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World Book Day

World Book Day
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Our World Book Day workshops, activities, assemblies and author visits have been specially designed to help you and your pupils celebrate World Book Day by bringing your favourite books to life!

The Extraordinary Adventures of Fillolog!
Whatever book our friend Vistie was reading as a little girl (and she read a lot of them!), it always featured Fillolog, an extraordinary creature with an extraordinary appetite for stories. They were there in the forest, as she read of wolves, owls and eagles. They were there in the sea as she devoured tales of pirates, shipwrecks and treasure islands. And they were there in the distance as she read of adventure, action and mystery. Fillolog also had their own story to tell - but now that Vistie has got older, it’s faded to the back of her memory. And that’s where you come in! Because you and your pupils have the chance to help her by writing a unique and extraordinary whole-school story - with Fillolog at its heart!

The Extraordinary Adventures of Fillolog can accommodate the whole of up to a two-form entry in a single day*, comprising an interactive assembly, workshops (one per year group) and follow-up literacy activities designed to put flesh on the bones of the story.

The workshops see children participating in related and age-appropriate drama-based activities before working together to solve literary clues revealing key aspects of Fillolog’s story.


The Character Hunt!
The great characters of fiction leap off the pages of the books they inhabit and into our imaginations because their authors have taken the trouble to breathe life into them, creating fully rounded beings. And now your pupils will get the chance to do that too, in our new programme, The Character Hunt!

In a lively whole-school assembly, children will meet The Mighty Pen a writer with plenty of wonderful ideas for stories - but no characters to put in them! The Pen, will, though, introduce your pupils to some archetypes – and challenge classes, a year group at a time, to take part in workshops designed to transform those archetypes into all-encompassing characters.

EYFS / P1 will muse over The Magician – and what it is that magicians love to do …

Year 1 / P2 will have a look at The Hero – and what heroes do when they’re not being heroic!

Year 2 / P3 will investigate The Villain – just where do villains hatch their plans?

Year 3 / P4 will shed light on the Lover - do lovers always have to be so soppy?

Year 4 / P5 will consider The Clown – and what makes them laugh!

Year 5 / P6 will analyse The Athlete – and where their competitive spirit comes from …

Year 6 / P7 will go into The Geek – what do they want most in the world?

The Character Hunt can accommodate the whole of up to a two-form entry school in a single day – and is available as both an in-person and a live streamed experience. And every school booking The Character Hunt will receive a free digital download of follow-up ideas and resources.



A Visit from Bookman - Character Visit
The world’s newest superhero, Bookman has the extraordinary power of bringing stories to life – and he'll fly into your school all set to help your pupils in doing the same. Armed just with his trusty Book Bag, he'll make an unexpected appearance at an assembly before leading classes through a series of exciting, engaging and enticing drama-based workshops (all differentiated for age). And the outcomes? Connection-making, Freeze-Frames and Talking Tableaux, illustrating key narrative moments from a host of well-loved stories!


Paige Turner's Fiction Mission
If the characters in our favourite stories only come to life when their tales are read, what would become of them if Mr Noah Magination got his way and had all books banned? Paige Turner is on a mission to save the fictional worlds that these characters live in and she’s going to need your pupils’ help. After introducing herself at a whole-school assembly, she’ll work with a number of classes, using age-differentiated drama approaches to bring some of their favourite characters to life, exploring what it is that makes them so wonderful and what we would stand to lose if we never had the chance to meet them in the first place. This is her only hope winning over Mr Magination and guaranteeing the survival of books and stories for future generations- and that hope lies in you!


Scenes from Shakespeare (also perfect for Shakespeare Week)
Shakespeare was a superb storyteller – and his stories still survive unscathed today! These exciting workshops, though, take him back to his roots – by taking a dramatic approach to his work. Working with one of our professional drama specialists, pupils will get an actor’s-eye-view of one of his plays – and have a chance to taste the text too!


CSI: Bookmark - Bookman Rides Again! - Character Visit
Already enjoyed A Visit from Bookman? Well, now you can now invite the homemade superhero back for 2019 with CSI: Bookmark - Bookman Rides Again!

After reacquainting himself with the children at an assembly, Bookman will meet each year group in turn, challenging them, in age-appropriate ways, to help him out of a pickle. He's been running a competition at his local library - but his arch-enemy has jumbled up all the entries! In a frenzy of connection-making, pupils will use their knowledge of a range of well-loved tales and, like Bookman himself, spread a love of reading before, we're sure, saving the day!


A Celebration in Rhyme
Working with up to 420 children to create and perform a School Poem in just one day!

A celebration in Rhyme has been developed to help celebrate the stories your pupils love in verse - by writing and performing a collaborative School Poem in just a single day! After a quick assembly sharing our love of poetry and issuing the overall challenge, children will participate in collaborative writing workshops. Using our unique “RunAround” methodology, KS2 classes will choose the themes and content, creating the lines as they go - with EYFS and KS1 providing the chorus. And the outcome? A beautifully crafted poem extolling the wonder of stories that’s unique to your school!
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Locations: Northern Ireland; Scotland; Wales; England;
Telephone Number: 0151 708 8886
Postcode: L1 0AH
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Workshop Themes: English, Storytelling, World Book Day, Author Visits, Illustration, Drama, World Book Day Workshops
Ages (Keystages): Ages 2-5 (Early Years),  Ages 5-7 (KS1),  Ages 7-11 (KS2),  Ages 11-13 (KS3),  Ages 13-16 (KS4)
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