Projects for KS3
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9 Days of Scriptwriting (Brief summary)
A 9 day workshop in which Year 9 students wrote, performed and recorded their own radio play
Norton Secondary School in collaboration with New Writing North (www.newwritingnorth.com) -
A day of publishing, podcasting & engineering (Comprehensive resource)
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A Shakespeare-themed day (Comprehensive resource)
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A Whole Day Writing (Case study)
A writer leads a one-day creative writing workshop with Year 8 pupils at Manchester Art Gallery
Walkden High School -
Articulate (Brief summary)
Paintings as stimulus for writing
National Gallery -
Big write - Cranbrook (Brief summary)
Writing for pleasure, creating a book of short stories
Cranbrook High School -
Birmingham words (Brief summary)
Online magazine for creative reading and writing
Birmingham Words -
Bodmin bookworm (Case study)
A creative writing weblog-based project designed to encourage reading, writing and creativity in children aged 4 to 18.
11 primary schools and one secondary as well as being open to home schooled children in the area. -
Building bridges (Brief summary)
Raising attainment in reading and writing
Scottish Executive Education Department -
Children blogging: Exploring the Field (Case study)
Developing language skills in response to a sporting event
Michael Farraday Primary School and Roehampton University -
Coathooks and corridors (Brief summary)
Writing about the history of a school
Creative Partnerships/ Cornwall LEA -
Computer clubs 4 girls (CC4G) (Brief summary)
Encouraging girls use of ICT and writing
DfES/e-skills uk -
Crafting word boxes about ourselves (Case study)
Students at a special school explore their own identities and connect to each other as a group through writing
The Bridge School and SHAPE -
Drama for learning and creativity (D4LC) (Brief summary)
Impact of drama on learning and creativity
NESTA/ Norfolk Services for Children -
Every object tells a story (Brief summary)
Using objects as a stimulus for writing
Victorian and Albert Museum, Ultralab, Channel 4 -
Everybody Writes in Science (Case study)
Explanatory writing that is meaningful, playful and takes writing to a whole school audience.
Kidbrooke School & Arts College -
Five Days in a School (Case study)
A Year 8 poetry workshop with a professional poet
Hardenhuish Secondary School -
Fool’s Gold (Brief summary)
Secondary school publish a graphic novel
Dearne High School -
Footprints in the sand (Brief summary)
Field trip inspired creative writing in KS3 Science
Settlebeck High School, Cumbria and Creative Partnerships -
Goal! secondary sports journalism project (Case study)
KS3 and KS4 students using sports journalism in the workplace
Harrow Way Community School, Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service (HIAS) and the Aim Higher Project -
Headliners (Brief summary)
Childrens journalism projects
Headliners -
Inspiration aspiration partnership project (Brief summary)
Enriching young people's experience of the arts
Devon Arts in Schools Initiative (DAISI) -
Little green pig writing project (Case study)
Writing group for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4
http://www.littlegreenpig.wordpress.com -
Play in a day (Case study)
Sixth formers work with an arts organization to create a play from scratch in a day
St Cecilia’s Secondary School and Create Arts -
Raising boys achievement in literacy (Brief summary)
UKLA and PNS report
PNS/ UKLA/ Essex LEA/ Medway LEA -
Reading the signs (Comprehensive resource)
Year 8 and Year 9 groups creatively “re-sign” their schools in a writing, poetry and D&T project
Turves Green Boys’ Technology and Humanities College -
Reading the signs (Year 8) (Case study)
Year 8 students re-sign their library with their own original poetry and writing
Turves Green Boys’ Technology and Humanities College -
Reading the signs (Year 9) (Case study)
Year 9 students create an LED sign for their library and write their own original poetry to be displayed on it
St Alban’s CE Specialist Engineering College -
Right to write (Brief summary)
Looked-after childrens writing
Knowsley and St Helens Right to Read Project and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation -
Roma Picture Book Project (Case study)
Key Stage 2 and 3 children write books celebrating traditional Roma and Traveller stories
Akademia Pstryk and The Children’s Society
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