{"id":17829,"date":"2025-11-27T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=17829"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:35:02","slug":"author-alan-performs-on-behalf-of-wigtown-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=17829","title":{"rendered":"Author Alan performs on behalf of Wigtown Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Wonderful Day of Stories, Songs, and Creativity in Portpatrick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pupils from Portpatrick Primary and St Joseph\u2019s Primary enjoyed a fantastic joint learning experience this week as they spent the day together in Portpatrick. After a lovely lunch, the children took part in an engaging and energetic storytelling session with author Alan Windram, creator of the much-loved One Button Benny series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan brought the stories to life through expressive reading, actions, and interactive moments that had every child joining in with excitement. Pupils explored how illustrations are created by looking closely at drawings from the books, inspiring their own creativity and curiosity about how stories are made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A highlight of the day was working together to create an original song, linked to the themes in Alan\u2019s books. The children sang, moved, and even finished the session with a dance, celebrating their learning in a fun and memorable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Linking to SHANARRI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience strongly supported the&nbsp;<strong>SHANARRI Wellbeing Indicators<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Safe &amp; Healthy:<\/strong>\u00a0Children were supported in a safe environment while being active through song, actions, and dance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Achieving:<\/strong>\u00a0They developed literacy skills through storytelling, listening, and contributing ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Building Meta-Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session also helped pupils develop key meta-skills, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Creativity:<\/strong>\u00a0Designing a song, acting out stories, and exploring illustrations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Communication:<\/strong>\u00a0Listening carefully, joining in with 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Pupils from Portpatrick Primary and St Joseph\u2019s Primary enjoyed a fantastic joint learning experience this week as they spent the day together in Portpatrick. After a lovely lunch, the children took part in an engaging and energetic storytelling session with author Alan Windram, creator of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=17829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Author Alan performs on behalf of Wigtown Book Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}