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The official YouTube channel of Jack Flash Jack Flash, known offstage as Rob Bradley, is a versatile artist based in West Yorkshire. With a sound grounded in hip-hop, he’s evolved his craft by seamlessly blending rap with raw, stripped-back acoustic elements, showcasing his prowess as a rapper, poet, and songwriter. His foundation in the hip-hop world saw him triumph in world championship rap competitions and rap battles, earning him recognition as an esteemed lyricist. Now, Jack Flash is celebrated for his insightful storytelling, astute social observations, and the distinct razor-sharp wit characteristic of his Northern British roots. Subscribe to this channel for..... live performances, freestyle raps and new songs

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Your Facilitator | The Rap School | Rob Bradley | Rap and Spoken Word Workshops

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Educational rap workshops for young people. Unlocking creativity and building confidence one rhyme at a time.

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Mindfulness colouring sheets for children who would benefit from colouring whilst watching/listening to talks

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This is a space to add questions for Coral ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Coral's books (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Gill Smith ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Gill's books (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Levi ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Levi's work (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Levi ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Levi's work (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Rob ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Rob's work(either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Nadine ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Nadine's books (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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This is a space to add questions for Kathryn ahead of the session or to leave examples of work that you've completed based on Kathryn's books (either before or after the session). You can also use this to comment on the session if you cannot use the comment system on the website.

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Resources for the book 'Tomorrow' from the Scottish BookTrust

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Resources for the book 'Tomorrow' from the Scottish BookTrust

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Ideas for using Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan

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Ideas for using Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan

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lovemybooks | FREE reading resources for parents

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lovemybooks | FREE reading resources for parents

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lovemybooks is a FREE resource to help parents and young children enjoy sharing books together. Includes carefully chosen books, resources and activities.

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Stories, Books & Characters - Poetry Slam Couplet Ladder Resource

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Empathy Lab is a wonderful organisation which promotes the use of literature to help children build empathy and understanding.

Check out the:

Empathy Lab book collections

Empathy Lab festival (June)

Authors & Illustrators | Empathy Lab

Don't Hate, Educate Resource Hub

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The events of this year's Liverpool Children's Festival of Reading have been supported by the Our Liverpool fund.

For more information on the work of the Our Liverpool team, please visit Our Liverpool refugee and migrant service - Liverpool City Council

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Our Liverpool refugee and migrant service - Liverpool City Council

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Our Liverpool is committed to supporting refugees and migrants. Find out how the team can help and what other local support services are available.

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About this year's theme of empathy, understanding and sanctuary/refuge

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About this year's theme of empathy, understanding and sanctuary/refuge

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Books and literature are a fantastic way to learn about the lives of others. Research has shown that reading helps young people to build their sense of empathy.

This year's LCFR will be exploring themes of empathy, kindness, understanding and also exploring ideas about seeking refuge and sanctuary.

These links and resources will help you to explore these themes with your class.

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One of LLP's key priorities is finding ways to support schools to encourage children to read for pleasure. The Liverpool Children's Festival of Reading is an event that we organise to try and introduce children and young people to a diverse range of authors, poets and illustrators.

We have provided a range of resources that can be used to reflect on the sessions or to reflect on pupil's own reading.

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A worksheet that can be used for planning or writing out a recount of the author event.

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Emotion cards that can be used in discussion of texts to identify how characters are feeling. They could also be used to support writing work.

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Graph paper to plot character's emotions across a story. Notice which points coincide with moments of connection with others. How does this impact on the mood or emotions of the character?

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If you have any queries, please contact admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com

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The member of staff who booked the sessions will receive a link via Eventbrite. If you don't have this link, please email jenny@liverpoollearningpartnership.com with details of the school you are from and the session you want to access.

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About the Liverpool Children's Festival of Reading

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About the Liverpool Children's Festival of Reading

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The Liverpool Children's Festival of Reading is a series of author events intended to support your school in providing access to authors, illustrators and poets. The 2025 events will take place online via livestreaming on week beginning 10th February. Sessions will be streamed to the LLP website and schools will be sent the link to the events. There will also be the facility to watch via YouTube (email admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com for this link) and the YT version will include subtitling.

