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We’re pleased to reveal that we’re running some special Rockhaq Workshops at Everybody’s Reading Festival 2018. A very big thanks to Paul and Elaine at Leicester City Libraries and Kim at Oadby Library for their support and time to help us run these upcoming writer’s workshops.
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We were invited to run our unique Music Journalism workshops at the Writing East Midlands Writer’s Den at the weekend. This year’s event took place at The University of Derby on Saturday 16 June. We chose the mighty Beyonce to inspire and guide the young writers taking part in the Writing East Midlands Writer’s Den. But we found that this team of 40 young writers were pretty much #flawless already.
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We’ve just finished our second Music Journalism workshop at Ashbourne Library in Derbyshire for the Writing East Midlands Young Writer’s Group. The first workshop took place on 6 February 2018 and catered for 8-11 year olds. Last night’s workshop was for 12-16 year olds and we saw just as much talent and hard work in the senior writer’s group. We even had a parent eager to join The Rockhaq Community at the end 😉
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We’ve just carried out a special Music Journalism workshop at Ashbourne Library for the Writing East Midlands Young Writer’s Group. We’re running two separate workshops for different age groups. The first of these took place last night (6 February 2018) and catered for Year 4 to Year 7 students, who were all 8-11 years old. Although this is the youngest group we’ve worked with yet, the writers simply blew us away with their talent and enthusiasm for music journalism.
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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been invited to run some special Writing East Midlands Young Writer’s Groups workshops in Derby during February 2018.
As part of these unique music journalism workshops, we will work with two separate Young Writer’s Groups at Ashbourne Library. The two groups consist of the Juniors Writing Squad, made up of school years 4-7, and the Seniors Writing Squad, made up of school years 8-11.
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Following news of our Rockhaq Academy programme with Nottinghamshire Music Hub, here’s an update on how our workshops and events are going so far. We’ve been working with Year 10 music students from Tuxford Academy in Newark and on Friday (December 1), we all met for a special live music journalism workshop at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall.
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We’re pleased to launch Rockhaq Academy with Nottinghamshire Music Hub over this academic year (2017-2018).
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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been invited to run all day workshops at Moat Community College’s first ever Literacy Festival. This takes place at Moat Community College in Leicester on Thursday 13 July 2017.
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We’re pleased to announce that we’re running teacher workshops at the Leicestershire Schools English Hub Conference. This takes place at Judgemeadow Community College on Saturday 13 May 2017.
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Christmas is over but the generosity and goodwill continues on the Rockhaq community with news of funded journalism workshops! We’ve had several meetings with the lovely people at Nottinghamshire Music Hub (now part of Inspire Nottinghamshire) recently and are very pleased to announce…
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