MOTHER TONGUE, OTHER TONGUE

Our LGGS finalists enjoyed multilingual poetry workshops from up and coming writers at the Manchester Poetry Library. The overall winners were awarded prizes by Malika Booker, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Malika has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for best first full collection published in the UK and Ireland and was also the inaugural Poet In Residence at the RSC. Malika’s work is included in the OCR GCSE English Literature syllabus!

Thirty seven schools from the North West submitted poems in 47 languages! With over 1000 entries, we were

Liverpool Museum Ins

As someone who is passionate about history but unsure what historical career to go into, the opportunity to attend a virtual insight day was very helpful as it gave me an understanding of the various roles within a museum and the responsibilities and characteristics each one requires. We heard from various employees, including Adam who ran the event. He explained how museums build community and help everyone learn in a fun, engaging and interactive way. As a learning facilitator he requires good communication, event planning and technology skills.

Ben, who works in the living centre, looks after the insects, fish and various other animals in the museum’s aquarium and bug house. I never considered that a museum could have living exhibits.

Iris, is a curator with ‘Curating for Change’, which is an organisation that helps deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people enter curating careers. Her aim is to make museums more accessible for anyone with any form of disability. She showed us what needs to be considered when designing and preparing an exhibition, to make sure that it is accessible.

Neve, an events sales executive, has organised both public and private events. She presented to them. Our winning students were:

Lojain Gengehy (Year 9, Arabic), Parnika Ganguli (Year 10, Bengali), Ellie O’Hare (Year 11, told us that she was once given a £10,000 budget just for flowers! She said that to be an events sales executive you need good financial management and budgeting skills as well as business knowledge.

Finally, we heard from John-Paul, who is an intern. John-Paul did some myth-busting regarding working at a museum. He emphasised the fact that you don’t need a degree to work at a museum. People come to work at the museum with varying levels and types of qualifications, but he said that it was this diversity that made the team so strong.

Honey Gott, Year 11.