Pie Corbett

Pie Corbett Inservice conference.

Venue: Tate Modern, Bankside, London . The Starr Auditorium & Foyer (River Entrance)
Date:  Monday 19th March 2012

The inspirational, charismatic and creative Literacy educator Pie Corbett will explore with delegates developing poetry, storytelling and writing through the Arts e.g paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs.

Cost £199.00* + VAT including lunch and refreshments OR
£184.00* +vat including refreshments excluding lunch

*Group bookings over 5 delegates: 10% discount

RSVP to Eddie Burnett
Children’s book consultant & Literacy Events Coordinator
31a Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath, London, SE3 7AE
T. (020)8293 6060 T.(020) 8265 4645 F. (020) 8465 5111
E. eddie.burnett@jubileebooks.co.uk

Download Booking Form

One day inservice conference outline

Pie Corbett will explore with delegates developing poetry, storytelling and writing through the Arts e.g paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs

9.30 am Registration and refreshments.
9.30 – 9.45 am Welcome by Eddie Burnett Director of Jubileebooks.co.uk Ltd
Talk by Anne Cutler, Director of Learning at Tate about  it’s work and engagement with schools.

9.45 -10.15 Talk by Sue McGonigle CLPE Power of Reading Project: promoting enjoyment and achievement

This successful national project raises achievement by engaging teachers and children in the literacy curriculum through using high quality books and creative teaching approaches.

10.15 – 11.15 am Session 1
Reading images, creative games and writing poetry.

Break 11.15am -11.35 am

11.35 -12.35am Session 2
Drama, storytelling and art.

Lunch 12.35 – 13.40pm and opportunity to look at Tate Modern’s collection Displays

Prompt start 13.40 -14.40 pm Session 3

From images, through telling into writing.

14.40 – 15.40 pm Performance by Poet John Agard and James Carter

Close and thanks

Download, complete and return the booking form for this event ASAP to avoid dissappointment

Aims:

1. To inspire a creative curriculum
2. To develop greater teacher confidence
3. To develop quality teacher pupil interaction.
4. Promote first class out of school learning opportunities.
5. Set high standards in quality first teaching
6. To develop a sustainable and ever expanding development of teaching and enthusiasm for teaching across the curriculum

Objectives:

1. By promoting effective teaching practices to develop critical thinkers, readers and writers.
2. Demonstrating quality teacher / pupils interactive strategies and activities.
3. By supporting exceptional people to be exceptional teachers.
4. By enabling good teachers to be confident, fluent and secure in their teaching.
5. By demonstrating creative practice within a sound framework of proven strategies.

Quotes from our very successful Turner Contemporary event

Super- very useful,lots of ideas- made me very inspired
S Davies Cheriton Primary School

Masses of great ideas to inspire teaching and learning
Jo Barnes Cheriton Primary School

Fantastic!
Sophie Nicol- Plumcroft Primary School

Very useful contained lots of creative ideas we can use in the classroom
Cathy Felton Bobbing Village School

Interesting, engaging, insightful and interactive, well presented and delivered. Thought provoking and motivating. Learning made fun!
Vicki Browne Canterbury Christ Church University

Fun exploration of creativity. I want the children to experience the same joy of language I experienced and rediscovered today
S Godby Deal Parochial CE primary school

Fabulous –so many helpful ideas techniques and modeling. Truly inspirational
D Theaker Deal Parochial CE primary school

Description of event

Schools event aimed at primary and secondary aged pupils to celebrate African Caribbean Rhymes and Beats through poetry and its influence on black music genres such as calypso, reggae, rap and dub poetry. The event will chart the history of African Caribbean voices through poetry and its influence on black music genre’s.

In looking at the context in which it has developed, we will explore its links to Africa, the Caribbean and the American civil rights movement through a critical appraisal of Bob Marley and the poet and musician, Gill Scott-Heron’s work. Their undeniable influence on black contemporary music will be discussed through an explication of rap and grime artists.

The Project  

Partner schools will have resident poets working in their school developing poems linked to the theme African Caribbean Beats, African Caribbean Voices together with music genres such as calypso, reggae, rap and Dub poetry.

Pupils will also be encouraged to understand the poetic beats and rhythms of the African Caribbean together with the historical context in which calypso, reggae, rap and dub poetry, was also a social commentary of the times?

