School Visits with Just Imagine
On 30th April, I visited Chelmsford for some school visits arranged by Just Imagine Story Centre.
At Tyrrells Primary, I ran a character design workshop for Year 6 students from Tyrrels, The Bishops’ School and Springfield Primary (nothing to do with The Simpsons).
The group came up with some amazingly original characters, including a kind-hearted pygmy elephant, a leprechaun who would rather kill children than see them upset, a sock-hating forest being who had to cross an ocean to rescue her family from a museum, an animated gargoyle who could pick locks with his teeth, a youthful criminal mastermind, a girl who turned into a marshmallow due to an extreme allergic reaction, an unpronounceable alien and many more. I really hope that some of those ideas become stories!
With students from The Bishops’ School
After lunch we traveled to Felsted Primary, where I gave a talk in the music room, followed by a signing in the sunshine.
A couple of Victorian tiles depicting Aesop’s Fables, over the fireplace in Felsted’s music room
