I had a great day, my sore throat not withstanding, at Stockingford Infants, who wanted to do some writing! I worked with three year one classes – I know, that’s a big infants school!

The children chose an animal and we got to work building up stories about them. In the first we had a “Mr Motivator” Giraffe, that wanted everyone to bend and stretch. But all the other animals got bored and went away, so it was only the Giraffe that ended up stretched.

In the second class we had a swimming tiger who met his match at sea when he encountered a shark. I’ve thought about this since and would like to ditch the tiger and make it a tiger fish, if there is a such a thing. It would make the story more logical – but hey, that’s how the process goes.

Our third class went off at a tangent! We wanted to write about Guinea Pigs, but there’s not a lot to write about Guinea Pigs – I know, I’ve tried to do it before. We ended up with a wonderful love story that made everyone go Ah! Even the boys liked it! I’m still not sure about the Guinea Pigs, but they are cute, aren’t they? Maybe if I just tinkered about with the plot a bit…