Bitterne Park Infants
I spent a brilliant day earlier this week at Bitterne Park Infants in Southampton. The theme was ‘Monsters’ so I was a little out of my comfort zone as I couldn’t really do my usual routine with the classes. However, this didn’t turn out to be a problem at all, as the children’s enthusiasm and ingenuity spurred me on. I read them my New Forest Friends & The Litterbugs book where one of the characters imagines a giant insect monster, and then a poem I’ve written about a monster catcher. Finally the children invented monsters of their own by suggesting parts of animals for me to draw on large sheets of paper that slowly grew into hideous beasts. My thanks to everyone at the school for making me feel so welcome.