Residencies will consist of 2 days providing 8 contact sessions and will be developed with lead teacher and artist. The max 30 pupils per workshop session will be catered for.

View Here to complete School Booking  and enquiry form http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/African-Caribbean-beats-African-Caribbean-Voices.pdf

Jubileebooks resident Poet and creative writing lecturer Ronnie Mc Garth will guide pupils through an interactive multimedia presentation punctuated by performances.

The day will be aimed at key stage 2, 3 and 4 pupils, and teachers. The residency will reference some of the seminal moments in the development of Black poetry and music.

Demonstrating best practice when using the Arts to stimulate the development of writing, creativity and critical thinking together with the importance of the arts in our culture and its impact in Literacy and history education, social and political commentary.

Talmud Bah is a freelance creative educationalist.

A specialist teacher in behaviour management and emotional literacy through creativity, Talmud teaches foundation stage to key stage 4, as well as further and adult education.

By using the arts as a medium, he blends philosophy, martial arts, lyricism, voice, dance and modern culture; to create an educationally rich explorative journey, resulting in a unique artistic process and culturally relevant style of performance, literature and art.

Mission statement

A promotion of Black British History through Music and Poetry celebrating its social commentary and political comment and influence marking the 30^thAnniversary of the Brixton Riots, Bob Marley’s death, and the current passing of Gill- Scott Heron.

Goldilocks on CCTV follows The Young Inferno, which John Agard describes as a”teenage version” of Dante’s Inferno”. Very well reviewed, it won the CLPE Poetry Award 2009.

When not writing poems John Agard is busy performing them: “Poetry lives in the breath, “he says, and of performing live: “It’s almost like going back to that collective thing around the fire.”

(Source acknowledgement  bookseller 5/12 August) 

To Book John Agard for a school visits please call 020 8293 6060.

Purchase John Agard’s poetry and view proposed dates for 2011 school visits.

Date: Wednesday 2nd November 2011
Venue: Turner Contemporary (Margate)
Cost: £180 + VAT including lunch and refreshments or £172.50 + VAT including refreshments*

*10% discount for group bookings over 5 delegates: Lunch and refreshments £162.50 + VAT per person

Developing Poetry, Storytelling and Writing through Art

Pie Corbett will explore with delegates developing poetry, storytelling and writing through the Arts e.g paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs.

Aims:

• To promote the importance of the imagination when developing storytelling and writing through the arts in Literacy teaching and its impact on our cultural identity, literature and language.
• To provide a unique training opportunity for teachers in a stimulating environment with nationally acclaimed and leading creative literacy educator Pie Corbett.
• To explore best practice using art to develop storytelling, poetry and story writing.
• To provide practical ideas teachers can take back to the classroom.

Goals:

• To inspire good teachers
• To support the improvement of classroom teaching and out of school learning
• By responding to works of art
• By creating effective and versatile storytellers and writers

Conference Outline

10.00 am – Registration and refreshments.
10.30 – 10.45 am – Welcome by Eddie Burnett Director of Jubileebooks.co.uk. Talk by Beatrice Prosser- Snelling Education Department @ Turner Contemporary (Margate) and it’s work and engagement with schools.
10.45 – 11.40 am – Session 1: Reading images, creative games and writing poetry.
11.40 – 12.00 am – Talk by Sue McGonigle CLPE Power of Reading Project: promoting enjoyment and achievement. This successful national project raises achievement by engaging teachers and children in the literacy curriculum through using high quality books and creative teaching approaches.
12.00 -12.20 am – Break
12.20 -13.15pm – Session 2: Drama, storytelling and art.
13.15 – 14.40pm – Lunch and opportunity to look at the Turner Contemporary (Margate) collection ‘Nothing in the World but Youth’ Exhibition. A collection of 200 pieces of art.
14.40 -15.30 pm – Session 3: From images, through telling into writing.
15.30 – 16.00 pm – Performance by Poet John Agard
Close and thanks

Pie Corbett Turner Contemporary Booking Form

Pie Corbett - Igniting Writing

Date: Wednesday 6th April 2011
Venue: National Maritime Museum
Cost: £175+vat* inclusive of lunch & refreshments, £160+vat inclusive of refreshments without lunch

*Group bookings over 5 delegates: 10% discount

Pie Corbett will explore with delegates developing Literacy through a theme. This exciting inservice conference aims to develop teaching practice in literacy with the view to raising standards and attainment in literacy across the curriculum.

