CLPE and MCB team up for The Big Amazing Poetry Project

Research was carried out this January among UK-based primary school teachers to find out more about their experience of teaching poetry. This included their attitudes towards it, how much they know about poets and anthologies, and how it is incorporated into a teaching day.

The research revealed:

80% of teachers feel poetry is a significant part of a literacy curriculum
88% say that children enjoy engaging with poetry
89% reported that children enjoyed listening to it being read or performed
72% reported that they enjoyed performing it themselves
61% of teachers have never had development training on poetry
79% of classroom book corners have fewer than ten poetry books in their book selection