Pick-me-up Poetry

Years 7 - 8

One-off Workshop

Drawing inspiration from contemporary poet Courtney Peppernell, students will have space to consider their own wellbeing and share their personal recommendations for self care through succinct and reflective poetry. 

This workshop offers a chance to slow down and reflect on what self care really means. Students will craft and share a list poem, using language and layout to create a simple yet striking piece that they can then prepare to showcase to the world.

• Australian Curriculum Outcomes

  Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E7LE01)

  Discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (AC9E7LE04)

  Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E7LY06)

• NSW Syllabus Outcomes

  Analyses how meaning is created through the use of and response to language forms, features and structures (EN4-URA-01)

• Sample Student Writing

Available in Semester 1, 2026.