On Friday 26th September, a group of Year 8 students attended The North Cornwall Book Festival, at St. Endellion near Port Isaac.

 

Three fantastic authors/poets entertained and inspired students with talks and workshops. These included Liz Hyder, Jo Cotterill and the Matt Windle who, as well as being a poet, is also a boxer!

 

The workshops were varied; from students imagining they had to leave their home for reasons such as war, to joint creative story writing and embracing rhyming words. Students also received a voucher that they exchanged for a free book in the book shop.

 

It was an inspiring day and several of our students were brave enough to share their stories and read them aloud to the group. Well done for being so confident, imaginative, engaged and articulate!

 

Students had this to say about the day.

 

"I loved the book festival and getting to know the authors and how they got to where they are today."

 

"I really liked the author Jo Cotterill, because her activity was very fun and she was nice. The activity was writing a short story but it had to start with the phase 'We're Leaving'."