{"id":14947,"date":"2025-11-28T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:47:18","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\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/11\/28\/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><span style=\"color: #339966\">Today all the Primary 3-5\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">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\u2019s author, best known for his \u2018Captain Pete\u2019 series of children\u2019s stories. Today David introduced us to his book \u2018Captain Pete and the Undersea Adventure\u2019; a story of Pete and his mouse TM. \ud83d\udc2d We loved listening to David\u2019s hilarious accents as he read us Chapter 1 of his book.\ud83d\udcd6\ud83e\udd89<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">A great session which really got the creative juices flowing \u2013 some freshly inspired authors -to-be after today!? Who knows!\u270f\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14947 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4837\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084628\/IMG_4837-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4838\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084626\/IMG_4838-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4839\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084623\/IMG_4839-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4841\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084619\/IMG_4841-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4840\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084621\/IMG_4840-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4845\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084611\/IMG_4845-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4844\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084613\/IMG_4844-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4843\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084615\/IMG_4843-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_4842\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/28084617\/IMG_4842-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Meta Skills\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Creativity Cassidy<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Collaborating Cora<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Curiosity Carlos<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Focussing Fergus<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Articles<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 13 \u2013 Freedom of Expression<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 31 \u2013 Rest, Arts, Play &amp; 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David is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/11\/28\/p3-5-author-visit%f0%9f%90%ad%e2%9c%8f%ef%b8%8f\/\">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-14947","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\/14947","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=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14948,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/14948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}