Virtual Year 6 Transitions workshop: Moving Up

The Virtual School would like to invite your Year 6 classes to join Christian Foley, author of Moving Up, to a virtual workshop. Christian will perform the poems and raps from the book 'Moving Up' which are themed on the transition from Primary to Secondary school. The titles of such poems include: "The benches / I heard this rumour yeah / shout out to year sixes / shout out to year sevens / what I'm made of & many more. Christian's poems can then be used as a springboard for children to discuss how they are feeling about moving to a new school or adapting to the school they have just moved to.  

Virtual workshop details

• Friday 6 June, 2025 
• 9.15am - 10.15am 
• Available to all Year 6 classes 

There's no need for year sixes and sevens to be at sixes at sevens! This is a musical myth busting session, involving interactive raps and language games that get the students talking, writing and performing their own work, articulating how 'moving up' feels in their own words.  

If you would like to register your school for this event or for further details, please email: virtual.schools@norfolk.gov.uk 

There is no charge for this event.

Christian Foley  

Christian Foley makes it up as he goes along. His freestyles have taken him from the school classroom to Oprah's Television Networks and PMQ's at Westminster, from the festival circuit to TED talks and the Premier League. 

Christian's improvised performances lauded by stars like 50 Cent and creator of Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda, have gone viral multiple times and made him a regular on British Television and radio, amassing tens of millions of views, and features across British and international Press. 

On the poetry scene, Christian has risen to prominence. His night Spoken Word Sundaes is known as a hotbed of emerging, underground talent and he has also previously been shortlisted for the Jerwood Poetry Prize and Sky Arts as being in the 'top 20' promising young artists in the UK. 

For a day job, Christian is one of the only few poets in the world selected to complete a 'Spoken Word Education Programme' and Teaching MA at Goldsmiths University, an incentive which was created to transform professional poets into specialised facilitators. He works in a number of schools and referral units in East London, as a Poet in Residence, and is the editor of fourteen poetry anthologies written with children between the ages of four and eighteen. Christian is currently undertaking a PhD at Goldsmiths University in Hip Hop and Spoken Word Education.