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I'm coming to the end of my first term as Writer in Residence at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath. As you know, I've been using this blog as a place to document my work there. Previous posts include Beginning to Write Poetry With Secondary School Students, Reading and Writing Poems about Where I'm From, National Poetry… Continue reading Thinking about sound and other senses. #writerinschool
As I've mentioned before, I'm using this blog as a place to keep a record of my residency at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath, a non-selective comprehensive school for young people aged 11 - 18. I go into school one day a week, run a creative club (open to any student) during break and at… Continue reading Reading and writing poems about ‘Where I’m From’. #writerinschool
Popping in briefly to say I've had a happy but busy poetry week. I was in St Gregory's all day Wednesday and most of Thursday (National Poetry Day) and I stayed for their Open Evening on Thursday so wasn't home until nearly 10pm. I think that my school residency is going well, so far! I'm… Continue reading National Poetry Day at St Gregory’s #writerinschool
I enjoy browsing through poetry books on the look out for poems that I think will work well in a workshop. As I mentioned before, the theme for National Poetry Day this year is 'Freedom' so I've been looking for suitable poems to take into St Gregory's Catholic College where I'm working as Writer in… Continue reading Poetry Workshop Ideas: The Long Holidays by Esther Morgan #writerinschool
I'm using this blog as a notebook to record my time working with students at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath, as Writer in Residence. I'll use the tag 'writer in school' so you should be able to find my posts here by using that search term. It's still early days in my residency, I'm now… Continue reading Beginning to write poetry with secondary school students #writerinschool
I'm going to be using this blog as a kind of diary and a place to keep notes about my work as a Writer in Residence at St Gregory's Catholic College in Bath. I won't use students' real names or photographs and I won't do or say anything which would put any young person at… Continue reading My first weeks as a Writer in Residence in a school #writerinschool
As I'm Writer in Residence at St Gregory's Catholic College this year, I'm keeping this page updated with a list of competitions and organisations which might be of interest to writers of school age - 5 to 18. Please add further suggestions in the comments section. Writing competitions now open: The Betjeman Poetry Prize… Continue reading Opportunities for Young Writers
All of my family, husband, daughter, son, son's girlfriend, and me, are off to Greenbelt this weekend for the first time, and we're all taking wellies and waterproofs and layers and a torch, as we've been advised by more experienced festival-goers than us. I'm looking forward to reading with Nancy Campbell, Sasha Dugdale and… Continue reading In which I’m packing for Greenbelt
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