Creative Writing/Creative Thinking Workshop
When Steve Bowkett was thirteen, his French teacher sent
him to the Naughty Corner and told him to 'do something
constructive'. He started to write for his own amusement,
and is now (although no longer residing in the Naughty
Corner) a widely-published author of books for adults and
children. Steve was a full-time classroom teacher for 18
years, and is passionate about brain-based learning and
accelerated learning techniques. His Creative Writing,
Creative Thinking workshops are inspiring and engaging,
leaving children highly motivated to write their own stories
and poems.
Each workshop is preceded by a story-telling session,
where Steve talks about his books and his love of writing.
He also introduces the children to the Double Dare Gang,
a group of children growing up in the mining valleys of
South Wales. Steve has told the DDG tales for years, to
thousands of children at scores of schools. Children love
the stories, because the Double Dare Gang are just ordinary
kids, getting up to mischief but never really hurting anyone.
And the point is that while they play, so they `rehearse
the world`, learning to be the kind of people they must
be to flourish when they are adults.
The story-telling session breaks the ice and leaves the
children eager to take part in the creative workshops that
follow. The story-telling sessions may include a whole
year group, but the workshop sessions are restricted to
class size to allow for the interaction and participation
of the entire group.
The workshop is in two phases:
- Playing games that generate enthusiasm, ideas and
confidence
- Doing story-making activities using counters, dice,
pictures, and music
These two phases represent the generation and early organisation
of ideas. The workshop stimulates ideas orally, and children
begin planning on paper, thus laying the groundwork for
future writing.
Children leave Steve's workshops with the confidence and
enthusiasm to have ideas in a safe environment, and equipped
with the advice and framework to begin formatting those
ideas in a creative yet systematic way.
If you would like to learn more about this workshop, please
contact the Alite office, on 01628 810700, or email office@alite.co.uk
Read more about the consultants who work on this programme:
Steve
Bowkett
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