ENGLISH SUBJECT LEADERS’ CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE (AUTUMN 2007)

 At the English Subject Leaders’ Conference today we had Andrew Motion the Poet Laureate as the guest speaker.  He has set up a website www.poetryarchive.org which has a great search engine for poets and poems. It has a fab glossary of poetry and literary terms such as metaphor and simile with recorded examples you can play to the children – great for inspiring Podcasting.  Also there are recordings of poets etc.   Listen to Roald Dahl reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7428 There are biographies of poets and all sorts of fab stuff  – CHECK IT OUT!