Last week I visited the Hereford Cathedral Choir School and spent the afternoon with Year 3 – who are mostly 8 years old – showing them how I come up with ideas for stories and characters.

I devised two character’s based on a couple of children who kindly posed for me in their school uniforms. I showed the children how to draw them and you can see their fabulous drawings on the video.

The story we thought up required the children to think of something near at hand they could use to reflect laser beams back at invading monsters! Amazingly, through a door in the hall we were working in, was a smaller room, used for ballet lessons! There was a mirror, Just the perfect size! I love it when things come together like that!