Posted in Piglets (ages 7-11), Writing examples, tagged Frankie, postcard on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Frankie chose this atmospheric postcard in last week’s workshop. It is called ‘Resting’ by Vilhelm Hammershoi. Here’s what Frankie wrote, inspired by the image:
I’m sitting in this chair
a very lonely chair
I don’t know what to write
I really, actually don’t.
I’m listening for a pin
a very quiet pin
but I’m really, really bored.
I don’t know what to write.
Well [...]
Posted in Piglets (ages 7-11), Uncategorized on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
DSC00339, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Last week with the Piglets we used postcards as a starting point for writing. First of all we looked at all the different images, wrote down whatever words came into our heads, and stuck these on post-its. Then each Piglet chose a postcard which inspired them and wrote a piece in [...]
Posted in Everything else, tagged funding, grassroots grants on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bad news (it’s always best to get this out the way first): the Little Green Pig website is still down. Our website master Martin and I are doing our best to learn technobabble and sort it out.
Good news: we’ve just heard that we’re going to receive some funding through Grassroots Grants, which will pay for [...]
Posted in Piglets (ages 7-11), Writing examples, tagged Leo, Lillie, new year's resolutions, Piglets, Ruben on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Skylight Giraffe, originally uploaded by MerlinJnr.
The Piglets also had fun last week coming up with some New Year’s resolutions – not for ourselves, of course, but for our pets and other animals.
Here’s Lillie’s resolutions for a giraffe:
I promise to grow as tall as the trees
I promise to eat loads more green leaves
I won’t ever stumble [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DSC01257, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Welcome back to 2009! We had a great first session with both Piglets and Saddlebacks on Tuesday. We warmed up our writing with silent writing introductions as you can see in the picture, and then had a go at writing some New Years Resolutions with a twist!
Below Leah writes resolutions [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… we are doing complicated changeover things with the Little Green Pig website at the moment so it will be down for the next couple of days. We hope to have it back up and running as soon as possible. In the meantime, take a look through the blog, and leave a comment if you’d [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
KLCC 7:36am, originally uploaded by DanielKHC.
Taking our lead from the Saddlebacks’ letters from the future, the Piglets wrote some of their own before Christmas. Like the Saddlebacks, we imagined we’d travelled to the year 2108 and wrote letters about what the world was like. This was one of those ideas that really got the creative [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
anthlogies on table, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
It’s nearly a year to the day that we held our first Little Green Pig workshops at Brighton Youth Centre. It’s been a great year for us, and we’re happy and proud of all we have achieved in just twelve months, with your help and support. 2008 has seen [...]
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