Welcome to our schools programme for 2012, we hope you will find something here to excite and inspire your pupils.
Our projects reflect the themes of the festival and involves some of the fantastic authors that come especially to Bath for the ten days of the festival.
Poet in Residence
Enthuse and inspire your students to write, read and perform poetry with our Poet-in-Residence Mandy Coe, an award-winning poet whose work for adults and children has been widely published and broadcast.
Like many young writers, Mandy has sat down a thousand times thinking: "I don’t know what to write…" But we strongly believe this state of not-knowing is to be encouraged and supported; you are not supposed to know: you’re supposed to imagine it and Mandy will be on hand to guide your pupils through this process.
Aesop's Fables
As part of our Olympic Ideal strand, celebrating the London Olympic Games 2012, we are asking children and young people to fire up their imaginations and create a contemporary re-working of Aesop’s Fables. These fables are often a popular choice for the moral education of our children, but in these changing times this project will offer young people the chance to create moral tales for the adults that control their world.
Anthologise
This is a project spearheaded by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, intended to encourage the wider reading, appreciation and enjoyment of poetry by pupils in schools. Open to all schools in the UK, groups of any size are invited to work together to create an anthology of poetry, using the resources and guidelines provided on www.anthologise.co.uk
Download our information for Primary Schools here
Download our information for Secondary Schools here