The sessions with Simon Wrigley have been not only immensely enjoyable but extremely worthwhile as a teacher, to re-examine how it feels to write creatively and to develop a bank of resources to use with children in the classroom.
To be able to develop oneself as a writer has seemed a very decadent process. The sessions have been thought provoking, promoted a deep sense of self-reflection; they have been highly emotive and provided a space to unearth abilities which have been dormant for an extremely long time!
The sessions have been hugely empowering as it has been a very long time that I have written anything other than school reports in either my capacity as a class teacher, a SENDCo or senior leader.
Initially the overwhelming emotion was anxiety when I realised I would have commit words to a page and that I may have to share my writing. That progressed to greatly looking forward to the writing journal sessions and a sense of wanting to share my writing as it dawned on me that I had written something worthwhile.
One can only hope, as a teacher, that the pupils in your class may experience a similar journey with positive connotations of writing rather than the initial feelings of anxiety that many children experience when faced with a blank page.
This is something I will be developing with my own class next year as I will now be class teaching for part of the week, with a view to rolling out this good practice across the whole school.
To be able to develop oneself as a writer has seemed a very decadent process. The sessions have been thought provoking, promoted a deep sense of self-reflection; they have been highly emotive and provided a space to unearth abilities which have been dormant for an extremely long time!
The sessions have been hugely empowering as it has been a very long time that I have written anything other than school reports in either my capacity as a class teacher, a SENDCo or senior leader.
Initially the overwhelming emotion was anxiety when I realised I would have commit words to a page and that I may have to share my writing. That progressed to greatly looking forward to the writing journal sessions and a sense of wanting to share my writing as it dawned on me that I had written something worthwhile.
One can only hope, as a teacher, that the pupils in your class may experience a similar journey with positive connotations of writing rather than the initial feelings of anxiety that many children experience when faced with a blank page.
This is something I will be developing with my own class next year as I will now be class teaching for part of the week, with a view to rolling out this good practice across the whole school.