This exciting inservice conference aims to consider how schools can move forward to excellence through developing teaching practice in literacy with the view to raise standards
and attainment in literacy across the curriculum.

• By inspiring good teachers
• By developing reading for understanding
• By creating effective and versatile writers
• By extending vocabulary and comprehension
• Supporting the improvement of classroom teaching and out of school learning

For a full itinerary download the booking form below.

Download Booking Form

face

Jubilee Books is delighted to announce the launch of Wonder Wall, an exciting new writing project for schools. Celebrating the importance of writing in our culture, Wonder Wall promotes creative strategies for developing writing across the curriculum, offering the opportunity for pupils, teachers, parents and carers to engage with real writing models and develop skills alongside leading authors, poets, illustrators, storytellers and dramatists.

What is Wonder Wall?

• Wonder Wall promotes the importance of writing in school and its impact on communication in all its forms, on personal identity, literature, community cohesion and culture.
• creates opportunities for teachers and pupils to work with published authors, storytellers, poets and dramatists to develop collaborative relationships through the writing process
• uses artefacts, games, poetry, storytelling and other tools as stimuli for talking about writing
• provides writing workshops led by authors, storytellers, poets and dramatists which meet the needs of different learning styles
• extends gifted and talented writers
• helps the school, pupils and teachers develop successful strategies to raise pupils’ self esteem and confidence in their writing, making an impact on achievement and attainment
• offers after-school sessions for teachers and parents/carers interested in developing their own writing, storytelling skills or writing for children, for up to 4 one hour sessions during the period of the residency.

What makes Wonder Wall distinctive?

It’s about development, sustainability and partnership – as well as creativity and enjoyment!

The work done before, during and after the Wonder Wall residency sessions will be designed to support and extend the work of the school in developing pupils as confident and versatile writers. Schools will choose the creative partner/s best suited to their needs and, together with the Wonder Wall team, co-design the residency package they know will make a lasting impact on their pupils and staff. The team includes a teaching practitioner with extensive classroom and leadership team experience. We will:

• liaise with the headteacher and teaching and learning colleagues to agree learning objectives, outcomes and action plans
• provide in-school support on the residency days
• monitor and evaluate the residency sessions to provide feedback for the school
• work with the school on follow-up to build on what has been achieved during the residency

The residency can be located within a six week period, the number of days and sessions negotiated in response to the school’s budget and requirements.

For more information about Wonder Wall and what it could do for your school, contact project director Eddie Burnett, Children’s Book Consultant and Literacy Events Coordinator.
Education consultant: Diana Bruce

British Museum

An inspirational inset day with Pie Corbett incorporating Children’s authors, poets and storytellers at the British Museum exploring ways of using artefacts and cultural heritage in a creative and engaging way to stimulate writing.

A must have day for school diaries, Deputy Head teachers, Literacy Coordinators, Key stage Coordinators and Head teachers!

The day will focus on creativity and developing writing across the curriculum using the British Museum collection as a stimulus with the inspirational, charismatic and creative Literacy educator Pie Corbett.

This stimulating day will incorporate facilitated workshop sessions with established children’s authors, storytellers and poets Valerie Bloom, Alan Durant and Saviour Pirotta. Together they have many years experience working in schools exciting and stimulating writing with pupils across Key stages 1-3.

Through developing approaches that could be adapted for a range of meaningful and purposeful cultural and educational school visits.

Wonders Words and Writing Booking Form

Jubileebooks.co.uk in partnership with the British Museum

Programme outline

Session 1

Pie will consider different possibilities for using visits to museums and galleries especially focussing on using artifacts and images as a basis for imaginative writing, to create stories, poetry and non-fiction.
He will include a range of creative games that help to warm up the imagination and then demonstrate how a visit might lead into the full range of writing.  Previous projects based in galleries and museums have seen a very powerful effect  on children’s engagement as writers. Teachers interested
in using first hand experiences in this way will find this session especially useful.

Session 2

During this session, Pie will model how to use shared writing to directly teach writing, including mini demonstrations of poetry, story and non-fiction writing . He will show how to use artifacts to write imaginatively. Everyone will play a range of story games using different objects and images.  For children to write well, we have to engage their imaginations and interest.
We know that children write best about what they know as well as what matters to them. This session pursues the notion that curiosity is a key ingredient in developing writing.

