A Harvest of Wild Words Over three summers the Poetry Boxes have been out harvesting words across the moors. The first year, 2014 was at Valley of Rocks and from June to the end of August the six little tins collected over 2000 poems. Year two (2015) saw the tins located at Tarr Steps, in the heart of Exmoor and a similar number of poems were written in the books. The final summer was Dunster village, whose books and tins were collected in early this September, and archived w

Recently I was invited to Storywalk with Old Cleeve school in Somerset which was really rewarding. The school is part of the first school system so children move on after yr 4, and for me it made sense to work from the eldest first. So on day one yr 4 and I enjoyed a Storywalk called 'The Forest Tree King' which is a great little tale with repeating internal form. When back in the class, the pupils rewrote the story elements, after a creative literacy workshop, and then typed