Schools

Becci was very enthusiastic, she engaged and settled the children quickly. She read her story [published work Scribble Explores the World] and included the children by creating actions for them to join in with. She was with the class for only a short time and they left the carpet excited about creating their own stories and even after Becci moved onto another class they still carried on creating their stories enthusiastically.

Brenda (year one teacher)

I love to work with schools and offer:

• A variety of workshops from creative writing and podcasting, to game creation;
• Storytelling – performances can be bespoke following particular themes for the individual school;
• Playful Learning Scheme-of-Work Development.

I have delivered workshops in primary and high schools, and with adult learners.

Recent Work with Schools

I spent a day working with Year 7s and 8s in Trinity Academy Cathedral, Wakefield. We explored simple text-adventure game creation. The children worked really hard to develop some brilliant individual and group games.

Our students were really engaged and enjoyed the session […] some of our nurture groups really struggle to read but this wasn’t too much of an issue as the sessions were pitched appropriately.

Ryan Heszelgraves (High School English Teacher)

After explaining how this type of game works and how to proceed, I worked with the students using pre-prepared prompts as they developed and wrote up their games.

One whole group worked together to create the following game about adventure, pirates, Krakens and vampires:

Playful Learning

I have developed Playful Learning Schemes of Work in both Higher Education and High School, and in March 2017 I was invited to give a TedX talk on my work in playful learning: