All students took part in the ABC poetry exercise in which each letter of the alphabet is the start of the next word. Click here to see

Workshops were held over three days prior to the Grand Slam.

After fast fire questions in which the students sat in a circle, performance techniques were used to get the young people moving. Here the groups were asked to be a clock.

Working on the poems.

Be a band!

Setting the brief for the slam

The performance heats

Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury who ran the workshops

The judges