"taking
the fear out
of teaching poetry"
Is
poetry an important feature of life in your school?
Does it support and enrich the creative curriculum?
Do pupils write it eagerly and read it with enjoyment?
Do teachers approach it with confidence and enthusiasm?
Poetryclass
is the solution for teachers wanting to bring poetry
alive in the classroom. Our online poetry classroom and unique
inset training provides teachers with a 'nuts and bolts' insight
into how poetry works. A training team of poets, all of whom
are highly experienced with work in schools and have between
them hundreds of tried and tested ideas, is available to work
with teachers to overcome their problems and concerns with
teaching poetry.
The
Poetry Society has a long and successful history of education
work. We find that working with poetry is not only a creative
end in itself but also a powerful tool for raising standards
in literacy and developing language skills. It frequently
releases untapped potential amongst students who are not confident
in traditional narrative or essay writing. It also offers
exciting challenges to targeted groups of students and through
subject areas across the curriculum.
THE
ECOPOETRY STUDY PACKS by MARIO PETRUCCI
Resources
for Poetry Lessons & Creative Writing, KS4/5+
DOWNLOAD Poetry
: The Environment (PDF 185KB)
DOWNLOAD Biomimicry
: Poetry (PDF 118KB)
DOWNLOAD The
Green Poetry Pack (PDF 272KB)
Developed by award-winning poet, ecologist and educator Mario
Petrucci, these Environment-centred resource packs are designed
for schools, young adults and poets. The resource comes at
a time when issues of Ecology and the Environment are coming
to the fore throughout education, recreation and business.
Increasingly, writers and educators will need to grapple with
core Environmental issues, both on and off the curriculum,
through personal creativity as well as in the classroom.
