{"id":1,"date":"2021-11-26T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/bhpoetry\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:33:02","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/bhpoetry\/2021\/11\/26\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 5 Black Hole Poetry Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first year 5 Black Hole Poetry was a held at Ludlow Junior School in Southampton in October 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sadie Jones and Astronomy PhD student Madeline-Mai Ward ran the workshop for the whole of the year 5 in the school hall. Both Sadie and Maddie are Black Hole experts so the year 5 students were definitely in good hands, even though this was the first time the black hole found poetry session had ever been run with actual students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first workshop was also a bit of a baptism of fire firstly because it was the first in-person workshop Sadie had been able to run in 2021 ‘cos of that whole pandemic thing and then secondly, Sadie had initially planned for the workshop to be with a single class of 30 students, so for the teachers to trust that it would work with the whole of year 5 (over 100 enthusiastic 5 children) on the first ‘outing’ was very brave of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the students really seemed to embrace the idea of making found poetry from text about black holes after listening to a short presentation on what black holes are and why the University of Southampton researches them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A selection of Found Poems the children made in the the first workshop are shown below (to see more examples go to the Found Poems<\/a> page).<\/p>\n\n\n\n