Teachers Workshops were held most recently in Suffolk in March 2009. They were led by Jane Anderson, The Poetry Trust’s Learning & Outreach expert. Jane is a published poet who taught Secondary English for over twenty years. She has an MA in Creative Writing and now works in a variety of education settings running poetry workshops for pupils and teachers.

These workshops provide examples of exercises to take back to your classroom. They also offer the experience and buzz of writing yourself and space to consider how poetry can help pupils use language more effectively, in literacy and English and across the curriculum. These sessions are suitable for teachers from all key stages.

Really inspiring and gently informative: great for self-development as well as professional ideas.

The next series of Teachers Workshops are planned for Autumn 2009.

The Poetry Trust is currently preparing a Toolkit for Teachers which will be available free as a download or as a printed version.

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Additional support from
Inclusive School Improvement Service

Grateful thanks to the Ernest Cook Trust and the Barbara Whatmore Trust for supporting the Teachers Workshops