Nothing for ages, then three come at once! Sorry, it's just the way the mood takes me...

Small celebration on Thursday at school. One of my "livelier" boys, full of cheek and always getting told off, who has seemed hitherto immune to literacy although quite good at maths, came to school with a crumpled up bit of paper to "show and tell" about.

I am thrilled. Although difficult to make out the exact words - like I say, this boy is writing-phobic and doesn't have an elegant hand - something about Pokemon - it was immediately clear that he has written his own two page pastiche of the poem "Walking With My Iguana" by Brian Moses.

We listened to the poet reciting this poem and others, and did some group work chanting and singing poems with actions and adding instruments and it obviously struck a chord with my 7 year old and probably for the first time ever, he has wanted to write something!

Thankyou Brian Moses! Go here to listen to what we enjoyed.