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08 November 2025

Posted by Amelia

Junior & Young Writers: Week 4 - Play on Words

In today's session we explored myth, poetry, and performance to get ready for the showcase.


We started off with a check in: Describe your week as a meal? 


Henry- suspicious food (too many episodes of the traitors) 

Evan- mac and cheese, a good week! 

Catherine- a never ending meal 


One person starts by saying a simple statement (e.g. “It’s raining outside!”).

The next person repeats the same line, but expresses it using a different emotion, for example, happy, sad, angry, scared, or excited. Keep passing it around the circle, with each person choosing a new emotion or exaggerating one that’s already been used!


Then we focused on on a writing exercise using myths and legends as our inspiration. We wrote about how a God or creature from the past may feel if they had woken up in today’s society. 


With our creativity flowing we looked at two poems and had a go at writing and performing our own! 


We performed our poems and reflected on our performances and gave feedback to each other. This was a lovely exercise and got us thinking ready for our Showcase. 


Our Junior writers focused on planning their performance around their Cake Cult world and characters. How they’ll present as a collective! 


This was a really fun and inspiring session 


Keep writing! 


Amelia 


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