Workshop

This will focus on using storytelling techniques to develop different stories orally before moving into writing. It will be ideal for anyone interested in ‘talk for writing’ and wishing to use those techniques on visits to museums and
galleries. Everyone will be involved in learning to retell a story as well as developing their own tale to take back to school.

Jenny Oldfield

Jenny Oldfield is the author of over 50 children’s books, they include those in the Home Farm Twins series, the Half Moon Ranch series, a new series called Wild Horses and the Definitely Daisy series, which are illustrated by the award winning illustrator Lauren Child.

Jenny was born and brought up in Harrogate, Yorkshire, she says that even as a child she wrote stories and made tiny books, complete with illustrations. At school her favourite subjects were English, although she preferred creative writing to comprehension, and Art.

Jenny went on to study English at Birmingham University, where she did research on the Bronte novels and on children’s literature. She has worked in a food shop, delivered newspapers, been an auxiliary nurse in a children’s hospital, cleaned houses and taught English in schools, colleges, and a men’s prison. She has also taught modern dance.

She writes novels for both children and adults and, when she can escape from her desk, likes to spend time outdoors. Jenny still lives in Yorkshire and says that she loves the countryside and enjoys walking, gardening, playing tennis, riding and travelling with her two daughters, Kate and Eve.

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks first children’s book, Martyn Pig, enjoyed rave reviews when it was released in 2002 and won the Branford Boase Award in 2003 as well as being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2002. His latest book, Kissing The Rain, has just been published Chicken House.

Jubilee Books: Take us back to the time before your first book, Martyn Pig, was published. What were you doing?
Kevin Brooks: I had been working in the customer service department for National Rail but packed that job in about 6 months before Martyn Pig was published.
I was still doing quite a lot of writing while I was working there though. I’d sent the manuscript for Martyn Pig to just about everyone and there was a few people that were interested but nothing concrete.

I’d actually already started on my next book and came across Chicken House Publishing in a magazine and thought I’d send them the first chapter. Barry (Cunningham), who runs Chicken House, called me the next day and asked to have a look at the rest of the book. When he finished it he rang me again and said that he’d like to offer me something.
I’d only really been concentrating on writing full length novels for a few years but had got used to being rejected because I’d spent quite a long time in the music business. It was kind of relief and excitement when I made that breakthrough.

Both Martyn Pig and your second book Lucas have been pretty well received and you also won the Branford Boase award. Have you been surprised by the how well received your books have been?
It’s quite strange, it’s all happened in quite a short time. When things started going OK it wasn’t a huge surprise because I didn’t know what else to expect. I realize now though that it’s gone pretty well in a short space of time. As for the prizes, it’s nice to get involved in the awards when schools and kids are involved and to meet people in the same industry.

You mentioned that you’d been a musician in a previous question. Had you tried other types of writing, like poetry for example, and how did you end up becoming a children’s writer?
I’d always written in some form, little poems and things, but it wasn’t an ambition to write for teenagers. When I started writing seriously I concentrated on writing novels for adults and teenagers to try and find out what I was good at or what came naturally. It took a while and when I came to Martyn Pig I didn’t approach it as a book for teenagers, I just wanted to write a book about a teenage boy.

I found I preferred writing for that age group and it felt very natural to me. I found that when I was writing for adults I tended to lapse into pretentiousness a bit, whereas when I was writing for younger people it made me concentrate on writing the story rather than rambling or digressing or trying to write cleverly. I think that helped my writing and the more I did it the more I realized it suited me. I feel pretty much that kind of age anyway.

Are you particularly conscious of your readership?
Not really when I’m writing. I suppose if there’s a reader in mind it’s myself, I feel pretty much the same as when I was 15 anyway so I don’t have to imagine what it’s like to be that age. I also don’t much like the idea of writing for a particular market so I just write stuff that feels Ok to me and hope it strikes a chord with the readers and so far the feedback has been good.

Your latest book, Kissing the Rain, has a very strong lead character, Moo, and a very tense plot. I was wondering which of these came first or if they were developed together?
They kind of evolved together really. Before I start writing I tend to think about ideas for quite a long time and with that book it started with a very basic idea of a character with a dilemma, it was as simple as that. I wanted to put them in a situation where they had a choice of doing one of two things to resolve a conflict and they couldn’t choose either of those things. I then began building up this character and I did actually see a boy standing on a bridge at one point and thought that would be a good idea. He wasn’t anything like Moo but I started thinking about this boy and developing this character in my mind.
From then it was just a case of putting that into some kind of story. I read quite a lot of crime fiction and I like the way crime situations can stir things up and put characters in situations that give them conflict that they have to resolve. So the two ideas merged together over a period of time.

