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Jez
Walsh will be visiting Turnshaws School in Kirkburton over the next
few weeks to encourage pupils there, and from nearby Shelley High
School, to produce poetry. He starts by asking them to write a little
bit about themselves in a rap, if they feel they can.
He
is hopeful that by the end of May the children will have written
enough to fill a book: "I think they are working absolutely
brilliantly, far better than I was expecting. The pupils are actually
getting in there and mixing and writing together which is brilliant."
Click below
to hear more
about
the poetry book
being written by
students at
Turnshaws and Shelley
High schools.
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The
students at Turnshaws have profound learning difficulties so the
range of the abilities of the budding poets is wide.
Turnshaws
teacher Jane Sobanski says the whole of her class can join in: "It's
nice to mix with the Shelley students because a lot of the (Turnshaws)
students don't speak but they can experience poetry and really enjoy
it, and we have done quite a lot of poetry in the past. You know,
we go outside and find words and listen to things so it's great
to have the mixture."
Nick,
15, from Shelley High, says he has enjoyed working with Jez and
the Turnshaws students: "I thought it might be quite serious
but it is great fun."
Shelley
teacher Ailsa Campbell talks about the first day's work: "I
thought the students mixed very well. They were very comfortable
and they also got some work done as well. I think they also learned
poetry-writing skills so, really, what they learned from today was
two-fold - social skills and poetry writing skills."
We
hope to bring you more about the poetry book very shortly.
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