30 Sep 2025
10:00am - 10:45am
Online
Introducing Poems for Remembrance 2025
Join us as we mark the week of National Poetry Day through our live event with poet and author Tomos Roberts, aka @probablytomfoolery. Be the first to share in an exclusive first look at his brand-new poem, written just for your pupils, reflecting on Remembrance and exploring ‘What Remembrance means to me’.
About this event
Date: Tuesday 30 September
Time: 11.00am
Duration: 45 minutes
Recommended for: pupils aged 9 to 11 years (Upper KS2 Years 5 and 6, P6 to P7).
In this thought-provoking and creative live event your class, together with pupils from across the UK, will meet poet Tomos Roberts and listen as he shares the very first reading of his new poem. Pupils will be guided to explore and reflect on different poetry techniques and the theme of Remembrance, which leads on to crafting their own Remembrance poetry. The workshop will conclude with a live Q&A session.
Download resources for the event
To help you mark National Poetry Day, the National Literacy Trust, in partnership with Royal British Legion, has created a learning sequence which supports teachers in further exploring Remembrance poetry and motivates pupils to write their own poetry inspired by Remembrance and poet Tomos Roberts.
Resources will be available to download from our Remembrance page from week commencing 1 September.
Preparation
To ensure your pupils are ready to participate in the live workshop, please make sure they have the following:
- A poetry journal (this can be a new notebook dedicated to poetry writing or a simple journal created by folding pieces of paper together).
- A pen or pencil.
Joining the event
Participation is free - please sign up on the form below to register attendance and we'll email confirmation of your booking, and will send out a link to join us on Zoom.
Please check your email - including your junk mail folder - for your confirmation email. For queries, email membership@literacytrust.org.uk
The event is a live Zoom webinar which means your class/group will not appear on screen, but will be able to interact with the event panellists by typing questions into the live chat.
Please note: Joining live by Zoom is the best way to experience the workshop, however, we'll also be live-streaming the event on YouTube if you have any technical problems accessing Zoom.
In addition, we'll be recording the session, so even if you'd like to participate, but are not certain that you can join us live, please sign up and we'll let you know how to access the recording after the workshop has taken place.