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The word is on the street about Streetspeak…
Posted on: September 22nd, 2009
Our second visitor in June 2009, Irfan Master, Manager of Reading the Game, National Literacy Trust, visited a Groundwork session on 19th June 2009.
Irfan watched Craig and young people from Groundwork invent their own poems… here’s one of them:
Pele
I saw Pele
On the telly
He looked really cool to me
He was quick
On the ball
He wasn’t very tall
He was a kid on the street
With no shoes on his feet
Playing football with some bags
Dressed in old torn rags
But he had passion in his heart
He was a living Work of Art
He could fly like a dart
He was a goal scoring machine
The best on the screen
But, Pele, for all your fame
We don’t even know your name!
After watching the Streetspeak session, Irfan said, ‘It was a more informal style of learning, and there was lots of learning going on and for young people that’s the best environment. They will go away with enhanced vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and they’ve been told they’ve done well. It will be a lasting memory. I’d have been quite chuffed to have been picked to take part – that’s a big deal. Poetry is a form of expression, and we can all be poets by default as soon as we can speak.’
