Recent feedback from primary schools from across Shropshire prompted us to perform a detailed review of the impact of our existing ‘Schools’ Week’ project. After much research and lengthy discussions with teachers and education leaders, we have re-designed the Schools’ Week project in order to deepen its impact and create a legacy for schools and pupils.  If you are a publisher, children’s author and/or illustrator we’d like to hear from you!

Many schools state that a visit from a successful author/illustrator provides a valuable learning experience for their pupils but that that this experience can be further enhanced by the facilitation of an author/illustrator led, classroom-based WORKSHOP.  For example, the workshop can focus on the author/illustrator giving the pupils a real-life experience of being a writer/creator of stories by sharing where they get their ideas from, how they plan, how they edit, what mistakes they make and how to rectify them.  All so as to deepen the knowledge of the creative process so that pupils are inspired by the workshop to write their own books as part of the overall project…

Please click here to find out more and how to submit.