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Angela Topping's Blog · 4d ago

Group poem from Romiley Primary school, Stockport

Night Time The bell rings for the end of school. I head home, stuff down a biscuit jump on my bike and ride to funmaker park.   Teatime, wonderful food aromas. In the kitchen, ravenous family rhinos share their daytime adventures.    Sunset’s fiery glow slowly sinks into the distance. Citrus o...
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Angela Topping's Blog · 1M ago

Poem for the sinking of the Titanic, 100 years ago tonight.

One of my poems for the Titanic, a topic which has fascinated me for a long time. 100 years ago tonight, she sank to terrible loss of life.
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Angela Topping's Blog · 1M ago

The Butcher’s Shop Poem – Advice for AS students.

The Butcher’s Shop   The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed, dignified in martyrs’ deaths. They hang stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile, white apron stained with who knows what, fingers fat as...
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Angela Topping's Blog · 1M ago

Monster Olympics – another group poem

Monster Olympics   And the aliens are ready for the three-legged race While over on camera two, the witch/frog relay has commenced! Hydras compete in the ‘Three Heads or More’ marathon. In the shape-shifter triathlon we have running cheetahs, swimming sharks, orang-utangs on bikes, as they change fo...
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Angela Topping's Blog · 1M ago

At Smallwood school, Tooting.

Group poem from Smallwood on 22 March 2012
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Angela Topping's Blog · 1M ago

Season School, another group poem by children

A Group Poem written by Able Writers from years 3 &4 on 27th March 2012 at the host school, Pudsey Lowtown, in Leeds. Season School In spring we make cards for Mothers’ Day, plant lots of different flower seeds and hatch cute baby chicks. Painting eggs in bright colours and making scenes are fun...
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Angela Topping's Blog · 2M ago

Group Poem from Able Writers Day at Whitby Heath Primary, Ellesmere Port

A splendid environment poem from pupils who attended the Able Writers Day on 16 March 2012.
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Angela Topping's Blog · 2M ago

World Book Day 2012

I spent this year’s World Book Day at Witton Park School in Blackburn. It’s a nice change for me to go into secondary school and we were working in the rather swish CLC with some vry creative year 7 pupils. They were a little shy to begin with but soon began to realise that they [...]
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Angela Topping's Blog · 3M ago

Valentine’s Day

Today is our 35 and a half year’s wedding anniversary. I very rarely write poems about this aspect o m life, because such poems are difficult. Real love begins where romance ends No-one can can live with the chemical madness of the first flush of love. Real enduring love is in the small gifts ...
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Angela Topping's Blog · 3M ago

This poem is by…

This poem is by Komal Mahmood who spent a day with me at Read St Johns Primary. Her mother send me the poemwith a message saying ‘She thoroughly enjoyed her day and came back so happy. Komal wanted me to search for you on the internet so we could send you her poem i hope [...]
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