dreambeast poems
  inspirational poems, art & stories for kids by mark bird ...

Take a flight aboard The Dirigible Balloon! The Dirigible Balloon is a new webzine featuring poetry written for children by both new and...

It's wonderful to see your poems used, but when a charity is using them for a good cause, that is #proud with bells on. I love these hand...

As always, I am overjoyed to be included in another of Brian Moses' mini anthologies; this time the theme is sport and the Olympics. The...

I was very proud to have this poem, Sparks, picked up and published by Gill Education, Ireland. It was the inception of believing that my...

It was 2007. I'd left teaching after the often thankless task of being a Deputy Head in London to go and live abroad, first Buenos Aires...

As a teacher, you always wonder what became of the hundreds, if not thousands, of children you once taught. Classrooms can be strangely...

Did Brian Moses just include me in the sentence, "A fine selection of poems for early years from some of our finest children's poets." I...

Still one of my favourite videos of recent years. It's created by the fabulous, French and sometimes frivolous #PoloandPan ...and the...

So at my school, inspired by Galley Hill Primary School I decided to have our very own Heart Photography Competition: Make a heart with...

Some things are good enough to just be recreated as is. And there's not many works of art I create with the children at school, take...

So, at this time of year, my poem The Full Stop Day takes off as teachers get ready to say goodbye to their classes and children prepare...

A simple idea, elevated by getting the children to draw on the pages of an old book. What language is this? All I know, it looks...

Sometimes the world wide web can be such a playground of positivity, shining so bright, that the negativity that snaps from our screens...

After writing, "What Have the Teachers Ever Done for Us?" I thought I could use it as a model to inspire my Year 6 class to write their...

A great blog post by Hope Education about the essential Twitter accounts every teacher needs to follow ... Do you know more? Please add...

To celebrate, National Thank A Teacher Day I wrote a new poem about the power of a teacher... with a lot of inspiration from one of my...