Forthcoming Poetryclass Days

We have two Poetryclass days coming up, both in July and both designed to celebrate the National Year of Reading, for which July has been set as 'Rhythm and Rhyme' month.

Please click on the links below to find out more.

Poetryclass Days

3 JULY 2008 - Hertfordshire Schools Library Service
Teachers as Writers with poet Coral Rumble

17 JULY 2008 - Birmingham Central Library
Reading Poetry with poet and English PGCE course leader Sue Dymoke

 


THIS COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED

 READING POETRY

a day of poetry pleasure for teachers


Poetryclass INSET day with poet Sue Dymoke
Key Stages 2, 3 & 4

Thursday 17 July 2008
10am - 3:30pm

Shakespeare Memorial Room
Birmingham Central Library
Chamberlain Square
BIRMINGHAM B3 3HQ

To tie in with the National Year of Reading and July’s theme of “Rhythm and Rhyme” month, we have set up a Poetryclass day dedicated to Teachers as Readers.

Teachers will be encouraged to imagine, explore and entertain as they read and write. Each session will be flexibly structured and filled with creative activities to ensure that teachers have fun with poetry and take away ideas to inspire their own reading and teaching of the genre further.

Sue Dymoke will take teachers through three sessions looking at teachers as readers, capturing responses to poetry through drama, visual images and written speech, and looking at what exactly makes a poem.

Thanks to generous funding from The Ratcliff Foundation, we can offer this day to teachers at a very special reduced rate.

The full price per teacher is £30
(including lunch and refreshments)

In addition to the workshops with Sue Dymoke, the price includes:

  • A resource pack including information, lesson plans and materials to use in the classroom.
  • A copy of ‘The Poetry Book for Primary Schools’ (ed. Anthony Wilson) or ‘Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School’ (ed. Cliff Yates)
  • The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award anthologies, posters from Poems on the Underground along with other materials.
  • A toolkit of tried-and-tested techniques designed to get students thinking, reading, writing, redrafting and editing. 
  • Ideas for differentiation and progression.
  • Opportunities to raise questions and concerns.
  • Full buffet lunch and tea/coffee throughout the day.

All teachers are welcome, and all sessions will be non-threatening and kind to teachers!

- ALL PLACES HAVE BEEN BOOKED -

If you have any further queries about Poetryclass, please contact Angel Dahouk on 020 7420 9889
or email adahouk@poetrysociety.org.uk

 

About Sue Dymoke

Sue Dymoke is a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester where she leads the PGCE English course. Before moving into Teacher Education she worked as an English teacher in 11 - 18 schools for sixteen years.

Sue specialises in researching and writing about the teaching of poetry and leading workshops with primary and secondary teachers on varied topics including: ways into writing poetry; poetry and science; planning the poetry curriculum from KS1 to Post-16 level.

Sue is a member of the education working group of the national Poetry Archive and a regular speaker at teacher conferences. Her publications include: Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers (Paul Chapman Publishing, 2003), The New Girls: new and selected poems (Shoestring Press, 2004) and Not Just a Game: Sporting Poetry (Five Leaves, 2006, an anthology co-edited with Andy Croft). She has also written many articles for Secondary English Magazine on teaching poetry.

‘Very inspirational…. Super training…. Just try and stop those poems being written!’ (Primary Science co-ordinators who took part in a ‘Poetry and Magnetism’ workshop in 2007).