23 May 2013

Story Mountain at Fane Street

After one of my workshops, P6 and P7 students at Fane Street Primary School produced a whole wall of monsters. A process of drafting and redrafting went into some of the creatures and it was very interesting to see.

P6 also like to write. Their teacher uses something called a 'Story Mountain' to guide his students through the construction of their creative writing projects. It's a line that climbs from 'setting' and up through 'character.' It peaks at 'climax' before ascending again to 'conclusion.' It's an excellent guide, I might try it myself.



Thank you to everyone I meet at Fane Street Primary.

07 May 2013

More Monsters from the Deep

P6 from Donegall Road Primary School came to to Queen's University and I gave them a class in True Monsters of the Deep. Back in their classroom they created some monsters of their own ...

















Thank you to all the students and staff at Donegall Road Primary School.