Writing Teachers: 3rd NWP Writing Residential
at High Leigh, Hoddesden, Herts
Sunday 21st – Tuesday 23rd October 2018
This residential course offers teachers a calm and beautiful space in which to write in the company of others. The course privileges writing for ourselves. Here is the chance to develop your own skills as a writer and to strengthen and extend the ways in which you teach writing.
The residential will run from afternoon tea on Sunday until after lunch on Tuesday. Accommodation is en suite single occupancy, though the option to share may be possible.
This innovative and forward-looking course, now in its third year, is designed to provide the context for participants to deepen their knowledge and understanding of writing and writing pedagogy from the inside out; a chance to transform practice.
There will be opportunities for participants to:
The course will be run by Dr Jenifer Smith and Simon Wrigley, authors of Introducing Teachers’ Writing Groups: exploring the theory and practice published by Routledge in 2015. They both have long experience of writing with teachers and children.
"I feel recharged, reinvigorated and ready to continue fighting the good fight!"
"….it was wonderful to be in a place where I could "be myself", have time to write and discuss, and enjoy self-expression in very good company."
"Great range of activities and writing prompts! I will use all of these with my classes! ...... this fantastic residential…. will certainly have an ongoing impact on my own position as a writer as well as a teacher."
Cost: £205 single occupancy en suite bedroom; all meals included. Please contact me if you would like to book a shared room.
Enquiries and applications to be made to:
Jenifer Smith
e-mail: [email protected]
- write for themselves within a community of writers;
- deepen understandings of writing processes;
- understand the nature of writing and the ways in which it informs thinking and learning across the curriculum and can be integral to pupils’ personal, social and spiritual development;
- extend understandings of pupil progress in writing;
- establish a principled understanding of pedagogy arising from research and the experience of teachers’ writing groups.
The course will be run by Dr Jenifer Smith and Simon Wrigley, authors of Introducing Teachers’ Writing Groups: exploring the theory and practice published by Routledge in 2015. They both have long experience of writing with teachers and children.
"I feel recharged, reinvigorated and ready to continue fighting the good fight!"
"….it was wonderful to be in a place where I could "be myself", have time to write and discuss, and enjoy self-expression in very good company."
"Great range of activities and writing prompts! I will use all of these with my classes! ...... this fantastic residential…. will certainly have an ongoing impact on my own position as a writer as well as a teacher."
Cost: £205 single occupancy en suite bedroom; all meals included. Please contact me if you would like to book a shared room.
Enquiries and applications to be made to:
Jenifer Smith
e-mail: [email protected]