Details
Age group: Year 5-6
Available: Monday – Friday
Length: 120 minutes. Please allow more time after your workshop to explore the galleries and public spaces
Group size: minimum 10
Key Skills
Creative writing, creative thinking skills.
Workshop outline
Experiment with words and writing in this inspiring workshop for Primary students. The workshop aims to increase confidence in using language playfully and creatively.
Workshop leaders begin by asking the question ‘what is creative writing?’ and introduce participants to some of the different forms creative writing can take, such as poems, novels, short stories and plays. Participants will learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and use an activity sheet to collect words inspired by the fascinating printed books, letters, diaries and manuscripts on display in the Treasures gallery. Students will then use an experimental technique, often employed by writers, to generate an imaginative piece of writing. Using a range of art materials, participants will turn their written ideas into hand printed text. Following this, each of the students’ work will be joined together to create a collaborative story.
Pre visit activities
- Introduce the class to nonsense poetry and ask students to read some examples aloud in class
- Cut out different words from newspapers or magazines and splice them together to create poems. Repeat the exercise using magnetic poetry
- Reinforce the meaning of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs
Post-visit activities
- Make a cover for the book created during the workshop
- Illustrate the story created during the session by using drawing, painting, printing or collage
- Change the order of the activity sheets to create new storylines
- Develop the story into a performance
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