Tag: School & Library Visits

  • St Peter's Waterlooville

    I visited St Peter’s School in Waterlooville near Portsmouth on Monday and had a wonderful day. The years one and two went off after my session and drew fantastically scary drawings of Pumpkin Men and Bogey Men after they had helped me invent a story about the Mushroom Man who pops out of horse pooh…

  • AND – is not a connecting word!

    So often, when reading children’s writing, I come across the word, and. When I challenge the children about it, they tell me it’s a connecting word. Well, I say it’s an adding word. It adds sentences together, like a sticky, gunky goo, making them grow longer and longer, and windier and windier. What’s wrong with…

  • LLwyn-y-pia – Rhonda Valley

    What a grey and wet old day to go visiting Llwyn-y-pia Primary School, a vast victorian barn clinging to the side of the Rhonda Valley. I had a lot of fun and we came up with some great ideas for stories, including a Snake Man who has to be controlled by a specially adapted digger,…