New for 2018 from The Wordsworth Trust Primary Schools Early Years For the next two terms (Spring and Summer 2018), we are offering free Rucksack of Rhymes sessions for children in preschool groups and reception classes in Cumbria and North Lancashire. These fun, creative sessions last an hour and are a combination of songs, stories, play time and craft activities designed to help children develop their knowledge of nature and life in Cumbria 200 years ago. We have nine themes to choose from: Bugs and Butterflies, Cumbrian Animals, Plants and Flowers, The Weather, Georgian Home Life, Autumn, Winter, All the Colours in the Rainbow and The Three Bears. Key Stage 2: Arts Award, Weather Key Stage 2: Frankenstein and Climate Change 2018 marks the bicentenary of the A series of activities looking at the publication of Frankenstein, the literary responses of Romantic writers and masterpiece that today is world famous artists to the weather, and then linking as the source of two of our most enduring these with contemporary concerns about archetypes: the obsessive scientist climate change. The project involves and the almost-human he creates. To two free outreach sessions from The celebrate, we are offering workshops Wordsworth Trust to you, with a visit to on this enduring Romantic period work. the Trust (£6 per pupil) in the middle. Through drama and creative writing we will Students will have the opportunity to explore the story, characters and themes explore work by Romantic writers and of the novel before debating some of artists and then create their own visual the moral questions raised, such as: what and written responses to that work, and responsibilities come with knowledge to the wider themes of weather and and power, and, what makes us human? climate. This will lead to students Available as part of an on-site visit, or as achieving Arts Award Discover, or, with outreach, from 5th May until the end of further classroom work and exploration the summer term to coincide with our (guided by us), Arts Award Explore. The exhibition, ‘In Search of Mary Shelley: cost of the Arts Award will be covered by The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein’. the Wordsworth Trust. CPD for teachers: Creative Writing A free two-hour session run by the Wordsworth Trust education team. This interactive session offers the chance to use Dorothy Wordsworth’s writing, and the inspiring location of Dove Cottage, to stimulate creative writing – and to have a go yourself. There will be lots of tips and ideas as well as tea, cake and the opportunity to enjoy Dove Cottage after the day’s visitors have gone home. Two half-day outreach sessions are free when you book a visit to Dove Cottage. For Bookings and Enquiries contact: [email protected] Or call: 015394 35544 www.wordsworth.org.uk New for 2018 from The Wordsworth Trust Secondary Schools Key Stage 3, 4 and 5: Frankenstein Key Stage 3: Arts Award, Weather 2018 marks the bicentenary of the and Climate Change publication of Frankenstein, the literary A series of activities looking at the masterpiece that today is world famous as responses of Romantic writers and the source of two of our most enduring artists to the weather, and then archetypes: the obsessive scientist and the linking these with contemporary almost-human he creates. To celebrate, we concerns about climate change. The are offering workshops on this enduring project involves two free outreach Romantic period work. The workshop will sessions from The Wordsworth Trust to include elements of discussion and debate you, with a visit to the Trust (£7 per focussing on some of the themes of the pupil) in the middle. Students will have novel, as well as looking at story and the opportunity to explore work by character. Romantic writers and artists and then create their own visual and written Available as part of an on-site visit, or as responses to that work, and to the outreach, from 5th May until the end of the wider themes of weather and climate. summer term to coincide with our This will lead to students achieving Arts exhibition, ‘In Search of Mary Shelley: The Award Discover, or, with further Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein’. classroom work and exploration (guided by us), Arts Award Explore. The cost of the Arts Award will be covered by the Wordsworth Trust. CPD for teachers: Creative Writing A free two-hour session run by the Wordsworth Trust education team. This interactive session offers the chance to use Dorothy Wordsworth’s writing, and the inspiring location of Dove Cottage, to stimulate creative writing – and to have a go yourself. There will be lots of tips and ideas as well as tea, cake and the opportunity to enjoy Dove Cottage after the day’s visitors have gone home. And finally … We are still offering our ‘Introduction to Romanticism’ sessions as outreach, or as part of an on-site visit. These offer context for the Romantic period: the when, where, why, what and who, followed by the chance to explore one or more of the Romantic poems in the GCSE Anthologies, with a focus on what makes them Romantic, and how they fit within their cluster. This can be Wordsworth’s ‘boat-stealing’, but could equally be Blake’s ‘London’ or Byron’s ‘She walks in beauty’. This session can be extended to look at how one of the more contemporary poems in the cluster links to the Romantic poem. Two half-day outreach sessions are free when you book a visit to Dove Cottage. For Bookings and Enquiries contact: [email protected] Or call: 015394 35544 www.wordsworth.org.uk.