Primary and secondary school pupils will experience, learn and participate with the outreach provider who brings with them valuable industry experience and will interact with your pupils through hands-on activities, presentations and Q&As in this creative workshop.
The creative workshop provider might cover the following areas tailored to your educational group’s needs:
- meet a real author and ask questions about their books, writing, and publishing process. They may also get to understand an author’s workspace, writing tools and environment through the workshop presentation.
- Engage in creative writing such as character creation through visual representation of their character through drawing, painting and writing
- World-building, plot development and dialogue writing.
- Share their own personal writing, ideas with the author and other pupils on the workshop
- Participate in a writing challenge. Can help pupils to build confidence as future writers and to get feedback on their work.
- Understand the importance of storytelling and appreciate the different ways in which stories can be told. Pupils may also learn about the different genres of literature and how to write different types of stories themselves.
Overall, participating in these workshops can be a valuable and enriching experience for primary and secondary school pupils. It can help them to develop their writing skills, creativity, and appreciation for literature. The workshops providers can also tailor their workshops to specific themes or topics. For example, a workshop might focus on a particular genre of literature, such as fantasy, science fiction, or historical fiction and integrate with the topic or subject you are studying at school to interlink with the national curriculum.
