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“The best INSET I’ve ever been to!”
KS2 Literacy Co-ordinator
Primary school, Oxfordshire
James is an INSET provider, a lecturer in Children’s Literature/Creative Writing at Reading University and the author of five creative writing books for Primary teachers. He is currently working on a new teachers’ book Wild About Words: really creative writing in the classroom (Sage Publications 2008).
James has run INSET sessions for Primary teachers all over the UK. These fun, interactive and wholly practical sessions are based on James’ popular and critically-acclaimed teachers’ books Creating Writers (Routledge), Just Imagine and Page to Stage (David Fulton).
Story writing at KS1&2 also available.
Aims of INSET sessions:
- To give teachers a range of imaginative workshop ideas for writing poetry that can be put into immediate practice in the classroom
- Boost teachers’ confidences with motivating children to engage with poetry
- Give teachers experience of writing poems themselves
- Enable teachers to view themselves as co-authors of poems with their classes - as well as initiators, editors and publishers of children’s poetry
- Give teachers approaches to poetry writing that can further be applied to fiction
- Ultimately, for teachers to recognise that poetry is often the most effective medium (particularly free verse) for children to express their thoughts, feelings, experiences and memories
- Demonstrate ways of making poetry an integral part of a classroom culture
“A wonderful afternoon and fantastic ideas for poetry writing. James helped us develop our skills of rapping and to tap into personal depths of imagination and metaphor, leaving us with real enthusiasm to go back into school with a fresh approach.”
Literacy Consultant
Herefordshire LEA
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> Start Time
If local to James (ie South Oxfordshire or Berkshire) James will drive to your school and arrive by 8.30am. If further afield, James will catch the train - however far! - trains are great for writing. James can reach most stations in the South of England by 8.30am.
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> Costs
Negotiable and extremely reasonable, of course!
For costs and availability please send James an email.
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