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Following-on from last year’s success at Engayne Primary School, Havering LA and London Grid for Learning (LGfL) are inviting schools across the UK to participate in a unique event to celebrate National Poetry Day (October 8th 2009) hosted via video-conferencing and live over the Internet.
Poet and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen, together with John Hegley and Paul Cookson, will be the star poets at the one-day “All about Europe” event celebrating National Poetry Day that organisers say, “will allow children to have the opportunity through technology, to meet role-models and participate in developing skills in poetry writing, listening and speaking”.
Schools can join the celebrations on October 8th 2009 by watching the real-time video stream throughout the conference on any broadband PC.
As judges for “All about Europe”, which is being hosted at Crownfield Junior School in Essex, the celebrity poets will need to be prepared. Pupils are planning to put them on the spot with questions about their work and life with responses to be broadcast internationally on the day. And with live presentations from participating schools, both in the UK and abroad, they’ll have to work hard at perfecting their own performances which are expected to include poetry readings.
