The Sound Collector Visits St. Andrew’s!

As part of our exciting poetry unit based on The Sound Collector by Roger McGough, the children in our mixed EYFS and Year 1 class became real-life sound detectives!

We took a walk around St. Andrew’s School—both inside and out—to tune into the sounds all around us. The children listened carefully and recorded everything they could hear: the tapping of the keyboard in the school office, the chattering of children in the school hall, the rustling of paper in Class One, the whirring of a helicopter overhead, and the vroom of cars passing on the road outside.

With their lists of sounds and their matching objects in hand, the children returned to class full of ideas and inspiration. Instead of the Sound Collector visiting a house like in the original poem, our poems imagine what would happen if he visited St. Andrew’s School and took all of our special sounds away!

The children worked brilliantly to gather rich, descriptive vocabulary and are looking forward to using their sound collections to write their own imaginative versions of the poem. We can’t wait to share them with you soon!