Greenfield Community College are very proud to be working with performance poet Kate Fox this term to explore ways to develop literacy and communication. Kate has performed many times on radio 4, TV shows including daily politics, the Edinburgh Festival and is also the Great North Run poet in residence.
Kate worked with us on a national project last year and has asked to come back to Greenfield again! Kate recently delivered a staff training session to all Greenfield Staff that was humorous, intelligent and engaging, it gave us all a great flavour of how powerful the techniques used in performance poetry can be. Kate will be working with the English Department at Greenfield and all of our year 8 students to develop a performance poetry project called “slam it!”. The project will culminate in an exciting live slam event.
Kate and colleague and professional performance poet, Jeff Price, are also working at Chilton Community Primary school this term and running a performance poetry project with key stage 2.
We are looking forward to coming together to share the amazing poetry that will be created and the brilliant performances at the slam events.
