Wow, what an amazing week! This Book Week was truly the best experience I’ve had in my 16 years of program management at our school. I’ve just returned from rave reviews from the head of school, teachers, and students who greeted me in the corridors. Sarah Pye was absolutely incredible. Leading up to the event, I had the usual pre-booking anxiety—wondering if the sessions would be successful, if Sarah would be able to connect with all our diverse audiences, and whether the subject matter and la [...]

Very professional, supportive and they always respond in a timely manner.

Engaging for all students, empowering them to know that they can in fact write poetry. Teacher - "I hated having to teach poetry, but now I see the purpose of it in performance and how much fun can be had with it."

Thank you Mary for creating an incredible and special experience for our students. You truly inspired their writing and connected with our students. We love your visits and you are a special part of the St Paul's community.

David's sessions with our college on Wednesday went really well and the kids had a great time. We will definitely get him back again next year.

Deano Yipadee provided a thoroughly energetic, engaging and entertaining performance. Students enjoyed the combination of music with story telling and joined in readily. Teachers were impressed with student engagement for all the prep to year 6 classes.

Rory engaged energetically with our year 1 and year 2 classes. Students enjoyed speaking with Rory and thinking about ideas for stories by collaboratively solving complications for characters. They absolutely loved drawing Rory and sharing some very interesting character traits.

Just a quick note to let you know how much we as a school appreciated the workshops and author talk last week. The students got so much from the opportunity, and were so excited by having met you.

Taryn’s creative writing sessions with Toowoomba Region Libraries were fantastic. Taryn has great content to share on the entire process of creative writing, editing and publishing which she presents in an easy and conversational style.

Jan Latta presented sessions for different aged audiences.Her presentations were highly engaging. Children were mesmerised by her videos and stories of travelling through Africa and Asia, living in a tent, interacting with and photographing endangered animals. Jan's books are filled with beautiful photographs of animals in their natural environment and describe their daily living and biological facts in simple terms and in a way that is easily accessible to young children. I highly recommend inv [...]

Paridhi visited our classroom last term to motivate the children's narrative writing. She demonstrated how she illustrates her story books, read one of her stories and completed some guided drawing with the students. The children were very engaged and interested in Paridhi presentation. They were wowed when she used her technology to show how her draft drawings could be turned into the finished coloured illustrations. The students also loved her story book, Maharaja’s Quest, and enjoyed findin [...]

We had a lovely Literature Event yesterday. Barry Jonsberg was fantastic, all the sessions went smoothly and we have had great feedback from the staff and students. Barry’s sessions had the students laughing and applauding throughout. We are now thinking about next year and would love to have Barry back. We had a great time, thanks so much.