KEY INFORMATION

Recommended age group: Primary and Secondary
Time required: 60 minutes

ACTIVITY IDEA

Challenge outcomes

• Describe how a shape poem is written.
• Choose someone or some aspect of the Games as the poem’s focus. 

Teacher notes

Introduce pupils/students to the shape poem. This challenge invites pupils to write a shape poem about their pride in someone they know: friends, family or a chosen Olympic or Paralympic athlete. Use the presentation to introduce shape poetry to pupils/students and then hand out the template for pupils/students to begin writing their own poem. 

Support: Pupils/students support each other by creating word banks, focusing on vocabulary that expresses your pride in something related to the Games.

Challenge: Once completed, pupils/students explore alternative words with the same meanings to swap into their poem to make it more interesting!

Take it further 

• Remember you can showcase pupils’ work with us on Twitter @GetSetCommunity and Instagram @GetSetClub.
• Encourage pupils to use whatever they have created at home during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, using all of the Share Your Pride resources.