COMPLETE POETRY TEACHING TOOLKIT FOR EYFS AND YEAR 1:
Celebrate the seasons through engaging poetry designed for young learners
Poetry Basket 1: Seasons offers a delightful way to integrate seasonal themes into your teaching each week, using 40 lesser-known children’s rhymes from anonymous authors. This online collection makes poetry an exciting part of the educational experience for children aged 2 to 7, enhancing their understanding of the world around them through rhythmic and thematic explorations.
Explore Programme Details
Enjoy 40 engaging video tutorials
Each poem has an accompanying video to display on your interactive whiteboards or you can learn it yourself to teach to your children. The poem is repeated 3 times for maximum retention!
Four downloadable poetry booklets
You’ll receive four downloadable poetry booklets, one for each season, making it easy to integrate poetry into your daily curriculum and share with parents and caregivers.
The Poetry Basket community
Get exclusive access to The Poetry Basket community, where you can participate in our Over to You programme, and even enter our annual poetry competition.
Move through the seasons
Engage children with poems that correlate with the seasons—enjoy verses about building snowmen in winter, jumping in puddles during spring, making pancakes, and watching thunderstorms, to enrich their seasonal experiences.
Explore the poems in Welsh
The poems are also available with Welsh audio and downloadable words – perfect for including the language in your teaching.
Croeso i’r fasged gerddi. Mae fersiwn sain ar gael o dan y fideo. Mae copi o’r geiriau ar gael I lawrlwytho yn y ddwy iaith.
Watch The Poetry Basket in Action
Tailored Learning Experiences:
- Develop Core Language Skills: Poems are carefully crafted to improve speech, language development, and vocabulary through rhythm and rhyme, supporting phonetic understanding and memory.
- Foster Inclusivity: With materials that cater to SEND and EAL students, every child finds their voice in the poetry circle, enhancing both confidence and class cohesion.
- Creative Expression: Children are encouraged to express themselves and interpret poems creatively, bolstering their confidence and engagement through performance.
Transform Your Teaching Approach:
Poetry Basket 1: Seasons is more than just a teaching tool—it’s a way to bring the vibrant changes of the year into your classroom, helping young learners connect their experiences with educational content. It’s an opportunity to bring the rhythm and joy of poetry into the daily learning process.
Pricing:
Unlock the full potential of your class with The Poetry Basket 1 for just £60 per school per year.
Paying for the Poetry Basket:
There are two ways you can pay for the poetry basket. The preferred way is to pay online. This will give you instant access to the programme. Alternatively, you can request to pay by invoice. This will take 48 hours to set up.
Programme Includes
- 8 Lessons
- 42 Topics
Ratings and Reviews
Chris Rayner
I love it! The kids love it ! The parents love it !
Debbie Lindley
The children love these poems, its so fantastic to see them recite them independently.
Clair Goodwin
These poems are so catchy and easy to use, my children amaze me at how quickly they pick up the words. I can hear them reciting them to their parents and to each other during provision. They love the actions and look forward to a new poem each week.
Clare Carpenter
The children respond really positively to the poems and actions A great addition to the curriculum
Jennie Haughton
Great poems, easy to learn. Children love them.
Michael Doughty
My children are so passionate about it and some of their younger siblings have also recited the poems to me that their brothers and sisters have taught them.
Katie Keier
My kindergarteners LOVE the poems. Thank you for the easy to access resource to joyful poetry that can be acted out and loved by children.
Patrington Primary
everything
Nicolette Pattenden
i loved learning all the new poems and cant wait to teacher then to the staff and children
The Poetry Basket has become a regular part of our provision in Reception. The children love it.