From Response to Creation: Engaging with Poetry for Junior Cycle (PP)

From Response to Creation: Engaging with Poetry for Junior Cycle (PP)

DATE:    Tuesday, 20th January 2026 
TIME:     7pm - 8pm
VENUE: Online Via Zoom

Target Audience: Junior Cycle English Teachers

This one-hour webinar is a repeat of a popular session held last year, designed to support teachers in fostering deeper student engagement with poetry at Junior Cycle level. The session will explore a range of practical and creative strategies to help students move beyond surface-level responses and develop a more critical, personal, and confident approach to reading and interpreting poetry.

Bio of Presenter: Selena Wilkes



Selena has been a teacher since 1989. She was an SEC examiner and advising examiner in Higher Level English for twenty four years and an advisor in English and literacy with PDST for three years. She currently teaches English, Geography and Chinese in New Cross College, Finglas, Dublin, and lectures in The School of Education PME programme in UCD. Her hobbies include scuba-diving and boring people with photographs of her dogs.