Kingsmead School Pigeon Project
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On Wednesday 5th October 2016 Kingsmead author and poet Sally Crabtree to as part of National Poetry day. Sally is international known for her work and regally travels all around the world working and educating children in how to be creative with words.
As part of the 2016 National Poetry celebrations Kingsmead School was selected to undertake a new and exciting project that is directed at mixing, poetry, creative thinking and expression along side the natural world and in thecae of this workshop Pigeons and how they live and race.
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Pigeon Poetry
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During the day the students took part in a number of workshop activities which included making poetry biscuits, talking and coming up with short poems on the theme of pigeons in the form of a Cinquains. The pigeons was then observed both inside the loft and also flying around the school field, all students then came up with words and ideas for their poems from these observational. Once everyone returned to the classroom everyone made poems and they shared these with the class. Theses poems were then attached to the pigeons legs and the students let them go to allow there poems to fly with the pigeons in the sky.
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All in all the day was a great way to get new and exiting ideas into the school and to allow the students and the pigeon project here at Kingsmead to participate n National Poetry Day.
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Bellow are some of the poems that the students came up with throughout the day and there is a small video to show students partaking in some of the activities on offer.
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