{"id":20250,"date":"2025-11-27T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=20250"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:34:48","slug":"p3-5-author-visit%f0%9f%90%ad%e2%9c%8f%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2025\/11\/27\/p3-5-author-visit%f0%9f%90%ad%e2%9c%8f%ef%b8%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"P3-5 Author Visit\ud83d\udc2d\u270f\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today all the Primary 3-5&#8217;s were invited to Sheuchan Primary to attend an author event from David C Flanagan\u00a0as part of the Big DoG Schools tour organised by Wigtown Festival Company and supported by The Foyle Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>David is a Scottish author, raised in Edinburgh and living in Orkney, who made the special trip down to Dumfries and Galloway to introduce himself and his books. He is both an adult and children&#8217;s author, best known for his &#8216;Captain Pete&#8217; series of children&#8217;s stories. Today David introduced us to his book &#8216;Captain Pete and the Undersea Adventure&#8217;; a story of Pete and his mouse TM. \ud83d\udc2d We loved listening to David&#8217;s hilarious accents as he read us Chapter 1 of his book.\ud83d\udcd6\ud83e\udd89<\/p>\n<p>A great session which really got the creative juices flowing \u2013 some freshly inspired authors -to-be after today!? Who knows!\u270f\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><b>Meta Skills\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div>Creativity Cassidy<\/div>\n<div>Collaborating Cora<\/div>\n<div>Curiosity Carlos<\/div>\n<div>Focussing Fergus<\/div>\n<div><b>Articles<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Article 13 \u2013 Freedom of Expression<\/div>\n<div>Article 31 \u2013 Rest, Arts, Play &amp; Culture<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div 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