Kate Pankhurst’s Visit to ACE

On Wednesday, children in years 3, 4 and 5 were treated to an afternoon with author and illustrator, Kate Pankhurst in partnership with the Ilkley Literature Festival.


Kate spoke about her latest series of books Great Women focusing on Emmerline Pankhurst (yes, she is a distant relative!), Maria Sibylla Merian (beware bird eating spiders are mentioned) and Junko Tabei (mountaineer extraordinaire). 

The children joined in in a draw along with Kate drawing their very own Junko Tabei’s conquering Everest.  The children had a great afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed Kate’s visit. 

The children’s programme at Ilkley Literature Festival takes place this weekend,

visit www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org for more information. 

You also might like to visit Kate’s website to find out more about her and the books that she has written:

www.katepankhurst.com

Kate Pankhurst Visit

Don’t forget!

Don’t forget that Author and Illustrator, Kate Pankhurst will be visiting school on Wednesday 9th October as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival celebrations.

Children in years 3,4 and 5 will attend a special session where Kate will be talking about her new series of books and about her writing journey.

Books will be on sale following the event and Kate will happily sign them too.

Books will be priced at £6.99 each.

For more information about Kate Pankhurst you might like to visit her website: www.katepankhurst.com

For more information about Ilkley Literature Festival (they have a children’s programme), you might like to visit their website:

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

Tony Peek Visit

Today, Tony Peek visited school again. Back in September Tony spent the day working with Year 2 and this time it was Year 5.

Tony told tales, performed some of his poems and the children had the opportunity to ‘play’ with words and to create their own Haiku poems.

Tony reciting Poetry and sharing ideas for their poems

 

 

 

 

 

 Performing The Sloth Poem with Tony and working on their Haiku poems

 

 

 

 

 

In the afternoon a small group of children continued their creativity focusing on the theme of space and wrote some wonderful poems.

More Haiku poetry, rhyming poems and even a rap written by Ramtin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finished poems complete with illustrations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Signing Session

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Palmer Visit

Today author, Tom Palmer visited children in KS2.

Tom talked about his latest book Armistice Runner and ran two Football Reading Games much to the delight of the children who enjoyed the quiz and especially the penalty shoot out.

The winners of the penalty shoot out

A group of children from Year 5 and Year 6 then had the opportunity to participate in a writing workshop WWII based. The children came up with some amazing story ideas including a story about a German pilot who had crashed landed his plane and befriended an English pilot who had also crashed in occupied France and how they helped one another get back. home.

   

The Artefacts; A bible, A map of France and Germay printed on silk, playing cards with images of different planes (so that the pilots could learn which the enemy planes were) and a notebook which belonged to a prisoner in a prisoner camp of war and a pilot’s helmet.

The children then thought about ideas for their story…

Some children even tried on the pilot’s helmet to help them with their thinking.

       

Working together to develop their story ideas

  

If you would like to buy one of Tom’s books there is still time if you bring in the money either tomorrow or Thursday (books cost £6.00 each).

For more information about Tom Palmer and his books please click on the link below:

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Tom Palmer Visit – Tuesday 6th June

Yesterday, author Tom Palmer visited school, much to the delight of many children who enjoy reading his football and rugby themed stories.Tom lead an assembly for KS1 and KS2 children where he talked about being a writer and then the children had the opportunity to ask Tom lots and lots of questions.

Next, Tom spent the day with a group of sixteen Year 5 children on a local history project. This involved Tom working with nine schools each coming up with ideas, planning, helping to write and editing a chapter each. The finished story would consist of nine chapters and would be published on Tom’s website.

The children thoroughly enjoyed their day with Tom and were thrilled at the end of the afternoon to read their finished chapter which had been uploaded on Tom’s website.

The following children took part in producing the ACE chapter:

Aminah, Benjamin, Scarlett, Jasmine, Alex C, Alex O, Stella, Stefan, Zain, Ayush, Kristal, Chenai, Ben, Nishta, Charlie and Taiya.

To read their chapter click on the link below:

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Tom Palmer Visit

On Tuesday 6th June, author, Tom Palmer will be visiting school.

Tom has written a large number of books with football or rugby themes and more recently has written some with a historical theme.

Tom will be leading an assembly and then will be working with a group of year 5 children on a local history writing project with the finished article being published on his website.

After school a selection of his books will be on sale and Tom will happily sign them too.

Books will be priced either £5.40 or £6.30.

For more information please click on the poster below or look out for the posters advertising the event which will be displayed around school.

Chris Mould – Visit 2

This afternoon local author and illustrator, Chris Mould visited school. Children in KS2 were treated to Chris’ stories and drawings and Chris also talked about his new book (the first in a series) called Pocket Pirates.

If you didn’t bring any money with you and you wished that you had it is not too late!

See Miss Whiteley by Wednesday 14th October to buy a copy of Pocket Pirates – £4.50 cheque (payable to Orinoco Books) or exact money please.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Mould – visit 1

 

This morning fourteen children from across KS2 travelled to Leeds Civic Hall to attend a special session organised by the Leeds School Library Service. The children spent an enjoyable morning in the company of local author and illustrator, Chris Mould. Chris was hugely entertaining and talked about being both an author and an illustrator and also about his latest book Pocket Pirates. He even did some drawing too.

Pocket Pirates imageChris will also be visiting school on this Thursday (8th Oct) so if you might like to take a look at his website and also hatchette books website, click on the links below:

http://www.chrismouldink.com

https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=MYmI7G7wH-zw-Z06FepSJq6x7ZR6FqLYE-nuiz0k1j1Vs0OPIBa4Yvns

Chris’ new book Pocket Pirates will be on sale on Thursday at school priced at £4.50 each. Bring money in a named envelope on the day.

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