Bring Michael Rosen into your classroom with Hot Poets Ignite

Ready to take your National Poetry Day journey further?

Hot Poets Ignite is a new digital teaching pack for KS2 and KS3 that brings climate poetry, creative learning and climate science together — with Michael Rosen joining you on screen in the classroom.

Created with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Climate Research and UCL’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, Ignite uses poetry and a pedagogy of hope to help young people feel less scared, more informed and more powerful about the world they will inherit.

Across four class-facing films, Michael Rosen and the Hot Poets introduce poems, extraordinary real-world climate stories and creative writing challenges. There’s also a CPD film for teachers, exploring practical and hopeful ways to bring climate conversations into the classroom.

And all the planning is done for you.

Each film is supported by ready-to-use PowerPoints and PDF lessons, printable poems, interviews with leading scientists and climate fact sheets — all available to watch and download from your school’s own resource page.

Want to try it first?

Take your class on a FREE Space Junk lesson with Michael Rosen and Hot Poet Chris Redmond. Discover the tens of thousands of pieces of junk circling our planet, meet the real-life mission designed to clean some of it up — and then get creative.

You can also take a quick video tour of Ignite and see exactly what your school gets.

Hot Poets Ignite costs £150 for a whole-school licence.

Try the free lesson. Take the tour. And if you want to keep going, come and Ignite your classroom with us.