26 February 2019
We welcomed the poet, Dom Conlon to our CHS Library to run a series of workshops with our Year 7 and Year 8 students as part of our #STEMfest2019 celebrations.
Dom began his sessions by reading a selection of his poems before going on to discuss the inspirations for his writing; his interest in space travel and futuristic technologies and his personal heroes, such as his father.
He encouraged our students to think and discuss their own heroes or inspirational figures. Dom then gave our budding poets new and creative ways to begin writing by providing them with sentence starters and asking them to jumble up and rearrange their words and ideas. Each student was then given the challenge to continue and complete their own poems using the ideas and techniques they had learned.
