This week we have been delighted to again welcome our Patrons of Reading Metaphrog back to Northfield Academy to work with S1 pupils in a series of graphic novel workshops.

Pupils enjoyed working with metaphrog over several periods and were encouraged in their work to create their own comic strip of a famous Scottish scientist.

These workshops are part of a wider cross curricular school project to research, plan and draw a short comic strip about a famous Scottish Scientist. These will be showcased  soon on the TV screens in school. Several comics will be photographed frame by frame and music composed to create short films.

As part of the project a number of S1 classes will also attend an author talk by Allan Burnett – who has recently written “Invented in Scotland”.

Metaphrog also worked with Primary 7 pupils from Quarryhill Primary on an introductory workshop on graphic novels.