- Encourages reading for pleasure. (Ofsted criteria)
- Rewarding for all participants.
- Opportunity for children to meet a professional writer
- Inspiration for a creative writing
- Visit link work completed in class to the wider world.
- Inspire children into the world of the written word.
- Experience something, they would not ordinarily experience.
- Generates enthusiasm for reading a wider range of books.
- Children can watch the book come to life in the way the author intended.
- Knowledge of how the book writing process happens.
- Children can identify the skills they are learning in class with the skills author has used.
- Children learn that work must be redrafted for it to be better.
Guidance for Author School Visits
The Benefits
Visit Structuring
- Encourages reading for pleasure. (Ofsted criteria)
- Rewarding for all participants.
- Opportunity for children to meet a professional writer
- Inspiration for a creative writing
- Visit link work completed in class to the wider world.
- Inspire children into the world of the written word.
- Experience something, they would not ordinarily experience.
- Generates enthusiasm for reading a wider range of books.
- Children can watch the book come to life in the way the author intended.
- Knowledge of how the book writing process happens.
- Children can identify the skills they are learning in class with the skills author has used.
- Children learn that work must be redrafted for it to be better.
Planning the Visit
- Encourages reading for pleasure. (Ofsted criteria)
- Rewarding for all participants.
- Opportunity for children to meet a professional writer
- Inspiration for a creative writing
- Visit link work completed in class to the wider world.
- Inspire children into the world of the written word.
- Experience something, they would not ordinarily experience.
- Generates enthusiasm for reading a wider range of books.
- Children can watch the book come to life in the way the author intended.
- Knowledge of how the book writing process happens.
- Children can identify the skills they are learning in class with the skills author has used.
- Children learn that work must be redrafted for it to be better.
Pricing
Face to Face
Half Day
£200
Face to Face
Full Day
£350
Virtual
20 minutes
£50
Virtual
30 minutes
£75
Virtual
60 minutes
£150
Contact
If you wish to enquire about school visits or want to discuss the details further please contact me below: