Wednesday 6th July | 10.30 - 12.30pm: Creative Writing Workshop with Michael Rosen & Historyworks

Historyworks has been working with several primary schools for creative workshops and has led history field trips encouraging children and their teachers and families to be walking their areas to discover important local history between their school gates and the river and the centre of town. The Michael Rosen event will offer participating Year 5/Year 6 Primary School children and their teachers the opportunity to be inspired by the history beneath their feet through Michael Rosen’s poems about local Cambridge history, including fantastic new poetry commissioned by Historyworks about our River Cam, Isaac Newton & Gravity, the Lions of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Coldham’s Common & the extraordinary Victorian story of mining Dinosaur Poo!

This Historyworks event will include the children learning more about body percussion to help them with rhythm and rhyme and the new songs about Cambridge local history co-written by CBBC’s Horrible Histories Song Writers and the Historyworks team. Importantly, the children will co-create a poem together with Michael Rosen on the subject of ‘My Cambridge’. Also, children will be given an opportunity on this day and afterwards to record their co-created works. They will showcase their own pieces of poetry and share artwork they have created inspired by the amazing stories of Cambridge’s history and to have feedback from Michael Rosen alongside Helen Weinstein and the Historyworks team.

For more information visit: www.creatingmycambridge.com
To request to be involved in this project contact Helen Weinstein: historyworkstv@gmail.com
For a map of the entrances please visit: www.cus.org/about/where-find-us