Posted in Performances, tagged BHASVIC, open mic, performance night on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Picture courtesy of Gratzer
Roll up, roll up! We will be holding our first Little Green Pig Performance Night on Tuesday 10th June. It looks set to be a great night, giving the children and young people from the Piglets and Saddlebacks a chance to perform the best of their writing from the last six months. The [...]
Posted in Piglets (ages 7-11), Writing examples, tagged haikus, poetry on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leo and Lillie
Sorry for the late post this week. I am up to my ears in ear poems, preparing for a poem trail at Portslade Infants School this Wednesday. If any of you live that end of town, come and take a look. There will be strings of special Sound Detective poems on display along [...]
Posted in Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Writing examples, tagged dreams, Sam on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We experimented with some visualisation work last week in the Saddlebacks group and went on dream journeys. Some visited the reality of a buried past, others created an imaginary world. It was great to see how all our imaginations took us to completely different places and made us feel different emotions. Sam, a fairly new [...]
Posted in Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Writing examples, tagged Jake, poetry on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Saddlebacks are all working away at their short stories at home so we took the opportunity at the last session to have a go at some poetry. We thought about items of clothing, belonging to ourselves or to other people, and how they convey messages about character and identity. Here’s one of the more abstract [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Frankie, haikus, Piglets (ages 7-11), Write around Air Street on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Frankie busy at work on her story
We finished off our Character, Place, Dilemma stories this week – although several of the Piglets, on re-reading their work, decided that they wanted to start all over again! Here is the beginning of Frankie’s story, who wrote about a cowgirl, a cottage in Spain and the challenge of [...]
Posted in Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Writing examples, tagged Dillan, poetry, writing from pictures on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A big welcome to Sam and Leah, who joined the Saddlebacks group last week and were thrown in at the deep end with starting their own short stories! It was great to hear you read some of your ideas out loud in the first session – thank you. We hope you enjoyed it and are [...]
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