Get Out of The Classroom by Jonny Fluffypunk | Hot Poets Ignite

Hot Poets 🔥 Ignite 🔥 Buy Wonder Thunder Blunder - the new poetry anthology from Hot Poets 🔥🔥 Order the Michael Rosen and Hot Poet teaching resources and CPD 🔥🔥🔥 Watch more poems and find how to book a poet for your school, event or conference Visit hotpoets.org Poem: 'Get Out Of The Classroom' Hot Poet: Written & Performed by Jonny Fluffypunk Inspired by: Forest School, Birmingham Filmed by: Jon Hardy, Counterstate Films Music by Riaan Vosloo. Produced and Directed by: Chris Redmond Hot Poets bring poetry and science together to help children, young people and adults make sense of climate change — not through fear, but through curiosity, creativity and hope. Read Jonny’s poem… I’m part of this Earth and this Earth’s part of me. So for a few sun-gold hours each week I get out of the classroom and I sit by a tree. A tree. A slowly unfolding eternity, a great big canopy of green. I dig my hands deep in dirt, I snap a brittle stick in two, I dig a hole for no good reason, I breathe deep of the season, I make friends with a creature, and the tree is my teacher for the day (a treecher, you could say). I’m part of nature. And nature’s part of me. We’re one big happy family. I get out of the classroom and I sit by a tree. I don’t need to do - I can just be. It’s good for my head and good for my heart - away from lessons and screens and timetables I can start to find out what it means to be me. Free me. The real me. Whoopee!! And if I’m worried or anxious or stressed, I get out of the classroom, and I do a little test - I go and sit beneath my tree and see if it doesn’t all feel just a little bit better. And it does. Cos I’m part of this planet and this planet’s part of me. I get out of the classroom and I sit by a tree. I take care of nature, and nature takes care of me. THUNDER FACTS - FOREST SCHOOL BIRMINGHAM About Jonny Fluffypunk Stand-up poet, lo-fi theatremaker and self-made underachiever Jonny Fluffypunk has been dragging his art around the UK and occasionally beyond for over 25 years, deafly fusing bittersweet autobiography, disillusionment and wonder into an act that has established him as a firm favourite at gigs, festivals and housing benefit offices across the UK and occasionally beyond. About the Climate Collaborators This poem is made in partnership with Forest School Birmingham - Supporting a symbiotic relationship between children and nature. About Hot Poets Hot Poets 🔥 Ignite is a brand-new, creative education programme involving poetry, science, climate action and hope. 20 poets have worked with scientists, engineers, farmers, organisations and individuals doing positive work for the planet. Hot Poets is an award-winning CIC, bringing poetry and science together to tell stories that matter and inspire climate action that works. Led by artists, Liv Torc and Chris Redmond, we've worked across five continents with 100+ artists and climate partners, reaching millions. hotpoets.org Thanks to... This film was produced in partnership with National Poetry Day and a host of incredible science, cultural and education partners. Supported by Somerset Council, The Space and Arts Council England."