After a very successful spring term of workshops, where MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland) Zoomed into classrooms all over the country from Bere Island, Co. Cork to Glenties, Co. Donegal, the MoLI team is excited to meet more students online and share their museum this autumn!
MoLI in the Classroom in partnership with AerCap will once more offer an online, free-to-access creative club for schools across Ireland for the coming academic year offering an interactive 40-50 minute online workshop for 3rd - 6th class primary school students delivered in-class through Zoom to schools across the country, facilitated by the museum’s learning team.
“Feedback from both teachers and students has been exceptional and we are already almost booked out for September but still have some slots available so would urge all to visit the website and secure a session with MoLI’s enthusiastic learning facilitators,” said Simon O’Connor, Director MoLI.”
In the autumn programme of online workshops, students will see and hear all about the museum through special behind-the-scenes videos, while being encouraged to explore their own creativity through a range of word and drama games and creative writing exercises.
Students will explore and share language whilst having fun learning and playing with words and stories, igniting their own creativity in the process. Crucially, the workshops have been designed to support arts educational strands within the primary curriculum and have been developed with different learning styles in mind.
Teachers will not need to cover any topics in advance and can book online with MoLI’s live calendar at moli.ie/moli-in-the-classroom/. Students can also continue their creative journey after the online session ends with MoLI’s engaging follow-on resources, also giving them an opportunity to win a visit from a writer to their school and an iPad for themselves!
Some feedback from teachers on MoLI in the classroom:
"The workshop was inspirational for the children. Some will go away with a new way of approaching their writing."
"The children loved the exercises and having a space to share their writing. It was also great to encourage them to find inspiration in the ordinary things that related to their experiences."
"Raised awareness for the children about the many different ways they can express themselves, not just through words."
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