Echoes from a Y5 Poetry Retreat

Dutch Ovens and Poetry with Daddy Walker

In this episode, I chat with my Dad about poetry and the experience of finding a love of writing in spite of negative school experience. He shares some of his brilliant comic tales of life growing up in a Yorkshire mining village, and shares about how he developed the confidence to see himself as a writer. It was lovely to do this, and his poetry is very silly.

Echoes from a Y5 Poetry Retreat

This first episode is a chronicle of various snippets and interviews taken during the poetry retreat that Adisa and I led in the South Downs. Over the course of the visit, pupils developed confidence, oracy, an understanding and appreciation for poetry and for each other’s culture and life experiences. Some great moments of humour, dialogue and reflection are captured.