Cosmic Cluster Camp

Last week 5 students attended the Cosmic Cluster Camp. This is a camp hosted by Lutheran schools in the region to provide further learning experiences for children. There are a range of subjects or "cores" that the children can participate in. Through the week we hope to share some of the experiences the children had of the camp. Here is the first review:

Cosmic cluster camp was a great experience for me and my peers. Our core groups taught us a lot of new skills and it was great to meet other people that have the same interest.

The core groups were – Forensic science, Creative writing, 2D Art, Drama, Medieval Histories and Digital Storytelling.

It was great because each core got to experience something they wouldn’t normally be able to do at school.
My core was Creative Writing, in my group I got to learn about all different types of poetry and learn how to write more advanced narratives using the scenery around us. Some of the poetry I learnt was:

Book Spine Poetry:  It’s a kind of poetry that you don’t really write from scratch – instead, you “find” it by arranging book titles to make a poem. This type of poem can be serious or funny, just like in regular poetry. To make a book spine poem, you would start by moving these books around into stacks with the spines together so that the titles are like the lines of a poem. You would keep moving the book titles around into different stacks until you find the “lines” that go best together to make a poem.

Black-Out Poetry: Also known as newspaper blackout poetry, the author uses a permanent marker to cross out or eliminate whatever words or images he sees as unnecessary or irrelevant to the effect he's seeking to create. The central idea is to devise a completely new text from previously published words and images, which the reader is free to interpret as he wishes.

Thumb Print Poetry: Thumb Print Poetry is a type of descriptive story/poem about yourself or things that you like. You start but taking your thumb print and enlarging it with a printer. You then trace around the lines of your thumb on a separate piece of paper and write about yourself on the lines creating an amazing affect.

Over all this camp was a great opportunity for everyone there and it was not only a way to improve your knowledge but it was an awesome was to meet new people and make some new friends. The staff and students are very enthusiastic about their core groups and are extremely nice people. I would definitely go again. 

Bianca .S