Booking for this Masterclass session goes live on Wednesday 10 September 2025.
Suitable for: Class teachers (EYFS-KS2), English Subject Leads, Senior Leadership.
Relevant areas of the National Curriculum: Language and vocabulary, oracy, reading, writing personal, social, emotional development.
Date and Time: Wednesday 17 June 2026, 9am to 3.30pm plus optional twilight networking to 5pm.
Venue: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, 44 Webber Street, London SE1 8QW (map).
Venue accessibility: Step free access, accessible toilets and accessible parking.
Description of session
Full day teacher CPD.
Explore how you can effectively build a spine for poetry across all Primary Key Stages, in line with the recommendations of the new Reading Framework.
Detail of activity
This Masterclass will be delivered by an expert advisory teacher from CLPE in partnership with award-winning children’s poet Valerie Bloom.
We will explore:
- How to engage children in reading and performing poetry, develop effective writing and raise engagement and attainment in line with the requirements of the National Curriculum.
- How you can build a spine for poetry across the Early Years
and Primary phases. - High quality poetry collections that can be used at different ages and stages.
- The essential approaches and experiences that engage children with poetry.
Key areas of focus
- Develop strategies to incorporate poetry into the wider curriculum.
- Learn how to develop and extend children’s understanding and use of vocabulary through poetry.
- Develop a wide knowledge of poets and poetry.
- Look at ways to engage children with a variety of poetic styles and forms.
- Investigate how poetry supports the development of reading fluency.
- Use poetry to support pupils to respond to texts at a greater depth and develop deeper levels of inference when reading.
- Look at ways to help children foster their own authentic voices through writing poetry.
- Explore ideas and activities designed to support children to write effectively to make impact on the reader.
Takeaway
All participants will gain expert insights from the CLPE’s Power of Poetry research project, a free copy of CLPE’s Poetry: What We Know Works booklet, as well as receiving a poetry collection for each primary phase (EYFS, KS1 and KS2) to help with the immediate implementation of the day’s training. Resources provided will including teaching plans to support schools in providing a range and breadth of poetry as children move through the Early Years and Primary phases.
