{"id":14298,"date":"2025-09-11T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:57:21","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-p3-p6-author-visit-%f0%9f%93%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/09\/11\/%f0%9f%93%9a-p3-p6-author-visit-%f0%9f%93%9a\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcda P3-P6 Author Visit \ud83d\udcda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Today all the P3 to P6 pupils across the cluster were invited to Stranraer Academy to attend au author visit from Martin Stewart! This was done through The Scottish Book Trust organisation and we are very thankful to get this opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Martin Stewart is is a Scottish author, and former teacher, from Glasgow whose works are influenced by his upbringing near Scottish seaside and maritime towns and cities! Martin has wrote many books over the years but today&#8217;s session was mainly focussed around his new novel; Sandy Finn: Operation Splash Landing \ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udfd6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">During today&#8217;s session pupils learned how Martin came to write novels (boredom during a knee injury!) and how he uses his &#8216;imagination soup&#8217; and derives his ideas from real life to help fuel his novel writing. Martin also read a chapter of his Sandy Finn series to the pupils as a bonus treat!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">A great session which really got the creative juices flowing &#8211; some freshly inspired authors -to-be after today!? 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style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Meta Skills\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Creativity Cassidy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Collaborating Cora<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Curiosity Carlos\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Focussing Fergus\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 13 \u2013 Freedom of Expression<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 31 \u2013 Rest, Arts, Play &amp; Culture\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today all the P3 to P6 pupils across the cluster were invited to Stranraer Academy to attend au author visit from Martin Stewart! This was done through The Scottish Book Trust organisation and we are very thankful to get this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/09\/11\/%f0%9f%93%9a-p3-p6-author-visit-%f0%9f%93%9a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions\/14311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}