How did your school get involved in the Community Arts Partnership’s Seamus Heaney Award/Poetry in Motion Project?
I read about the project on social media and thought it would be fantastic for my P6 class to be involved.
How was your experience with the project?
Extremely positive, educational, fun and engaging. The children quickly built a good relationship with our visiting poet Maura. She shared lots of fun poems and encouraged the children throughout the poetry writing process.
How do you feel the students responded to the project?
The children were fully engaged in the project. They looked forward to Maura’s visits and participated fully. How did you and the students feel about being awarded a commendation for their work in the project?
The children felt really happy about the award. It was a big surprise for us to achieve such a prestigious award.
Do you feel there was a benefit for the students through this Community Arts Partnership project?
The students learnt how to write creatively, to think about the end goal and how they wanted to make people feel after they read their poems. The children improved their ability to embrace metaphors and similes and that poems don’t always have to rhyme
