Jabberwocky Project at Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School

Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School is a Creative Partnerships school in Rotherham. The school will be working with Opera North, Phoenix Dance, visual artist Terry Chipp, writer Caroline Small and film maker Lorraine Butler on a cross-artform project themed around the Lewis Carroll poem 'Jabberwocky'.

This is the poem:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

The school and the creative partners will work in partnership towards a set of shared aims, which are focussed on:

developing and improving children’s writing (poetry, descriptive writing, narrative writing, being reflective as writers, using writing to frame their thoughts)

exploring the environment using the Jabberwocky picture as a stimulus

improving children’s reading to

and to give them a powerful motivation for learning across the school curriculum.