. This is truly a cause for celebration. All £1,000 is going to transform our nursery garden."

[Rules] =>

Only one entry per child, there is no limit to the number of entries per setting.

Independent entrants are welcome, please provide your full postal address rather than the nursery details.

Poems can be on the entry form or an A4 sheet of paper.

Poems must be each child's own work.

Ensure that all entrants' name, age and setting are included on the entry form.

Poems can be written out by an adult.

[Tips] =>

Let’s play rhyming hopscotch!

On a hopscotch grid, place 10 images, 1 in each square.

Game 1: Call out what is on one of the images, a child then hopscotches to the correct image. If they can, they tell you a rhyming word. If they can’t, you tell them a word that rhymes with it instead.

Game 2: Have 10 images, in rhyming pairs.
E.g.
Bed and head
Spoon and moon
Cat and hat
Dog and frog
Hand and sand

Children play hopscotch as usual, collecting the pictures, then they match the pairs once all have been collected.

Check out these books!

There are so many lovely rhyming books available, here are our favourites!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

10 Little Penguins

Green Eggs and Ham

Fox’s Socks

Each Peach, Pear, Plum

Hairy Mclary

Play the crayon game!

1. Grab a box of different coloured crayons (remove purple and orange to make life much easier!)

2. Sing this song to the children: Lots of crayons in this box, can you find the one that rhymes with

Have a poetry tea party!

Gather toys and objects associated with nursery rhymes, e.g.
Row, row your boat
Humpty Dumpty
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Tiny Tim

Layout a tea party and invite children to come and role play. At this tea party, everyone has to sing their favourite nursery rhymes... you can even let the children make up their own silly songs and rhymes!

This fun game helps children learn the parts of their body as well as rhymes!

Point to a body part, such as your eye, and see how many words the children can suggest that rhyme with it!
Here are a few easy to rhyme body parts:

Eye: sky, pie, lie, why
Lip: hip, chip, ship, snip
Knee: wee, sea, bee, key
Head: bed, said, bread, red
Hair: bear, scare, square, prayer
Leg: peg, egg, beg
Hand: sand, land, band
Bum: gum, drum, mum

Assess the stages of rhyme...

Where are your children at?

Stage 1: Hearing rhyme – has grown accustomed to hearing and repeating rhymes.

Stage 2: Recognising rhyme – can identify two words that rhyme.

Stage 3: Producing rhyme – can think of a word that rhymes with another.

The last five weeks of tips should have helped children reach stage 2, but the activities are timeless so keep using them!

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Help your children write their very own first poem using our fun, easy 'All About Me' template!

It's a lovely way to build literacy and creative skills, plus the activity supports the Ealy Years Foundation Stage literacy requirements too!

If you haven't got a printer, don't panic! You're welcome to help them write out their poem and send us a photo instead! Or you can complete the editable PDF and email it back to us - the entry form is suitable for both options.

[Independent Prizes] =>

For Nurseries

1st Prize - £1,000 
To spend on any resources or setting improvements!

Runner-Up - Lending Library
One setting will receive a huge bundle of books!

[Independent Rules] =>

Only one entry per person.

Independent entrants are welcome, please provide your full postal address rather than the nursery details.

Poems can be on the entry form or an A4 sheet of paper.

The template must be completed to enter.

Poems can be written out by an adult.

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