Tag: Live Literature

Home from Glastonbury!

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Well that’s been an exhausting but fantastic trip away to #GlastonburyFestival where I was just one of the fantastic storytellers telling tales in the #kidzfield and #greenfutures Field!

Loads of photos to come once I’ve got the umpteen loads of washing done 😉

In the meantime here’s a wee post about what’s coming up, and a photo of the Kidz Field opening from Duck In A Dress !

In about half an hour I’m heading off to North East Sensory Services to tell some local tales!

Tomorrow I have my last visit to Turriff Academy as part of my Scottish Book Trust #liveliterature residency! 🙁

On Thursday evening I’ll be helping some local Rainbows with their Storytelling Badge

And Friday, Saturday and Sunday is the Stonehaven Folk Festival! Another post on that to come 😃

Come along for a story!

A photo of Pauline surrounded by colourful entertainers at the opening of the Kidz Field at this year's Glastonbury Festival. She is holding Fairy Puppet, Fizzy the Fairy who is greeting everyone coming in.

Turriff Academy True Stories

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It’s a snow day today, so no Live Literature visit to Turriff Academy for me today

Instead I’ve been reading over the fantastic work done by the two S2 classes!

One of the homework tasks they’ve been set is to go off and speak to family member or friend to find out some of their own stories.

Pupils asked questions like “What’s the naughtiest thing you did as a child?”

“What was school like when you were younger?”

“Do you have any stories of petty revenge?

“What news story do you particularly remember?”

We’ve had some amazing responses which will be posted on the S2′ Live Literature Residency Blog which you can find here – blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/turriffacademyliveliterature/

A photo of some of the handwritten stories submitted by S2 pupils at Turriff Academy

Two Live Literature Events!

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I have been totally rubbish at posting since Spectra – probably still coming down after all those Irn Bru Jelly Babies 🤣

But I have been busy!

I’ve had two #LiveLiterature visits from @scottishbooktrust
One at Kemnay Academy – where we spoke about boulder hurling giants and other local myths and legends. Of course I forgot to get a photo!
But I did manage to get a photo at Charleston Library 😃 Here’s the P6s from the local school (who knew all about Gardieloo!)
Thankyou librarians, teachers and pupils for two fantastic visits!!

Pauline and the P6 class from Charleston Primary School pose for the camera.

A Busy Week

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It’s been such a busy week I’m just catching up with myself!

First I had a photoshoot with the wonderful Windswept Stories Photography down at Fittie with Elsie the Fishwife. Of course that will need a whole post of its own. I’ve just seen the photos and they’re amazin!! Elsie has instructed me that I should show as many showing her good side as possible.

On Wednesday I had my third visit to Turriff Academy where the S2s looked at Doric and Scots and were subjected to my awful singing – all in the interest of demonstrating how special our local languages and dialects are! (Probably more on that later too!)

And on Thursday I had SO much fun at Bucksburn Academy’s ASN unit. A few puppet pals came with me and each class had a shot at telling a story with me using the animals. Fizzy and Fuzzy took charge at various points and I’m glad to say Fuzzy was allowed some peace from his sister to take the stage and do a song and a poem. Nae bad Fuzzy. Nae bad.