Educator CPD Opportunity – Creative Writing with Authors Abroad
Development oppurtunity for KS2 and KS3 educators to develop creative writing teaching skills.
- Date: Friday 27 June 2025
- Venue: InCommunities, The Quays, Victoria Street, Shipley, BD17 7BN
- Timings: 9am-3pm
This full day CPD, led by Andy Craven-Griffiths, supports Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 educators to develop their practice in teaching creative writing.
You will join in with and try out various exercises to practice the craft that make all creative writing outcomes better. You will learn the secret to rhyming with anything, ways to create original metaphors, and how to make stories satisfying (no more, ‘then they woke up and it was all a dream’). Plus take away some exercises and games you can use with your own learners.
There is a maximum of 50 spaces on this opportunity. Please see below the running schedule of the day.
Andy Craven-Griffiths
Andy Craven-Griffiths has performed across the UK and abroad. He has had poetry broadcast on Radio 1, Radio 4, and BBC 2 television, and been published in various poetry journals. He has written commissions for the BBC, Arts Council, Rethink mental Health charity and the NHS. His debut play, Joygernaut, toured nationally in 2019-2020. In 2023, Andy completed his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. He is currently writing a poetry collection and a TV series.
Andy has run more than a thousand poetry workshops at hundreds of schools across the UK and internationally. He has delivered workshops for The British Council, the NHS, Oxford University Press, Arvon, The Southbank Centre, Leeds Playhouse, and Bradford 2025 amongst others, and published a chapter on teaching rhyme in Making Poetry Happen (Bloomsbury, 2015). He currently teaches at Leeds Arts University and in various schools.