02 March 2024
Posted by Sukie & Claire
Hi Writers!
In this week’s workshop we played with Picture Prompts!
During our check-in we described our weeks as a colour.
In our reading check-in we found out we’ve mostly been continuing our books from last week
Indie: ‘The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe’
Marissa: ‘A Place Called Perfect’
Hamish: ‘Bunny Versus Monkey’ and ‘The Phoenix’
Evan: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’
Sukie: ‘Dorset Up Along and Down Along’
Claire: ‘The Witches of Vargo’
This week we also did a writing check-in to see what everyone had been writing recently, and found
out that Indie had been working on a report on the River Nile; Evan was writing a piece inspired by
‘Escape From Pompeii’, and Marissa was partway through a non-chronological report about the
venomous lizards in ‘Holes’.
Next, we all picked a ‘character’ from one of the magazines Claire had gathered and spent some
time making a character profile for them. Claire gave us the setting of an art gallery, and we each
told the story of how our character had wound up there. We looked in the magazines again for an
art piece our characters might each be looking at, and described them using all the senses and the
feelings they evoked, before Claire gave us the next step: our characters got sucked into the gallery
paintings! Everyone described what the world they had been pulled into was like, and we took turns
sharing our stories:
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone next week!
Don’t forget, the Shaftesbury Tales writing competition has opened! Open to writers living in Dorset
(so that’s at least some of you!), it has age categories of 11 & under; 12-16; 17-19; 25 & under, and
‘open to all’. It’s a community project with a procession from Corfe to Shaftesbury, performing the
tales of people living in the Dark Ages in villages along the route.
Please do spread the word and submit something – if you are looking for some extra eyes on your work, do come along to the Junior
(7-11) & Young (11-14) Writer workshops at Forest Arts, New Milton.
Just as a reminder, we run on Saturday mornings (09:30 for Junior Writers and 11:30 for Young Writers) and you can sign up by
contacting the Forest Arts Centre directly, or come along and we can add you to the list!
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