Welcome to Literacy Loans – a scheme that puts students, objects and professional writers together to boost creativity, and especially creative writing.
“The sessions sparked weeks of writing work. The students were particularly motivated and engaged. We would definitely do it again.”
“The children loved it. I loved it. And we got a lot of brilliant writing out of it.”
First choose the object you’d like to borrow. For SEND classes we also provide a related sensory item.
Read about our professional writers and choose who you would like to work with. Your Education Officer will be able to help book the writer and organise an online planning meeting for you all.
Next organise an online session with one of our Education Officers who can introduce students to your object in an interactive way.
Finally, try out some of the Get Creative writing activities and resources either before, between or after your sessions with your writer.
Students at Priory Woods School were sent a mysterious object. It was some sort of strange stick. Along with it came an odd-smelling pink block. What could it be? With the help of Learning Officer, Joanne Rowcliffe, and using their historical enquiry thinking skills, students determined that this was a poss stick. The smelly bar was carbolic soap. What else could follow except a full-on exploration of washing and soap making, culminating in students selling their own soap at the Xmas Fayre?
