The Vale Primary Academy

My first time ever at The Vale Primary Academy in Knottingley, and what a lovely visit it was! Best bit of the day- having my own, personalised car parking space! Well...not strictly the BEST bit of my day, but a very nice way to start!

I worked with Y4,5, and 6 today, and they were awesome. I was teaching them about performance poetry and they picked it up no problem at all. Not only that, but each class devised and created a brand new performance poem each.

Year 4's was one entitled 'My Pet Shark' and went from being almost eaten by a Shark, to it turning into our friendly pet!

Year 5 wanted to write about a Platypus (?!!!), and ended up with a whole host of verses all about different animals that had escaped from the zoo in London, and the chaos they had caused. Birds pooing on the Queen's dress and shoes was my favourite bit - especially the bum wiggle to signify a bird doing its business. Brilliant!

Year 6 created a poem about a guy called Dustbin Drake (or was he actually a dustbin? Who knows? Does it matter? Certainly doesn't!). I learned a new word - 'scarfing down' for 'scoffing down'. I also found out that a baby's nappy is full of 'Piccalilli poo' (think of the colour...!).

So thank you everyone for a fab day. And I'll see you all on Wednesday (Ks1 and Y3 that day) before the final performances on Friday morning.

Fab!

SUPERSONIC GRAN IS HERE!!!

She's landed! She's here! Get ready! Book number four is out!!!

If you want a copy, just email me at conrad.burdekin@sky.com  If you want two, great. If you want 102, even better!

I'm reallay happy with this book - the cover is my favourite so far. Thanks to Lilian (my illustrator) and David (my designer, printer, organiser etc.etc.!).

My Gran is rocket powered

Her bottom sure is chronic

She flies so fast it's made the news

My Gran is Super - SONIC!

IN THE NEWS!

So...I've made it into Bradford's Telegraph and Argus newspaper. A really big spread, and some lovely photographs. But I'm not sure about the quality of the writing. I've been made to sound rather dense, and some of the sentences leave a little bit to be desired! But hey ho! Never mind!

What is rather bizarre is that it was in the September 1st edition...I actually went to Hill Top to do the day back in February!!!!!

Anyway, here's the link...

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/education/education_news/13639212.Father_takes_inspiration_from_his_little_ones_to_make_poetry_fun_for_children/?ref=mac

Enjoy!