Join us for a live online poetry and spoken word session celebrating belonging and identity.
Liverpool Learning Partnership has commissioned spoken word artist and performer Danielle McLauren to create a brand-new poem inspired by this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme, “This Is My Place.” Danielle will perform the poem for pupils and following the performance, and then will guide pupils through a series of fun, accessible writing activities to help them create their own poems about belonging.
The session supports pupils to:
- Explore feelings of belonging in a creative way
- Express themselves through words and performance
- Build confidence in writing and sharing ideas
- Connect with Children’s Mental Health Week themes through the arts
Suitable for: KS2
Format: Live online session
This session is available to all Liverpool schools as it is part of our Integrated Care Board funded work.
About Danielle: Danielle McLauren (she/her) aka The Half Pint Poet, is a Liverpool-based poet, spoken-word and theatre-maker. Her highlights as a poet include being a featured spoken word artist at Shakespeare North’s Scratch night, and having her poem Stranger in Lark Lane published in Bent Key Publishing’s second Ey Up! Anthology. She also ran a series of poetry workshops for children and adults at the Queens of Art Festival in 2022, as well as having a poem commissioned by Altru Drama for antibullying week. The poem, I’ve Got This Sick Feeling In My Belly, was then performed in primary schools across the country. She is also currently writing her autobiographical one-woman-show, for which she received a Seed Commission from the Liverpool Everyman New Works Department, and has a collection of poetry to accompany the play, which she hopes to publish alongside the production.
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