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Month: August 2009

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18Aug 2009 by joew

Michael Rosen poem celebrating the NHS joins “Poems For…” and goes Multilingual

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Photograph: Graham Turner 2008 was the 60th birthday of the NHS. As part of the celebrations, the NHS commissioned Michael Rosen, still then the official Children’s Poet Laureate, to write a poem. His “These are the Hands” is meant to be for children but is appreciated by all age-groups. With its subject a health service […]

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17Aug 2009 by joew

Two Hundred school children celebrate diversity in Medway

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In the Autumn of 2007 I was put in touch with Amy Thompson who works in Medway as local government advisor on Minority Ethnic Achievement. On seeing the bilingual poems, Amy asked me to supply one full pack for every school in her area of Medway – a total of 114 packs, each one consisting […]

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10Aug 2009 by joew

After One Year’s Work – Update on who downloads from the site

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We now know how many of you registered (over 500) , what you wanted to use the poems for (mostly for use in schools) and where you’re located (about 400 from all over the UK and about 100 from everywhere else in the world). The exercise included collating the email addresses – so that in […]

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