October 2016 – A Portal Through Time

Words! Words! Words! Let the writing begin!

Will our heroes vanquish Winterheart?

The excitement is about to begin! Next week the children come back from the half-term holiday bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to write.

John Dougherty our Patron of Reading will be in to encourage, inspire and write with us. Here’s where each class will fall through the time portal in search of Winterheart:

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Let the writing begin! We’ll keep you posted!

We go to print February 2017. Publisher the History Press (Brimscombe). Book launch date June 10th 2017.

And the sun shone on the book sale!

Many thanks must go to Coralie and her friends for holding another book/bric-a-brac sale under the Market House this morning, to raise funds for our school project.

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The sun shone, lots of bargains to be had and another super amount of money has been raised.

It coincided brilliantly with a Minchinhampton Local History Group event in the Market House. There, Di Wall (from the Group) chatted to me about our project and has volunteered to come into school to talk to the classes about the time periods the pupils will be writing about. This will be a fabulous opportunity for the children to ask lots of questions and learn more about the history of our town.

Excitement builds for ‘A Portal in Time’

This week the staff got together to finalise details of the project before we all begin to get writing straight after half term. Ideas began to flow, historical sources were discussed and questions were answered. We’ve decided to give the project a working title of “A Portal in Time”…much more interesting than “The Book Project”!

We were lucky to be joined by our Patron of Reading, John Dougherty, who said he was thrilled to be involved in such a unique and exciting project.

This project will see EVERY child in the school contribute to the book, and EVERY child represented as an artist in the Art Exhibition in the village next June (more details to follow!)

Meanwhile, don’t forget to support Coralie at the second-hand book sale tomorrow morning under the Market House.

Village group raise money for our project

The lovely Coralie at Stafford Cottage, and her friends, have got together and raised some money for our book project, by having a second-hand book sale in the Undercroft at the Market House.

And if that is not enough, she tells me that they are going to be holding another one, on 15th October. I have no more details yet, but feel free to call in at Stafford Cottage, or see posters around the village.

All money raised is most welcome, and will be put to very good use for the illustrating and writing of the project.