Poems From Hartshorne Primary School

As part of Swadlincote Festival of Words 2025, I spent a day at Hartshorne CofE Primary School, sharing poems and helping the children to use their brilliant imaginations. In Pine and Oak Classes, we wrote poems together as a group, with the help of wordy games and a bag of magic beans!

In a Book I can... by Pine Class

In a book I can

Cross a river of lava using paper

Ride a tall, rainbow dog to school

Create a meow-meow Skibidi

Zoom on a T-Rex to Mars

In a book I can

Fly on a giant rabbit to Jupiter

Fall down a sinkhole and land in China

Go back in time and paint the Mona Lisa

Trip over my own head

In a book I can

Call Bobby McBobster The Third to give me KFC

Time travel with Big Bird

Wrap a dragon in toilet paper then ride him into ancient times

Run round Saturn's rings to be part of The Big Bang

Distract a dragon with chocolates and teach it how to skip!

In a book I can do ANYTHING!

Beans by Oak Class

Luke's magic beans grew an everlasting lolly with Infinity sprinkles

Tom's magic beans grew the world's biggest magic dogs

Issy's magic beans grew minions which give you unlimited wishes

Lila's magic beans grew colour-changing emotion ice-cream

Rav's magic beans grew terrifying farty socks

Joey's magic beans grew making-things-become-real pencils

Elle's magic beans grew a super-fast hover-Lamborghini

Matt's magic beans grew little-sister-eating monsters

Dolly's magic beans grew multi-coloured hypnotising gems

Jude's magic beans grew hearts exploding with love

Flo's magic beans grew enchanted refilling treasure chests

Elaina's magic beans grew x-ray vision glasses

What will my beans grow?

Well done, everyone!

Why not have a go at writing a magic bean poem about your family, friends, or classmates? Or perhaps a book poem about all the things you have read about in the books you love? Have fun!