{"id":774,"date":"2017-02-01T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=774"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:21:05","slug":"storytelling-at-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling at Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a wonderful morning with the creative and talented children at Barton Primary School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-770 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2003-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2003-2-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Year 1 and 2 children used the opening lines of my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?page_id=344\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jamie and the Joke Factory <\/em><\/a>to develop crazy, imaginative stories through illustration.\u00a0 I loved the fact that they were so engaged in the task and working in teams, and their stories were all so different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"barton year 1 standing\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-1-standing-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I am especially pleased that one of the teachers said she found the session &#8216;inspirational&#8217; &#8211; not just for the children but for her too! &#8211; and it&#8217;s exiting to know the children will be developing more stories based on my approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-769 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"barton year 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-2-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also had a really enjoyable time with the Year 5 class. We used rhyme to inspire our stories, based on my approach to writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?page_id=13\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hairy Fairy<\/em><\/a>. I loved the way the children worked on this task and look forward to seeing more of their rhyme-inspired stories (which they&#8217;ve promised to send me).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-771 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"barton year 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barton-year-5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of the sessions I lead today are based on some Resources for Schools which should be appearing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?page_id=503\" target=\"_blank\">School visits<\/a> page of this website soon. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a wonderful morning with the creative and talented children at Barton Primary School. The Year 1 and 2 children used the opening lines of my book, Jamie and the Joke Factory to develop crazy, imaginative stories through illustration.\u00a0 I loved the fact that they were so engaged in the task and working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}