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Teachers Pack DruidGregory Educational Resources for Primary Schools Information Pack for Teachers DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 2 Contents PAGE 3 Introduction PAGE 3 Resources PAGE 4 Activity Sheets Information PAGE 9 Further engagement PAGE 10 Extracts from Me & Nu PAGE 19 About Lady Gregory PAGE 20 About Druid PAGE 21 About DruidGregory PAGE 23 About Galway 2020 PAGE 24 Contact Us DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 3 Introduction Resources As part of DruidGregory, a Galway The DruidGregory resources include an educational video about Lady Gregory and Lady 2020 commission, Druid has created Gregory Activity Sheets. free educational resources about the The aim of these resources is to inspire Galway Galway writer, Lady Gregory. These children to fall in love with stories and to follow resources are now available to every Lady Gregory’s example and get writing. primary school in Galway. We want young Galway readers and writers to think: ‘Lady Gregory grew up in Galway, just like me. I too could become a great writer, just like her!’ Lady Gregory was a Galway writer who celebrated the people of Galway. The educational video has been made especially for Galway primary schools. The video takes We hope to introduce primary school students on a journey around Lady Gregory’s children to Lady Gregory and, through home in Galway, Coole Park, and introduces them to who Lady Gregory was and what she achieved. her example, to inspire the children of The video also introduces the themes explored in Galway to get reading and writing. the Activity Sheets. The Lady Gregory Activity Sheets are divided by All these resources are available at class groupings, but you are welcome to pick and choose which activities would be most appropriate www.druid.ie/get-involved/education for your students. With the recent interruptions to children’s learning, you will be able to select the best fit for the children in your class. There are two activities associated with each level: • A Puzzle Activity that provides the opportunity to familiarise students with aspects of Lady Gregory’s life and work, for example: colouring-in, wordsearch and crossword. • A Creative Activity that encourages students to be inspired by Lady Gregory and to get creative themselves. Every student will also receive a special colour-in bookmark. We will be posting these bookmarks to every primary school in Galway city and county in October. The aim of the bookmark is to celebrate Lady Gregory, and to encourage children to get reading. DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 4 Activity Sheets Information We recommend showing your students the video about Lady Gregory before they complete these activities. This will provide a context for their work. Breakdown of the activities Junior & Senior Infants: Puzzle Activity: Colour in Lady Gregory’s house Creative Activity: Identify and draw your favourite reading spot 1st & 2nd Class: Puzzle Activity: Maze activity (Lady Gregory’s writing paper blew off in the wind, help her to find it!) Creative Activity: Identify and draw your ideal writing spot 3rd & 4th Class: Puzzle Activity: Lady Gregory Wordsearch Creative Activity: Collect a story – talk to an older person that you know and write down a story from their childhood 5th & 6th Class: Puzzle Activity: Lady Gregory Crossword Creative Activity: Choose a title of one of Lady Gregory’s plays and write your own story inspired by that title DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 5 Junior & Senior Infants: Puzzle Activity: Colour in Lady Creative Activity: Your Favourite Gregory’s house Reading Spot! Coole House is no longer standing. It was Becoming a great writer usually starts with demolished after Lady Gregory’s death. However, becoming a great reader. This activity is designed if you visit Coole Park you will see that the raised to get your students thinking and talking about footprint of the house is still there, so it’s possible the enjoyment of reading. At a young age, the to stand on the exact spot where the house used to most enjoyable aspect of reading is often the be. context in which you read. For example, the experience of sharing books with a parent at There are photos of the house (included in the night-time or sitting on a grandparent’s lap makes video), so we know what it once looked like. the book even more special. Perhaps some However, these photos are in black and white so children most enjoy reading books independently they don’t show what colour the house once was. - maybe tucked up in bed, or sitting under a tree, Therefore, your students are free to use their or at the beach. Talking about and celebrating our imaginations to decide what colour (or colours!) favourite reading spots might