All the students loved Stef’s story workshops and we now have some very enthusiastic young authors at Lisieux. Her presentations and workshops were pitched at the perfect level for each age group. The Foundations got on board with acting out scenes from A Home for Luna and Stef had complete control over this activity. She also had the older students enthused about creating imaginative stories with her visual story seed workshop where they all had a chance to contribute to some terrific story ide [...]

Kate and Jol delivered engaging workshops for our students, focusing on narrative writing strategies in the lead-up to NAPLAN. They worked with students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, presenting interactive and age-appropriate sessions that captured students’ interest. Students left the workshops with practical ideas and strategies that they were able to apply in their NAPLAN writing tasks and in classroom assessment. We particularly appreciated the flexibility of their presentation format, which was e [...]

Vacen presented a series of engaging workshops for our students in years 4, 5 and 6 at our 2020 School Book Week. It was wonderful how she catered her program around “writing focus” requests from teachers. The children thoroughly enjoyed not only the writing activity but also the chance to learn about “World Building” in Fantasy writing and character development. Vacen was prepared, professional and it was a pleasure hosting her here at Our Lady of Mt Carmel.

Astred’s Masterclass was absolutely fantastic and a highlight of Book Week. She has such a unique job and shared the design process behind book covers and illustrations in a way that really captured our students’ imaginations. Their feedback said it all, with one student writing “It was inspiring and beautiful” and another saying “I enjoyed the fun way that she shared the information.” We found her warm, engaging and genuinely passionate, which made the session memorable for our students and tea [...]

We recently held a Literature & Arts Festival at St. Catherine's Catholic College, The Whitsundays for our Secondary students. All the authors that attended were entertaining, engaging and inspiring. I have had so much positive feedback from students, staff and library colleagues. The students have all been raving about how excellent the festival was, and they were disappointed at the thought of returning to classes for the rest of the week. I have had reluctant readers coming into the library t [...]

Andrew is so passionate, enthusiastic and dynamic and his presentations are very engaging, inspiring and educational. He maintained interest for a full hour with our young children 3-5 years brilliantly. The children love his books and respond to his enthusiasm. There is so much to learn, explore and discover in them.

The Narrative Workshops in Year 3/4 conducted by Chrissy Byers were extremely rewarding for students. They were well run and made efficient use of time. The visual prompts used were engaging and made it possible for the students to clearly structure a narrative into beginning, middle and end. To make the writing more interesting and individual, Chrissy endorsed the use of a Hook Question. Most importantly, over the weeks, there was a clear improvement in the outcomes of the children's writin [...]

Kerry has just finished her presentations. Very successful. Praise all round. The kids LOVED her. Many thanks for organising the booking.

Thanks for organizing the author talk yesterday. Our girls had a lovely time and left feeling quite inspired about writing. I really appreciated the opportunity to attend.

“Tiff is an engaging and creative educator and a great collaborator, I would highly recommend her work”

Lian was very engaging and had a variety of different aspects in her presentation. The students learnt a lot about the process of writing a picture book and particularly enjoyed building a story together.