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	New Heys Writing Project Curtis Watt and Susan Phillips from the Windows Writing Project are running a creative writing course with a group of pupils at New Heys Community College. The aim of the sessions is to create a publication featuring poems, stories and writing extracts from the course. Mentoring Project Gateacre Community Comprehensive and Prenton High School for Girls are taking part in reading groups based around Refugee Boy. In the new year, pupils will take the book to their feeder schools to mentor younger pupils and create stories, poems and songs around the book. Also in the new year, Belvedere GDST and St Benedict’s College will take part in this project. Sola Arts New Artists Project Sola Arts alongside 3 refugee artists from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tibet worked with groups of young people around Liverpool to produce creative responses to Refugee Boy. These groups were: Clubmoor Youth Centre, Walton Project Post, the Al-ghazali Centre and Blackmoor Park Junior School. Writers in Liverpool Libraries Creative writers Curtis Watt and Patrick Graham from the Windows Project visited school children in libraries around Liverpool. They read extracts of Refugee Boy together then wrote poems about what it would be like to be put in Alem's position. I Was Scared I was scared, I was shy All I did was sit and cry I couldn’t sleep, I counted sheep I heard some cars go beep beep beep I saw a tank by the river bank People giving things, saying thanks I saw war People are poor and hate doing more and more I miss my mum and dad It really makes me very mad I see birds flying by People in aeroplanes in the sky It’s nearly night, it is a fright I feel stressed out and very tight Karly I am a Refugee I am a refugee I got taken away from my home My mum is dead My dad got shot And I am all alone I’ve lost my family I’ve lost my friends I’ve lost my pet dog And I’ll never see them again I live with strangers I miss my home I wish these people Would leave me alone I’ve settled in And got new friends It feels like I am alive again Danielle and Chanceline Other projects – for other current and future school projects, teachers’ packs, and workshops, please contact Bea Colley - 0151 794 2291 / b.colley@liverpool.ac.uk

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