INSET

G R O W I N G   P O E M S – putting the wow back into words

Poetry Writing at KS1 & 2

These fun, interactive and wholly practical sessions are based on James’ popular and critically-acclaimed teachers’ books Creating Writers , Just Imagine and Page to Stage (all Routledge).

Aims of INSET sessions:

• To give teachers a range of imaginative workshop ideas for writing poetry that can be put into immediate practice in the classroom

• Boost teachers’ confidences with motivating children to engage with poetry

• Give teachers many structures / templates /approaches for poetry

• Give teachers experience of writing poems themselves

• Use music / images to stimulate ideas

• Enable teachers to view themselves as co-authors of poems with their classes - as well as initiators, editors and publishers of children’s poetry

• Give teachers approaches to poetry writing that can further be applied to fiction

• Ultimately, for teachers to recognise that poetry is often the most effective medium (particularly free verse) for children to express their thoughts, feelings, experiences and memories

• Demonstrate ways of making poetry an integral part of a classroom culture

Story writing at KS1&2 also available.

‘The best INSET I’ve ever been too!’

KS2 Literacy Co-ordinator, Oxfordshire

“A wonderful afternoon and fantastic ideas for poetry writing. James helped us develop our skills of rapping and to tap into personal depths of imagination and metaphor, leaving us with real enthusiasm to go back into school with a fresh approach.”

Literacy Consultant, Herefordshire LEA

“The way you told the stories took me to another world.”

“Storytellers normally drone on and bore the audience to death but you were so funny”
Joe & Beth, (Garden Fields Junior School, Herts)

“Excellent... the children were enthralled.”
Birchington Primary School

“We would not hesitate to use his considerable talent again”
Cowley Infant School

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