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Let's Write Poetry: The Big Slam (episode 1) "Observation" |
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
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United Kingdom |
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In Let's Write Poetry - The Big Slam 16 children are given a week off school, taken to a farm in Devon and are given a poetry writing challenge. As programme makers, we had our own challenges. We deliberately selected children with mixed literary abilities from very different environments to test the theory that anyone can write poetry if given the correct tools to do so. Taking them out of school for a week posed its own challenge. What child would not want a week off school, go to a farm in the middle of the most beautiful countryside, and ride on tractors without their parents? Poetry writing seemed easily forgotten! However, by the end, every single child had written a poem to be proud of and proved the programmes' aim - poetry writing is fun and everyone can write one. I, along with my colleagues, am thrilled to be runner-up in the Early Education Category in the JAPAN PRIZE and would like to thank the judges for recognising the programme and its educational value. It is especially pleasing this year, as three months after making the programme, BBC Children's Television closed down the Education Unit and made the majority of staff redundant.
Andrea Gauld
Producer |