Tag: writing

  • How to draw a Black Cat

    To celebrate my current Kickstarter project to make a book of scary stories for children which is called  I’m going to show you how to draw a black cat. Some say they are lucky some say otherwise! follow these easy instructions and you too will be drawing a black cat – maybe for halloween or…

  • 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,…

  • NewSpeak – English is no longer for the English

    Frightening things are going on in English primary schools. Never mind the destructive stress-testing of both teachers and pupils, a new, sinister hand is upon the education tiller. Our glorious language is under threat from the Department of Education who are devising new forms of grammar and determining that their new rules are right and anything else is wrong. Pass or fail. Primary school children…