Another great day at Longlevens. The children weren’t quite so hyper today I think that’s because they were all dressed up as book characters.

I find group dynamics quite fascinating. I meet many groups of children in many different combinations. The children I saw today were essentially the same as the children I saw yesterday – but today, in their alter-identities, they were individuals whereas yesterday they were in uniform and so made up cohesive groups. A class of children in the same uniform work as one. A group of fairies, princesses, batmen, power rangers and Ben Tens want to be individuals.

As yesterday, they did some lovely drawings. As ever, it’s quite fascinating how a group of children draw the same picture but put so much of themselves into the same character. Some add pattern, some understand my instructions quite differently to how I show them and do the most amazing things. With a bit of detective work I get to see how they are interpreting the instructions.

Then there are the ones who say they can’t draw. What they mean is that theirs doesn’t look exactly like mine. Well, it never will, It will look different because we are all different. I think everyone can draw in the same way everyone can drive a car. But if you don’t actually do it and put the hours in, you will never get better or confident about it. So much in life is about putting in the hours.

There I go on again! I’m going on because I’m very tired at the end of a string of School and Library visits and need a nice lie in tomorrow.

Thanks for a great couple of days – and thanks for doing so much preparation, It made my visit really wonderful. Have a great Easter Holidays.