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.
An integral part of the CLiPPA is the CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme that encourages schools to explore and perform the poetry on the shortlist.
Read our shortlist announcement for the CLiPPA 2025.
Timetable:
- The shortlist for the CLiPPA will be announced on 23rd April 2025.
- The winner will be announced at an event in London on 20th June 2025.
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:
- Explore the free teaching sequences provided for all CLiPPA shortlisted poetry collections.
- The National Poetry Centre for Primary Schools website hosts a range of free 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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