Closing Date: Friday 19th of October 2018

Poetry Wonderland is here to inspire your pupils aged 7-11 to get writing!

Let pupils explore poem themes in a fun and exciting way before writing their own original poem. Our optional lesson plan gets pupils out of their seats and lets creativity soar...

The theme is open, so let pupils decide what they’d like to write about; tailor Poetry Wonderland to your latest topic, a book or choose from the suggestions we’ve provided in the pupils’ colourful worksheets.

In Poetry Wonderland anything is possible, where will your pupils’ imaginations take them...?

Rules

Only one entry per pupil, there is no limit to the number of entries per school
Poems can be on the entry form or A4 sheet of paper
Poems must be your pupils' own work
Ensure that all pupils include their name and age on their entries

Closing Date: Friday 19th of October 2018

Prizes

For Schools

The school with the best set of entries will win the Young Writers’ Award of Excellence, which they can showcase in their school. They will also win a Huge bundle of books for their school library.

For Pupils

10x Poetry Wonderland goody bags packed full of fun...

How To Enter

If you need more colourful worksheets, please go to Downloads / Resources Request
Send your entries, along with your school entry form, to:
FREEPOST RSLY-AUJA-RAHY
Young Writers PS
Remus House
Peterborough
PE2 9BF
Alternatively, you can upload poems to Online Entries. Or email them to competitions@youngwriters.co.uk

Closing Date: Friday 19th of October 2018

Downloads

To see the competition pack, including Full Competition Information, Poster, Lesson Plan, resources, and more… please fill in the short form below. All download links will appear once the form is sent and the links will also be emailed to you.

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Writing Tips

Tip #1

Download the Poetry Wonderland door poster or make your own – this could even be a class activity!

By having an entrance to Poetry Wonderland, pupils can quite literally open their door to imagination! You could decorate the classroom, or have a wonderland corner, with lots of sensory objects to help pupils think of wild, weird and wonderful ideas to write about.

Imagination has no limits, so why not see how creative your pupils can be in Poetry Wonderland?

Tip #2

Who can create the weirdest, or wildest or most wonderful theme idea?

Each pupil needs a piece of paper and a pencil. They need to write 3 titles across the top of their page:

Object	Activity	Adjective
Spoon	Surfing	Glittery
Dog biscuit	Knitting	Long
Bike	Homework	Terrifying

Now give them 3 minutes to list as many words in each list as they can. Then give them a couple of minutes to read through their words and create one idea using any object, activity and adjective they’ve written down.

E.g. Knitting a glittery dog biscuit

Let the class decide who had the wackiest idea! You could even compose a poem as a class based on the idea to get your pupils ready to write their own poem!