The Queen urged children to “keep reading and writing” during a visit to a National Literacy Trust event in Bradford. During the visit, Her Majesty toured the Bradford Stories Bus, met local authors and pupils, and joined a poetry session for the ‘Share Your Story’ campaign, part of Bradford 2025, to celebrate young voices and inspire future writers. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:49It's in the third time.
00:51It's in the third time.
00:52Hello again.
00:53Hello again.
00:54I'm representing Nick Barney, who is the director of the National Poetry Centre.
00:57Hello.
00:58How are you, Nick?
00:59And you're going to be introduced to the laureates at the moment.
01:03If you take a secret, I'm going to go into the chat.
01:06So, I mean, one of the extraordinary things about West Yorkshire is
01:10that you have a centre of the culture across the nation on all sorts of things
01:13and trace this kind of big leading.
01:15I was a free school male kid, grew up on a council estate.
01:18I was like, this is an opportunity for us to help with oracy, self-confidence.
01:23Working with Simon, we funded a programme.
01:25There was all schools in West Yorkshire had a poetry module.
01:30Pittsburgh, Doncaster, Blackpool.
01:33And we'll be focusing on those areas in particular to try to make sure that's...
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01:41How many, how many workshops have you had?
01:44So, initially in the poetry week stage, we had over 30...
01:49Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm Bradford welcome to Her Majesty the Queen.
01:57I'm just going to say how much I've loved coming to Bradford today
02:03and hearing all of you do your poems and your raps and everything.
02:08It's been a real trick for me.
02:10And you must keep on doing it.
02:12It's so good for you to be able to sit down, write a poem, read a poem, just keep on reading.
02:18And it'll, it'll change your life.
02:20So you can escape to anywhere in the world.
02:22Whether you're...
02:23You could be at Bradford and you could be in South America in minutes or in Australia or the North Pole.
02:28Anywhere else.
02:29Just through reading stories and writing stories.
02:33It'll, it'll fire all your imaginations.
02:35And, but I think here with, by seeing what I've heard, you're going to make a great team.
02:44And you're all going to...
02:45Some of you will go on to be great poets and great writers and great rappers.
02:50So thank you very much.
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