"It was like in-service training and entertainment rolled into one. Not only were the children fired up when we went back to the classroom but we were all able to have a go at creating our own performance poems, using your models and starting-points. I felt confident that I knew what I was doing - and could do again. Great!"
Y4 Teacher
Poetry In Performance
For Primary, Infant & Junior Schools
"Mr Mike, will you sing us another one of your poems?"
10 year-old boy
Mike's combined poetry performance models how words and actions can be expressed in performance and how we can generate ideas from our own experience.
Teacher
By participating with Mike as he performs his poems, children enjoy the bounce of the beat and the tapping of the feet as they experience and absorb the rhythms of 'ordinary language made special'.
Teacher
Where poetry, story and drama meet.
A fun introduction to the language, story and drama of Shakespeare's play:
'The Tempest'
Available as a performance pack (See 'Publications For Schools')
A Taste of Shakespeare ....
"Ey up, Mike. That were fabulous!"
Y5 Girl
mikesmith@mypostoffice.co.uk
'Rhythm & Rhyme - With Time for a Song'
For audiences of all ages
Having promoted and spent so many years working and performing my stories and poems in primary schools in the UK and around the world, I couldn't bear to delete everything from this and other Schools pages.
I've already deleted the main Gallery page - these are a few remnants, for memories!
Mike Smith
mikesmith@mypostoffice.co.uk
Pump up the language!