DATE:      WEDNESDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER 2026
TIME:       7.00PM - 8.00PM
VENUE:   ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Target Audience: Junior Cycle English Teachers

Learning Outcomes:

• Planning for poetry; what to focus on and what to cut
• A plan to approach stimulus poems
• A plan to approach Exam Poems
• Writing analytically about poetry: exam answers
• Literacy Boost and poetry
• Learning to learn: poetry

Bio of Presenter: Clare Madden

Clare Madden is an English and History teacher from Cork. She is in the classroom for the last fifteen years and the author of the Junior cycle English textbook series “TouchStones”