Category: School & Library Visits

  • Woolas and Lydnya – A very sad love story

    This is the true story of how the Forest of Dean came to be https://vimeo.com/402477114/535d4f7c1a This is a desperately sad love story that I wrote with the children of Woolaston and Lydney Severnbanks schools back in 2007. you can get a copy here:  It was part of a European Comenius project to create fairy tales…

  • ImaginOtice and the Welsh Lead Creative Schools

    https://youtu.be/vnrIHC-iH8Y I’ve been working with Years 2, 4 and 5 at the Archbishop Rowan Williams School in Portskewitt, In South Wales this and last term on what we called The ImaginOtice Project. Inspiring the imagination from noticing things with the aim of improving literacy. I suppose I should have been blogging about it as I went along,…

  • NewSpeak – English is no longer for the English

    Frightening things are going on in English primary schools. Never mind the destructive stress-testing of both teachers and pupils, a new, sinister hand is upon the education tiller. Our glorious language is under threat from the Department of Education who are devising new forms of grammar and determining that their new rules are right and anything else is wrong. Pass or fail. Primary school children…