Tell me a bit about Moo’s narrative?
When I was thinking about the character I wanted him to be not particularly articulate and not very good at expressing his feelings but having those feelings. I wanted him to have trouble articulating his feelings in a conventional way.
I’ve been reading lots of letters and emails I get from kids and I was reading a lot of web logs about kids with weight problems and I found out that when a lot of them write about themselves they’re not particularly terrific at articulating what they feel but it comes out quite powerfully. Through having trouble trying to do that you sometimes get these very powerful emotions coming out.

You mentioned that you read a lot of crime novels, did you do other research into legal and courtroom procedures?
I did actually, I don’t generally do a lot of research but if I’m not sure about something I do try and research it. I really had to find out how witnesses work and legal procedures. I found on the Internet some lawyers and barristers to make sure I got it correct as possible.

To what extent do you plot your books?
I don’t plan them in detail but I do plan how it starts and how it ends, all the key details along the way. I’ve usually got a page or two page plan of the story and where it goes. As I start writing things do evolve and change slightly but it’s nice to have that framework to come back to. For me it makes it easier to write, you’ve got that sketch, that framework of key points. It also makes it less daunting than starting at page one and having a whole book to write in front of you, instead of looking to the end you’re looking to the next key point.

Where and when do you usually write?
When I’m actually writing a book I try to do a full days work so usually between six and eight hours a day actually writing. I like to do as much as possible because it means that I totally immerse myself in the story and am living it all the time and so when I’m not writing I’m still thinking about it. I usually do three or four hours in the afternoon and then the same in the evening.

What writers have influenced your writing?
I’ve always read lots of different things and I think everything has an influence to some extent. I like crime writing, lots of American stuff, I started off reading Raymond Chandler and I still read a lot of American stuff like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Denis Lehane and people like that.

In my early years J. D. Salinger was always a big favourite, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Jack London but then I also like reading a lot of non fiction stuff and I really like westerns.
I think you can get different things out of all sorts of different books and I think because I spent so long reading all kinds of different things I think that has really helped. When Martyn Pig came out, for example, there were some reviews mentioning that it was well plotted and structured and that was a surprise because I wasn’t aware I had done that, but when I think you read and read all the time you somehow soak up how to plot stuff without realizing it, it’s a very subconscious thing.

Do you read much other teen fiction?
I don’t read huge amounts although I read more now because I’m involved in it more and am meeting people and learning more about it all. Because I won the Branford Boase award last year I’m judging this years competition so I’ve got piles of books to read for that. When I’m working on books I try not to read much teen fiction.

A writer I really like at the moment is Jack Gantos, I met him last year in America at a conference and he was very nice to me and gave me some of his Joey Pigza books. I met him again when he came to London and he gave me his book Desire Lines which is one of his recent ones and I think he’s a fantastic writer.

You mentioned visiting America, was that book related?
I’m published by Scholastic in America so they arranged it. I met some people at Scholastic and some booksellers in New York and then went to a young adult writing conference where I did a few workshops and speeches.

And how are your books doing there?
Quite well actually. Chicken House have a deal with Scholastic in America to publish their books there so I was automatically published there. I just assumed that is what happened to everyone but I now realize a lot of British teenage writers don’t do particularly well in America or aren’t even published there. I also get quite a lot of emails from kids there.

What are you working on at the moment?
I’m working on a screenplay for Martyn Pig at the moment. Some young filmmakers have got an option to make the film and I met them and they asked me to write the screenplay for it. I’ve just done a story for Barrington Stoke and have finished a fourth book for Chicken House which is being edited at the moment.

Author Mark Haddon

Children’s authors are well represented in the Author of the Year award with both Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson, recently named as the most borrowed author in British libraries, making it onto the shortlist.

Pullman is also on the shortlist for the Audiobook Award for the BBC adaptation of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is also shortlisted in the Book of the Year category with, amongst others, the David Beckham biography and Brick Lane by Monica Ali.

Children’s Book Award Shortlist

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
The English Roses by Madonna
Goodbye Mog by Judith Kerr
Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman
Shadowmancer by GP Taylor
The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler

The awards will be announced live on Channel 4 on 7 April.