Queen visits Bradford to champion child literacy

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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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00:37Here we had it converted into this lovely space you see today.

00:40We had this beautiful recycled wood put in.

00:45Still on the white flag.

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...

01:36Sorry.

01:37It seems like...

01:39It's a fantastic tree.

01:40It's a fantastic tree.

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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