Hannah Frank News March 2010: 4 weeks to get your poetry entry in, and free packs for schools and youth groups
Fiona Frank (Hannah Frank Art)
HANNAH FRANK NEWS FEBRUARY 2010
FREE HANNAH FRANK PACKS FOR SCOTTISH SCHOOLS
A number of Scottish schools have already claimed their free Hannah Frank packs, worth over £50 each, to help inspire school groups to enter the Hannah Frank Poetry Competition.
The pack comprises copies of two Hannah Frank art books and a Hannah Frank biographical DVD. One of the books, ‘Hannah Frank, Footsteps on the Sands of Time, a 100th Birthday Gallimaufry’ was produced with the support of the Scottish Arts Council, and the DVD, ‘Hannah Frank - The Spark Divine’, was produced with support from the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Boston, USA.
Are you connected with a school or youth group? We have around 30 more FREE PACKS still to claim, and you have four weeks left to get your school or youth group entry or your adult poetry entry – in to the competition. Email hannahf...@googlemail.com with your school or youth group address and if you’re in time, I’ll get your pack off to you.
Your beautiful pack has just arrived - it far exceeded anything I was expecting.
Margaret Vaughan, Braidburn Special School, Edinburgh
We were absolutely delighted to receive such a lovely parcel last Friday. The teaching resources are very helpful but the book is wonderful and will tell us so much about Hannah Frank and her work. All members of staff send you a big thank you, and you can be sure that the pupils at Linnvale Primary will be inspired to write their very best poetry!
Lucille Wright, Principal Teacher, Linnvale Primary School, Dunbartonshire.
I
just wanted to say thank you very much for the resources you
sent on. I look forward to exploring Hannah Frank’s wonderful work
with my class.
Emma Finlay, Blackfriars Primary, Glasgow.
I
received my free teaching pack today - it is fantastic! I look forward to using
the resources with my colleagues and pupils.
Thank you very much.
Elaine Sullivan, Rothesay
Academy Argyll and Bute.
Many
thanks for the teaching pack - it really is fascinating.
Claire Hancox, Boclair Academy,
Bearsden
STILL TIME TO ENTER
The deadline is midnight on 31 March 2010. Full details and entry forms are on the website www.hannahfrank.org.uk . PLEASE PLEASE pass this on to your poet friends, your teacher friends, and your home-educating parent friends! There’s a poster on the website too to download.
CHILDREN’S LAUREATE LENDS SUPPORT
The Children’s Laureate, Anthony Browne, has lent his support to our competition too:
The poetry competition is a wonderful way to both celebrate Hannah Frank’s astonishing work, and encourage people to look at drawing and images in a new light. As Children’s Laureate, I am very keen that we encourage young people to learn how to look at drawings and illustration; in fact, to encourage everybody to value the act of looking. Looking is just as important as words and this competition shows the value of both.
Our thanks to Anthony Browne and The Book Trust.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
We were touched to hear that children at Pollokshields Primary School, Glasgow, read out the Hannah Frank-related poems they had written for our launch last year, at a special assembly last month. The assembly was on the themes of Holocaust Remembrance and also the poetry of Robbie Burns. I had presented the school with a framed Hannah Frank print to thank them for taking part in our poetry competition launch last year and the head teacher brought that to the assembly. (I had also presented Calderwood Lodge Jewish Primary School with a framed print as children from that school also took part in our launch, reading out poems they’d written.)
PRIZE GIVING
We hope to have the prize giving for the Poetry Competition at a very special venue in Glasgow on the day which would have been my late aunt’s 102nd birthday: 23rd August 2010. Put the date in your diary: it should be a very moving event.
PRINTS, CARDS AND SCULPTURE
You can still buy prints, cards and sculpture from the Hannah Frank website http://www.hannahfrank.org.uk . Get in touch if you have any queries about this (or if you’d like to come off this list). We don’t have any exhibitions coming up (except for a small exhibition of signed prints at the Gregson Community Centre, Lancaster, in December 2010) but Hannah Frank prints are always on show at Damselfly and the Queen Bee, Kelvinbridge, Great Western Road, Glasgow – and at the Women’s Library, Parnie Street, Glasgow.
Best wishes
Fiona Frank
Niece of the late Hannah Frank
3 Dalton Road Lancaster LA1 3PR