help some children the house should be. to see reading books as something fun, exciting and special. By sharing their favourite spots, they will hopefully inspire one another and foster a new appreciation for reading. Lady Gregory loved stories and reading books. She loved to read beside the fireplace, surrounded by the books in her library at Coole Park. Suggestion: reading Extract 1 from Me & Nu (page 11 in this pack) would be a great accompaniment to this activity. In this extract, Lady Gregory is reading to Anne and Nu beside the fireplace in the library at Coole Park. DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 6 This activity is an opportunity for discussion with 1st & 2nd Class: your students about what places might help them to write their stories. Is there somewhere special that inspires them (gives them lost of ideas)? Puzzle Activity: Maze – ‘Help Lady Perhaps this is somewhere quiet: a quiet walk in Gregory Find Her Missing Page!’ the woods might inspire a story about a tiny fairy who lives under the leaves on the forest floor. Perhaps they would prefer somewhere noisy, with This activity is designed to familiarise your lots of people around: clambering on a climbing students with some of the features of Coole Park. frame in a playground might inspire a story about Coole Park was a writer’s retreat - a place where a pirate climbing up to the lookout spot on a writers would go to find inspiration and to find a pirate ship. Or maybe they get their inspiration nice place to write. Coole Lake and the Nut Wood closer to home. Perhaps they have a favourite were some of the places where writers found spot in the garden that gives them exciting ideas, most inspiration. The writers who came to Coole or a cosy nook in their house where they have Park were invited to carve their initials into the space to think? Maybe they get most creative Autograph Tree in the Walled Garden. when they are inside a blanket fort that they have built in their bedroom. Discuss where they might Suggestion: reading Extracts 2 and 3 from Me like to be when they write their next stories, their & Nu (pages 13 and 16 in this pack) would be Writer’s Retreat. a great accompaniment to this activity. These extracts describe some of the writers in Coole Children can be as literal or as imaginative with Park and the Autograph Tree. this activity as they like – responses might vary from the desk where they do their homework, to writing on the moon! Creative Activity: Suggested talking points: What is creativity? Your Ideal Writing Spot! What does inspiration mean? What does imagination mean? Lady Gregory’s home, Coole Park, was a Writers’ Retreat. A Writers’ Retreat is a place where writers Suggestion: reading Extracts 2 and 3 from Me go to get inspiration (or ideas) for their writing & Nu (pages 13 and 16 in this pack) would be and to find a nice place to write. a great accompaniment to this activity. These extracts describe some of the writers in Coole Lady Gregory and many other brilliant Irish writers Park and the Autograph Tree. wrote their stories in Coole Park. Going to Coole Park helped them to write their stories because they had peace and quiet there. They also liked to write in Coole Park because the park itself inspired them (gave them lots of exciting ideas). Some writers got their best ideas among the tall trees as they walked the winding trails through the woods. Other writers went to the lake to get ideas for new stories. Some writers were most inspired when they were enjoying the beautiful flowers in the gardens. DRUID | DRUIDGREGORY | EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS PAGE 7 Folklore definition: stories, sayings, traditions or 3rd & 4th Class: beliefs that are passed down from generation to generation. Puzzle Activity: Lady Gregory Suggestion: read Extract 5 from Me & Nu (page 19 in this pack) about Lady Gregory Wordsearch collecting stories. This is an opportunity for students to become more familiar with the words and themes introduced in the video. Suggested extension for this activity: discover more about the five writers mentioned – Lady Gregory, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats and Seán O’Casey. Creative Activity: Collect a story – talk to an older person that you know and write down a story from their childhood. People love to tell their stories. There is a special opportunity for understanding and bonding when older people share stories from their past with young children. This can also help young children to understand a little more about the world and how it has changed. Writing down the stories that we are told imbues them with importance. For children, this activity is an opportunity to highlight the value of the stories that the people in their lives can share.
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