As part of our drive to raise standards in writing, four Year 6 children were lucky enough to take part in an Able Writers workshop at Rockliffe Manor Primary School on Monday. The day was led by Phil Wilcox, a poet who has competed in poetry slam competitions around the world.
During the day, the children learnt techniques to help expand their imagination, practised using a range of hand gestures while performing and learnt about the power of 'sprinkling' rhyme throughout a poem (rather than just using rhyming couplets at the end of lines).
They wrote a few different poems - including a giant group poem and an individual poem with a repeated chorus, which they performed in a mini 'poetry slam'.
