Guidance for Author School Visits

The Benefits

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.

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.

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.

£200

£350

£50

£75

£150

The author must be paid in full if the event is cancelled within six weeks of the event date.
The author must be paid 50% if the event is cancelled earlier.
Any out of pocket expenses already incurred must be reimbursed whenever the event is cancelled.

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