 |
Years 4, 5 and 6 joined us for an assembly. Photo from school website. |
Towards the end of January I was on the road again - this time to Walton-le-Dale Primary School, near Preston.
I spent an amazing and rewarding day working with two classes of utterly
fantastic Y3 children. Loris Class and Kakapo class (great names, by
the way!) worked on coming up with new mysteries for Jack, Scott,
Emily and Drift, multi-tasking by planning the story at the same time as solving clues themselves.
Both classes had been reading an
Adventure Island book in class,
and learning all about writing mysteries, so they were already expert
authors. We made sure that we worked out the crime in advance, gave the characters obstacles to overcome, and included lots of cliff-hangers. Every group - including the Map Mashers, the Pendragon Plotters and the Code Breakers contributed to plotting the stories.