So P5-7 ventured to Scotland’s Book Town today for a morning packed full of Literary delights! We’ve been rather on-the-go recently (as you might have noticed from our blogging!) and today meant that we have now enjoyed an experience in the first four weeks of term 1 from almost every curricular area – wow!
The sun was shining as we arrived in Wigtown. We enjoyed Renita Boyle’s now legendary warm-up act for the authors – Boogaloo is a favourite with us all! She then introduced the Edinburgh-based author Lari Don. Lari has written nine novels and many picture books too. She writes for teens, 8-12 year olds and a younger audience and has just completed a trilogy entitled ‘Spellchasers!’. She read an excerpt from the latest novel and then got the 260+ children in the Festival Marquee thinking about their own creative writing ideas. As Lari said, to write the best stories you can you need to always ask questions, be imaginative and live a little! Many of the boys and girls enjoyed hearing about her stories so much, that they bought a copy of one of her novels. Some children were on chapter 2 by the time they got on the bus for home!
Rab Wilson, a Scottish poet, entertained us next. He read from a range of Scottish texts; some his own poetry work and some books written by others for children of all ages. He encouraged the boys and girls to explore their knowledge of Scots language – and taught us a few words we hadn’t heard of too.
We had a great morning – it was really interesting! We are looking forward to hearing about the P1-4’s experiences tomorrow!
