Nick Sharratt is our National Year of Reading Ambassador and launched our programme of events as Author of the Month for January. Across all our Literacy Labs, pupils have been using his book You Choose as a core text for rich oracy and writing activities, designed to strengthen spoken language, ideas, and writing confidence.
We were thrilled to be able to take Nick on a visit to our Literacy Lab at St James’ Primary school, Bermondsey where he read from one of his stories, chatted to the children about what they enjoy in Literacy Lab and looked at examples of the children’s work. He then taught them to draw a lion and a shark, and the children’s drawings inspired Nick to adapt his drawings and he added eyelashes to his lion! The children proudly showed Nick their work that they have done using ‘You Choose’.
Nick also took part in an assembly for the whole school, where he taught the children to draw two characters from his books and read the story Shark in the Park.
His visit was thoroughly enjoyed by all the children and they asked him some very thoughtful questions about being an author and illustrator.
