CLiPPA
Resource type: Book awards
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2
Region(s): All of UK
The CLiPPA – the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award – showcases the best published poetry for children and is the only award of its kind in the UK. The award is judged by a panel of poets and literacy experts.
There is also a CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme that encourages schools to explore and perform the poetry on the shortlist.
Read the shortlist and winner announcements for the CLiPPA 2023.
Timetable:
- The shortlist for the CLiPPA 2024 will be announced on 8th May.
- The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on 12th July.
Cost: Free.
About Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: CLPE is an independent charity with over 40 years’ experience of providing evidence-based CPD training and high-quality resources to support teachers.
Further resources:
- CLPE provide teaching sequences for all CLiPPA shortlisted poetry collections.
- See previous CLiPPA winners here.
- Explore how poetry can be used to raise engagement and attainment in reading and writing with CLiPPA winning poet Kate Wakeling in a one-day course from CLPE on 22nd May.
- The National Poetry Centre for Primary Schools website hosts a range of teaching resources, videos and poetry recommendations to support the teaching of poetry in primary schools.
- Raise the profile of poetry in your classroom with the weekly Poetry Prompts videos by Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.
- Listen to poets reading their poems aloud on the Children’s Poetry Archive and explore their bank of ideas and activities to bring poetry alive in the classroom.
- For schools interested in running poetry workshops, both the Poetry Society and Apples and Snakes can help organise in-school events with poets.
- Authors Live On Demand has a bank of recorded events featuring poets performing and talking about their work. See the selection here.
- Find further resources to support the teaching of poetry here.
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