Visits
Over the last few years these are some of the schools I have visited...
Sedgehill School Catford, Ryde High School, Southampton Book Fair, Guildford Library, Writing On The Wall Literary Festival, Liverpool, Lowdham Literary Festival, Tudor School, Church Hill School, Woodcroft, Chalgrove, All Saints, Osidge, Our Lady Of Lourdes, St John's, Queenswell, and Sacred Heart, (all in Brent) Web Weavers Interschool Book Festival, Jarrow, Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon, Albany Junior School, Stapleford, Nottingham, Bromley Heath Junior School, Dunraven School, Streatham, East Oxford First School, Selhurst School, Radcliffe-On-Trent Primary at Radcliffe library, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Mountford House School, Nottingham, Hounsdown School, Southampton, Pilton Community College, Devon, the Lads and Dads Clubs of Hampshire, Manor Lodge School, RadlettShenley, Harris Academy, South Norwood, Elland Road Football Ground for Leeds Libraries, Ryde High School, Hugh Myddleton Primary School, Islington, and a whole bunch of schools out in Thailand including Patana, St Andrews, St Johns, Harrow and Dulwich on Phuket. Then there's been Reading Stars events at Arsenal and Islington Libraries, a week of script writing at Eltham Green School, reading and writing at Flore Primary in Northamptonshire, Coppleston High in Ipswich and Kidbrooke in, of all places Kidbrooke. A day with St Aloysius as part of the National Gallery's ARTICULATE project, a couple more projects at Hugh Myddleton, Winton School, Arsenal Football Club again, Mount Carmel Girls, Holloway School, Rushey Green Primary, Swadelands in Kent, Walsall library, Toton library, Nottingham Trent University, Sevenoaks Preparatory School to open their library, Brakenhale School to open their learning resource centre, Sandringham School, Woolwich Polytechnic School,Carshalton Primary and Yardley Court School in Tonbridge. A year as Writer In Residence at Gallion Primary School in Beckton. Suffolk Schools' Book Mastermind. Further long term projects at Little Thurrock and Ryde High School. Then there's been Everton Football Club, The Romsey School in Hampshire, Coombeshead College, Edmund Waller Primary School in Nunhead, The Jewish School, Camden Community School, two days with Blaenarfon Library and two with Caerphilly libraries, Handcross Park, Feltham Young Offenders Establishment for English PEN, Harrow Road library, Ilford County School, Maidstone Girls' Grammar, Mount Carmel Catholic Girls' School, Perse School in Cambridge, Copleston, Holbrook in Ipswich, Duppas Juniors, Noadswood School, and Oxford Community School
It's been a fantastic experience.
And now it's time for...
BEST AUTHOR-TREATMENT AWARD, 2011!
And without any shadow of a doubt, the award has to go to...
Hounsdown School in Hampshire
And to their FABULOUS LIBRARIAN, MRS BANCROFT
who organised the spectacular Wessex Schools Literary Festival.
It was amazing.
A HUGE thank you to Mrs Bancroft and to everyone at Hounsdown for their terrific hospitality.
NOW... the big question is...
Which school will win this much coveted accolade in 2012 - could it be yours!?
You can only have a chance of winning if you have a visit!