Tag: School & Library Visits
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,…
How to draw a Washing Machine
I’ve been working with Year 2 (mostly 7 year olds) writing a story about Laser Bunny and Snip-Snap Wolf – see the story here : Last week we were drawing the washing machine in the story. The children’s drawing were so gorgeous, I thought I’d both share them with you and also show you how to…
My memories of Dunblane
Twenty years ago this morning Sandra Reid, then the Children’s Librarian in Stirling, picked me up from my hotel and took me to my first library visit that day. We drove through Dunblane. I remember Sandra saying that we wouldn’t normally go that way but there was traffic on the main road. She said that…