If you have any other access needs, please email admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com

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https://www.coralrumble.co.uk/poems

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Things That Should Be In A Poem- Coral Rumble

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Things That Should Be In A Poem- Coral Rumble

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https://www.coralrumble.co.uk/

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https://www.coralrumble.co.uk/

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Make a Toilet Roll Character with Nadine Kaadan

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The Jasmine Sneeze by Nadine Kaadan | A Read Aloud Book for Kids

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https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/liverpool_after.pdf

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Information about the mural of Levi Tafari

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Information about the mural of Levi Tafari

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Levi Tafari unveils new mural at Baltic Creative -

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In July, we were approached requesting wall space for a new mural celebrating the Liverpool poet, Levi Tafari. Last week the poet unveiled this new street art, organised in collaboration with The Windows Project. Background Levi Tafari is a celebrated poet, born and raised in Liverpool by Jamaican parents. Levi performs his ‘dub poetry’, which […]

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https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/liverpool_poems.pdf

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Sefton’s Wonderous Waterways- Levi Tafari

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Sefton’s Wonderous Waterways- Levi Tafari

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Sefton’s Wonderous Waterways – The Poetry Society: Poems

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Every year the Oxford University Press asks children to vote for a word that has been particularly pertinent. In 2024, the chosen word was 'kindness.' This article explains about 'word of the year' and the chosen word.

You could:

ask children why they feel 'kindness' was chosen

have your own 'word of the year' vote

write your own 'kindness is...' poems

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Kindness is Children’s 2024 Word of the Year, says OUP

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The Oxford University Press says the chosen word of kindness suggests an awareness of mental health challenges others may be facing.

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https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/oxed/children/CWOTY24/OxfordChildrens-Word-Year-Report-2024.pdf

This is a useful report for teachers to read but also includes some interesting quotes from children about 'kindness' that could be shared with the class.

You could:

talk about why 'kindness' might have been chosen as more pertinent than the runners up: artificial intelligence and conflict

talk about how kindness features in the books featured in the LCFR- do the books help us understand what it means to be kind? how do characters show kindness?

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'With illustrations that find sweetness in sadness, this touching picture book is the resonant story of refugee siblings who have lost everything but each other'. - The Sunday Times

'Gill Smith's illustrations for Saving the Butterfly (Walker) by Helen Cooper also lean towards muted grey shades as we see a boy and his older sister, two refugees, rescued from a boat. The boy settles, makes friends, but the girl is haunted by the past and can't move on until the day her brother brings her a butterfly. As the insect and the girl begin to flourish, the illustrations become as rich and colourful as the butterfly's wings. A tender tale focusing on the aftermath of conflict, it's a great companion to Nicola Davies's The Day War Came (2019).' - Observer

'A triumph of storytelling in words and art.' 'Children's Books About Immigration'. - The New York Times

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'With illustrations that find sweetness in sadness, this touching picture book is the resonant story of refugee siblings who have lost everything but each other'. - The Sunday Times 'Gill Smith's illustrations for Saving the Butterfly (Walker) by Helen Cooper also lean towards muted grey shades as we see a boy and his older sister, two refugees, rescued from a boat.

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Kurly is a published spoken word poet and Hip Hop artists who writes and performs on various topics. He also delivers poetry workshops in schools and community settings to help boost literacy engagement and pupil progress whilst helping others explore these art forms of self expression.

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Finding Rhythms - We use music as a catalyst to empower people to improve their lives.

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Rob Bradley is a rapper, music producer and spoken word poet. He has performed around the world, from clubs in the US to festivals throughout Europe, collaborating with artists along the way. He has poetry books, multiple TED talks and a freestyle rap world championship to his name. He has released a number of independent

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Hi my name is Kurly, I’m a published poet, Citizenship and English instructor, a shortlisted Birmingham Laureate and a rapper. I visit schools all around the United Kingdom and love helping pupils have fun writing poems on curricular, social, moral, personal or just about any theme for that matter. Increasing pupil’s literacy engagement by taking short encouraging achievable steps to aid wider curricular involvement to help the child progress and succeed is my mission in a nutshell!

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A City Fit To Live In: A Poem by Levi Tafari

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Author of books for children of all ages, including Here Comes The Crocodile and Ruby’s School Walk.

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Levi Tafari is a crucial, rhythmic, poetic, consciousness raiser and urban griot. Levi was born and raised in the city of Liverpool by his Jamaican parents. This gave Levi access to two cultures. In his teenage years, he became known for being a sharp, lyrical observer as he regularly verbalised on the many sound systems in and around his hometown.

Later this was to have a strong influence in shaping his art form. Levi attended catering college where he studied Classical French cuisine. Levi graduated with a distinction and entered into the world of catering as a profession.

Meanwhile he had started attending the Liverpool 8 Writers Workshop in order to quench his artistic urge and to get the intellectual stimulation that he needed, he was desperately seeking a new medium of expression. The time was right, it was the early 80's and there was a performance poetry explosion happening in Britain. He left the trade he loved for the art he loved even more.

