Elaine’s visit to St Gregory’s Catholic Primary school, Stockton-on-Tees
Y3 Reading ‘You can’t play Charlie Farley!’
VENUE: St Gregory’s Catholic Primary School, Stockton on Tees
AUDIENCE: Nursery to Y6 in their classrooms, one class per year.
MEDIA: Video of real dogs and individual PowerPoints for each year group on memory stick connected to classroom desktop and monitor
CONTENT: For each of Nursery, YR,Y1,Y2
Why do we write stories and why I write stories?
PowerPoint giving visual cues to: the Team who produce my book - Photos of Author, Illustrator, Publisher
Video of the real dogs showing aspects of them that are related in the stories
Live story telling of one of my books including questions before, during and after to explore the story and the theme.
Any questions for me?
Follow up activities to the story read, either paper based or role play e.g Hot Seating to how I came to write stories starting from when I was their age!
For each of Y3,Y4,Y5,Y6
Team work to produce a book - Author, Illustrator, Publisher
The process of writing a story, showing my scribblings, communication between the Author and Illustrator as the pictures build up to the final version, drafting, re-drafting etc.
Video of the real dogs showing aspects of them that are related in the stories
Live story telling of one of my books including questions before, during and after to explore the story and the theme.
Any questions for me?
Writing task, structuring their own story about Charlie Farley and Jasper using the 5 part Story Mountain plan after having seen example from the book I read to them.
Class teachers carried on the stories after I had left.
SCHOOL’S PREPARATION and SUPPORT agreed in return for no charge for visit:
A copy of each of Elaine’s published Charlie Farley books bought for the school
Agreed Story Mountain plan sheets printed off for each class after discussion about content with Elaine
Email letter to parents the week before, on the day as a reminder and after with details of author’s visit with details about pre-ordering books before visit or buying books at Home Time on the day. Elaine’s web site given so parents can have a look before or after the day.
Staff reviews and photos sent to Elaine afterwards
What the Staff and Children said about the visit!
TEACHERS
YR
' Our Reception children loved meeting Elaine and listening to her read the story 'Oh No, Charley Farley'. We have since read some of Elaine's other books in class and the children have loved them. They have been drawing pictures of Charley Farley.' Lucy Ashley, Reception teacher
Y1
'The children in Year 1 loved the story 'Don't be scared Charley Farley'. They enjoyed doing activities with Elaine about the story. We have had lots of discussions of what we do when we feel scared.'' Ayesha Quyoom, (Year 1 teacher)
Y5
Elaine came to our year 5 class and read her book to them. The children were engaged and thoroughly enjoyed that the dogs in the books were her own pets at home. She showed a video of them which was a lovely touch as it gave the children a visual. Elaine engaged the children in a story planning task which inspired the children to write their own short stories. The children continued to talk about their own stories after the session. Miss S Sharpe (Year 5 teacher)
Y6
The Year 6 children thoroughly enjoyed reading and listening to Elaine's book 'It's OK to Feel Sad, Charlie Farley'. They particularly enjoyed that her stories were based on real life, especially her family as the human characters. They were inspired to plan their own stories about what Charlie Farley might do next, and are looking forward to Elaine's next Charlie Farley book, as well as her next series of books being released! Mrs J Rooney (Year 6 teacher)
Y2
Y2
Y4 Reading 'You Can't Play Charlie Farley!'
Y4 Meet the real stars of the books!
Y3 Explaining how the illustrations process happens
Story reading to Y3 'You Can't Play Charlie Farley!'
Y4 Showing how the real dogs inspired me for the stories
Y4