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Jan 2022
Children's poetry focuses on poverty at Ripon Workhouse
Fifty-two year 6 pupils from Holy Trinity Junior School in Ripon have used their lockdown experiences to empathise with how Victorian children might have felt as inmates at Ripon Workhouse.
The children have been working towards their Bronze Arts Awards with staff at Ripon Museums, poet and Ripon Poetry Festival founder Andy Croft and animator Dawn Feather.
They encouraged the pupils to imagine themselves in the shoes of poor and desperate Victorian children entering the workhouse.
They wrote poems under the titles Dread, Fear, Grief and Nothing. They recorded the poems as spoken word with sound effects and made their own chalk drawing animations that were presented as powerful audio-visual pieces.
Carrie Philip, Ripon Museum’s learning and outreach manager, said:
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Pupils were awarded their Bronze Arts Award with feedback praising their excellent animated spoken poetry. The experience went beyond the immediate task at hand and will hopefully inspire the group to explore other creative endeavours.
Holy Trinity headteacher Paul Bowlas said:
The animated poems can be accessed through Ripon Museums website www.riponmuseums.co.uk
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