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LANDYBOOKS IN SCHOOLSGeneral feedback from one school:Veronica provides an inspirational and engaging workshop for Primary pupils. She expertly explains to the pupils what it means to be an author and gives an insight into her day to day work. The pupils?are enthralled to listen to her explain how she crafts a story and the how the characters evolve as the story enfolds.? A particular interest to the pupils was how Veronica is able to use her artistic skills to illustrate her own books. This weaves together Veronica's fantastic skills as an author and an artist to produce a highly personal and quality book for both young and old to enjoy.Class Room Links:1. Having a real life author visit the school is inspiring and motivational for the pupils.?This appeal spreads across pupils who are avid readers and writers but also targets pupils who are developing their writing skills and are excited by the prospect of writing a real story themselves.2. Prior to Veronica's visit teachers and pupils are able to explore her work and to predict what makes her choose the topic of Land Rovers as her theme. This generates much discussion around authors and pupils naturally talk about their favourite authors. Pupils are able to compile a list of questions to pose to Veronica, taking care not to replicate their ideas.3. During Veronica's visit all pupils are engaged by Veronica's lively and enthusiastic approach.?She speaks about editing and listening to criticism and using it as a growing tool. Her experience of making mistakes again and again but not giving up encourages pupils not to get discouraged. Veronica shows how learning comes out of making mistakes. She appeals to all ages as she is able to tailor her delivery to match their needs.4. The use of the much loved Land Rover as the central character is both endearing and exciting to all ages of readers. Primary school boys are particularly drawn to the characters of Landy and Fender and are keen to talk about their adventures. This naturally leads into exciting writing opportunities where often reluctant boy writers feel energised to the express their ideas on paper. Veronica's books, accompanied by her visit, are a fantastic way for schools to raise standards of the boys’ literacy skills.Below are some literacy teaching ideas that the Landybooks inspire:orally retelling the storywritten retelling of the storyhot seating the main characterfinding an image of a Land Rover and building a story around thisuse Landy or Fender as the central character and write a new story for them, with new problems to overcomeresearching the individual storylinemind mappingrole play of the storydeconstruct Veronica’s storiesidentification of language used e.g. adjectives, verbs, nouns and?adverbsrange of sentence types used; e.g. simple, compound, complexplan the structure of a story; beginning, build up, problem, resolutionplan to use expanded noun phrases, relative clauses etcwriting songs and poems about Landy and friendswriting thank you letters to Veronicaengaging parents by selling the Landybooks at a discountArt work:making storyboardsartwork based on illustrationsusing mixed media, as Veronica does.book makingbookmarkscommunal drawing and painting of a map for Landy to drive along making cardboard LandysFor younger children:making a play area of a writer/illustrator’s desk – see what Veronica has on her worktopstoryboards and dummy booksacting out the Landy and Fender stories and presenting at assemblyMaking a Landy story sack with props for telling the stories which children can then engage with to help the story along.Ideas for other subjects:learn about marine rescue work, starting with Fender and the seal rescuelearn about what you can do on a smallholding/self-sufficiency/biodiversity starting with Landy’s New Homemapping a journey in a Land Rover, drawing a map, looking at what road signs mean deciding on the purpose and what you need for the journeybudgeting for costs then subtracting as the journey goes along, addition of funds when someone pays for a lift or earn some money from doing a job on route. overcoming problems on the waychoosing a Land Rover in another country and researching what landscape it drives through and what work it does (Red Cross, environmental, engineering, rescue, fire-fighting, aid work, police, ambulance, war)researching the culture of the people where the Land Rover lives and works mechanics, design progression of Land Rovers, looking at how Land Rovers are adapted for the work they do eg cherry pickers, hoses etcmeasuring the proportions of Land Rovers and what weight they can carry and look at how they overcome difficult terrain.Additional notes from other schools:After writing their own Landy stories, our older children then actively helped the younger classes with the structural planning of their stories. This was a hugely successful activity for all the children.We also linked your stories to Scratch (a computing program where the children have to programme games - linked to the curriculum) they created Land Rovers which had to collect the sheep from the field and they got points and added timers etc into it to differentiate. They were amazing and are ready for the other two classes to play in the New Year.It would be great to have online project packs with a video of Veronica giving her talk that we could use on our Smart Board. We have spent three weeks on the Landybooks project work and boys, girls and staff have loved every minute of it. We have two boys who were refusing to read, now fully engaged and excited by the Landy stories.Notes complied by: Veronica Lamond, December 2015 ................
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