Category: School & Library Visits

  • Pentre Primary School

    There are amazing views up high in the mountains above Treorchy as you come down the endless hill from the Heads of the Valleys road. The road is one long village leading into another. Pentre Primary is a vast Victorian school with a small roll. We had a lot of fun today – particularly KS1…

  • Cadoxton Primary School – Barry

    I had a wonderful day at Cadoxton Primary School in Barry, South Wales, today. It’s a vast towering, hulk of Victorian brick and stone outside but cosy and friendly and beautifully modernised inside. I’m visiting quite a few Schools in the Rhonda, Cynon Taf area for their Developing writing through oracy project, which I think…

  • St Margaret's Primary – Aberdare

    St Margaret’s Primary in Aberdare, South Wales, is quite a small school. I was pleased of this as I was quite tired by the end of this week of school visiting. Smaller group sizes means less projecting to a large audience, so today’s sessions were much more intimate. I was impressed by one writer in…