Thursday
3rd July 2008 : 9.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Course
description:
Hertfordshire Schools Library Service is working in conjunction with
The Poetry Society to bring you this training session and resources
to encourage creative writing.
It begins with the premise
that teachers are creative themselves, and should be given the time
away from the classroom to cultivate their creative side.
The day is designed to 'infect' teachers with a new enthusiasm to write,
which will then be highly contagious when they return to their pupils,
so that they are able to present poetry in a more exciting and refreshing
way in the classroom.
Coral Rumble will take teachers through three sessions looking at what
a poem is, what it does, and then to explore both the forms of poetry
and free verse. Coral promises that all sessions will be "non-threatening
and kind to teachers!"
Suitable
for: KS2/3
teachers and other interested staff
Tutor:
Coral Rumble specialises in writing and performing poetry for children.
She is featured in 'Favourite Poets' published by Hodder Children's
Books as well as many other books and anthologies. Coral has worked
with all key stages in numerous schools, where she feels at home having
once been a teacher herself.
Venue:
Schools Library Service, New Barnfield, Travellers Lane, Hatfield AL10
8XG
Cost:
£131.00 per person including a buffet lunch
| Topics
to be covered will include: |
- The Heart
of the Poem - the fundamental elements that make a poem 'tick'.
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- Verse forms,
patterns and shapes, writing to entertain.
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- Writing
free verse and using your abilities to explore and imagine as
you write.
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At
the end of the session you will:
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- Have explored
your own creative side.
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- Have investigated
different forms of poetry.
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- Be fired
with enthusiasm to pass onto your colleagues and pupils.
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Copies of 'The Poetry
Book for Primary Schools' (ed. Anthony Wilson) or 'Jumpstart Poetry
in the Secondary School' (ed. Cliff Yates) will be available for purchase
on the day.
The Poetry Society's
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award anthologies, posters from Poems
on the Underground along with lesson plans and other materials to use
in the classroom will be available free on the day.
To
Book: Please
print course booking form, available here www.herts-sls.org.uk
and complete for each course booking. Return to SLS by post, Fax (01707
281611) phone (01707 281630) or email to service@herts-sls.org.uk
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