Young writers workshop

The chance of learning from a successful author and scriptwriter was enjoyed by local youngsters taking part in an able writers workshop at King Offa School.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Mar 2009, 10:23 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 21:34 BST

Around 30 children took part in the event from schools including King Offa, Charters Ancaster, Sidley, Chantry, West St Leonards and Bexhill High School.

They worked with Roy Apps who is an author of no less than 54 children's stories and has written comedy for David Jason and Lenny Henry as well as working on Byker Grove. He has received a BAFTA for his screen writing.

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Barbara Taylor, who is the gifted and talented coordinator at King Offa as well as a Year 4 teacher, commented: "Roy Apps worked with the children and they presented their stories which were linked to a picture of a lady called Miss La La, who was of mixed race and lived about 150 years ago...she was an acrobat and could hold on to an iron bar with her teeth. She was a very strong woman - she went to work in a circus in Paris, but very little is known about her. The children's job was to create a story about her childhood and why she went to the circus, what it was like being the man who held her up, and what it was like to be in the audience watching her.

"They worked in groups of five and presented their story about her. This was all based on a picture of her from the National Gallery."

She felt the workshop had been successful and added: "They loved it - they were really animated by the end."

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