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Senior phase

Activities suitable for Fourth Year to Sixth Year classes

YA Book Prize 2023

Posted on 18 September 2023
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Fiction
  • Senior phase

Learning to Love Yourself with William Hussey and Amara Sage

Posted on 20 July 202318 September 2023
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Fiction
  • Funny
  • Growing up
  • Mental Health
  • Self image
  • Senior phase

Journeying down the labyrinthine paths of life with Joseph Coelho

Posted on 3 May 20233 May 2023
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Gender
  • Growing up
  • Mythology
  • Senior phase

Reading Scotland: Ross Sayers with Niamh McKeown, Adventures on the Clockwork Orange

Posted on 7 December 202128 April 2022
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Edinburgh
  • Senior phase

Whose Side Are You On? Historical Fiction with Liz Kessler and Alex Wheatle

Posted on 6 July 202116 November 2021
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Festival
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Senior phase

Flash Forward with Femi Fadugba, Ben Oliver and Jonathan Stroud

Posted on 6 July 202116 November 2021
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Festival
  • Fiction
  • Future Fiction
  • Senior phase

Be the Change with Gina Martin

Posted on 5 July 202116 November 2021
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Festival
  • Human rights
  • Senior phase
  • Sexism

What’s the T? with Juno Dawson & Special Guests

Posted on 5 July 202116 November 2021
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Festival
  • Gender
  • Non-fiction
  • Senior phase

Writing Resistance with Nikita Gill and Nic Stone

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Fight against social injustice with SLAM! and Dear Justyce
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Senior phase

Retelling Tales with Joseph Coelho, Juno Dawson and Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Subvert classic stories with The Girl Who Became a Tree, Wonderland and The Deathless Girls
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 4
  • Key stage 5
  • Senior phase
  • Storytelling

Delving Into Dark Themes with Liz Hyder

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Explore life in the mines with Bearmouth
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Senior phase

Shine On with Dean Atta and George Lester

Posted on 18 August 202017 September 2020
Celebrate self-empowerment with The Black Flamingo and Boy Queen
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Festival
  • Gender
  • Human rights
  • Key stage 4
  • Senior phase

Yours Faithfully: Letter Writing with Leyla Josephine

Posted on 12 August 202021 August 2020
This reflective writing exercise, devised by our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, helps provide a structure for a personal piece of writing.
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Self image
  • Senior phase

Word Box: Making a Game out of Writing with Leyla Josephine

Posted on 4 August 20204 August 2020
Even reluctant writers will find their voice using this playful exercise.
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Self image
  • Senior phase

I Am: Writing a Self-Portrait Poem with Leyla Josephine

Posted on 29 July 202028 July 2020
Learn how to write poetry about yourself without worrying about structure or rhyming in this resource written by our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence Leyla Josephine.
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Poetry
  • Self image
  • Senior phase

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