As part of our Literature for Health and Wellbeing project partly funded by Cyngor Gwynedd, Literature Wales organised that Anni Llŷn, the Bardd Plant Cymru at the time (Children’s Poet Laureate) went to visit Ysgol Hafod Lon School in Penrhyndeudraeth over a period of six weeks. Ysgol Hafod Lon is a daily school for pupils with a range of additional needs, and has recently relocated into a beautiful new school. Nine young people and three members of staff took part in this exciting project during November and December 2016. The group wrote poetry on “Me, Myself”, examining their emotions and feelings in workshops led by Anni. Morfudd Hughes, a practitioner specialising in movement and self-expression joined in a few workshops, helping to develop skills by playing fancy dress games to imagine how different people would define themselves.
The young people came to Tŷ Newydd for a party to celebrate the end of a great project, where the entertainer Dewi Pws came to sing songs, tell jokes and read a few poems.