Blackberry-Picking

Overview

This interactive, sensory workshop introduces the language of poetry through storytelling. Children immerse themselves in the poem by exploring blackberry bushes in our Sensory Garden, before writing and painting with blackberry ink. The workshop finishes with a delicious snack of scones and pancakes topped with homemade blackberry jam.

Learning Objectives:

During this workshop children will:

• hear stories of the people and places which inspired Seamus Heaney during a ‘mini tour’ of our exhibition.
• discuss poetic techniques and emotions found in the poem or adapted story
• investigate the lifecycle of blackberries
• experiment with a variety of media and tools to produce artwork

The Blackberry-Picking workshop enables children to:

• present ideas and information with some structure and sequence
• use a range of comprehension skills, both oral and written, to interpret and discuss texts
• express their own and interpret others’ feelings and emotions
• experiment with a range of media, materials, tools and processes
• justify their responses logically, by inference, deduction and/or reference to evidence within the text
• consider how living things survive
• develop their management of a range of feelings and emotions and the feelings and emotions of others
• experiment with a range of media, materials, tools and processes

Please refer to our Teacher Guide for information on our cancellation policy.