Just received feedback from my recent school visit to All Saints Benhilton in Surrey. So pleased they all enjoyed it.
Workshop and author talk
Feedback from teachers:
It
was fantastic; Debbie had the children completely engaged. We started
to read the first ‘Aggie Lichen’ book and the children are keen to
continue reading the rest of the series.
The workshop
made the children think about characters in a story and how to build
information about them so that they were a 3D creation. It inspired the
class to write.
The author talk helped the children to
understand the process of writing a book and the many stages that it
involved. The children heard how even published authors needed to edit
and re-write texts to improve them.
Feedback from children:
My teacher is reading the first book and I really like the story; I’ve bought the second book so that I can carry on reading.
The talk was good because I learnt all about getting a book published. We heard about ways to get ideas for writing.
She wasn’t boring but had lots of energy and I wanted to listen. It was good hearing an author read from their own book.
I
liked creating a character from the different objects. We had lots of
discussion in our group about what the character could be like. It was
hard to begin with but the more we talked about the objects the
character became more real.