Levi had began to make fresh waves on the performance scene, he was then and still is a firm member of the Rastafarian movement and although his early performances were in that community, he saw it as his duty to reach a wider audience. After all, rumours were flying around about how hard life was in Liverpool 8 and people who were involved in the Rastafarian movement were receiving a lot of negative press, so someone had to tell it as it was. With the support of his community he started to take his poetry further afield, his writing began to take on universal themes which meant that he was not only getting his message through to a wider British audience but his performances overseas increased.

Levi's work is deeply rooted in the oral tradition. He passionately believes that poetry should not just stay on the page and that the tongue was the very first instrument.

Levi sees himself as an Urban Griot, the griot being the traditional consciousness raiser, storyteller, newscaster and political agitator. His words move to a strong reggae beat, but it's also very humorous. His work is rhythmic and lyrical and in the past he has teamed up with reggae, soul and funk fusion bands, most notably "The Ministry of Love." He has also spent two seasons as poet in residence with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Levi has four collections of his poetry published and his work has been included in many anthologies. He was the first person to use the term "DUBOETRY" which was the title of his first book. Several of his musical tracks can be found on compilation albums and he has recorded poetry, which has been released on audiocassette.

Levi has made several guest television appearances and in 1992 he played himself in "Grange Hill"- BBC1 when he was also commissioned to write and perform a piece especially for the programme. In 1997 a documentary was made by the BBC's "Everyman" programme, "The Road to Zion" which followed Levi on his first trip to Ethiopia, and to the place which is seen as a holy land by members of the Rastafarian movement. More recently Levi has featured in many schools programmes on Channel 4 Schools displaying his writing skills to a younger audience.

An important element of Levi's work is visiting schools, colleges, universities and prisons running creative writing workshops, in the hope of inspiring the new generation of performance poets. Through "The Windows Project" Levi has been able to carry this out successfully.

He has also written a number of plays which have been performed at Liverpool's Unity, Everyman and Playhouse Theatres as well as at the Blackheath Theatre in Stafford. Aside from this, Tafari also works in education: running creative writing workshops in prisons, schools and universities.

While usually pegged as an ambassador of Black British culture, Tafari has toured his work extensively both in the UK and abroad - tapping into the common cultural links that extend across the Black Atlantic, from the African coast, to the Caribbean, as well as to the Americas. This has been a part of his acknowledging his mixed heritage and upbringing, an experience which he defined in the following:

Levi Tafari's musical projects include work with Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble Delado, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and with his own reggae fusion band Ministry of Love. He has also played with Urban Strawberry Lunch and Griot Workshop and has recently worked with jazz musician Dennis Rollins.

Most recently Levi has applied his work to working with the British Council, undertaking tours to The Czech Republic, Jordan, Portugal, Germany and Singapore.

In 2001 Levi toured with scrap recycle band, "Urban Strawberry Lunch" taking in Europe and the length and breadth of the UK on their Sonic Tour. A trip to South East Asia was also highly successful.

He was Writer in Residence at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and has toured various countries, including the Czech Republic, China and Hong Kong. He has also appeared in many television programmes including Blue Peter and Grange Hill, and made a well-received film about Rastafarianism for BBC television's Everyman programme entitled "The Road to Zion."

Levi has collaborated extensively with the British Council in many parts of Europe and the Far East in flagship education and arts projects such as Britlit and Inclusion and Diversity in Education (INDIE). Levi has worked with 50 European schools in INDIE both delivering creative writing and communication workshops to young people and sharing his unique and vibrant poetry with whole school communities.

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Levi Tafari is a crucial, rhythmic, poetic, consciousness raiser and urban griot. Levi was born and raised in the city of Liverpool by his Jamaican parents. This gave Levi access to two cultures. In his teenage years, he became known for being a sharp, lyrical observer as he regularly verbalised on the many sound systems in and around his hometown.

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Read Aloud Storytime- Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan

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Read Aloud Storytime- Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan

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Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan | A Read Aloud Book for Kids

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To read my full bio click here, and to read my CV, please visit my LinkedIn.

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About the MH and Wellbeing ideas and resources

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About the MH and Wellbeing ideas and resources

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Liverpool Learning Partnership is a key partner in the citywide work on mental health and wellbeing in schools. We are coordinating a series of events for Children's Mental Health Week (wb 3 Feb, the week before the LCFR) based on the theme of 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.'

For schools who are taking part in Children's Mental Health Week and want to continue the focus on emotional understanding the week after, we are providing ideas for exploring books (especially those featured in our events) through the lens of emotions.

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This resource could be used for tracking what you've read (page 1) or recording books that you would like to read (page 2).

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This emotions wheel could be used to support writing or to help students identify emotions experienced by characters in texts. You could use this in conjunction with the emotion graphing activity.