We felt like proper rock stars taking our group of Year 6s from Broadwindsor Primary School to record an album of their songs on Friday. The Songbank team got to lay down their tracks at the achingly cool Echotown Studios outside Dorchester and they really excelled themselves!

We’ve been having a lot of fun working with a group of enthusiastic young journalists from Beaminster School, creating a brand new print publication. This group of tenacious news-hounds are digging the dirt and uncovering the truth of everything from how the cost of living increase is affecting businesses in Beaminster, to whatever happened to the Beaminster Swimming Pool.

Wednesday saw us working with some politicians in the making. The Year 4s at Salway Ash Primary School were reading ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ by Elspeth Graham and Mal Peet but the monkeys had disappeared. Who would now help Tashi pick the Cloud Tea from the tops of the trees?

The launch parties for our new anthology of subversive verses have been wonderful! We’re so proud of everyone who worked with a poet to create such a powerful anthology. The launches have been both celebrations of the amazing writers who contributed to this anthology, and testament to the power of poetry to address societal issues, big and small, head on without fear.

We went to Salway Ash Primary this week to talk about creating characters. We worked with their brilliant Year 3s until we were interrupted by a call from our Bank Manager; someone had broken into the vault! The children gathered the evidence left by the intruder and they all worked together to create… Sprinkles, the Donut Reindeer!

It’s International Poetry Day and we’re celebrating the official release of our latest publication - ‘Speak Up!’ This amazing anthology of subversive verse has been written by some extremely talented poets from Axe Valley Academy, Badmouth Academy and Sir John Colfox Academy. Each group got to work with a professional poet with one simple brief, to write a poem that will change the world. No pressure there, then!

We were delighted to be back at Charmouth Primary School for World Book Day last week. In a very special assembly, both Adventurers and Navigators classes heard their fantastic stories read by the incomparable Martin Freeman and the ultra-cool Edith Bowman.

We loved working with Navigators Class at Charmouth School to create this fantastical, adrenaline-pumping story about a lonely Cheese Wizard and her battles with the ultimate enemy - the Scottish Cheese Knife. Things go from bad to worse for our heroine, but does she have a plan up her sleeve? Does she even have sleeves?

We were delighted to be able to present Bredy Class and Eggardon Class with their new books last week. The writers worked so hard on their two epic tales, “Benji’s Revengi” and “Dave’s Weird World”.

The young authors from Bredy Class at Thorner’s Primary School wrote a brilliant story on Thursday: “Dave’s Weird World”. The tale tells of a simple broccoli-based hero, the titular Dave, who is thrust into a struggle for the streets of Broccoliville. Pitted against him are the evil Carrot gang and their leader, Nick the Tomato. The world the young authors were able to create was truly epic!

We had an absolutely brilliant morning working with a fantastically talented bunch of writers from Throrner’s Primary School in Litton Cheney. The Year 5s and 6s of Eggardon Class invented an epic tale of romance, betrayal and grudge-match football. Proving that, just because you’re the best footballing pig, doesn’t mean cheese can’t break your heart!

What a brilliant morning we had at Shute Primary School, working with the amazing Year 5s and 6s in Badger Class. They absolutely blew us away with their story ‘The Capybara Conundrum’. It is a tale of magic, adventure, unspoken heartache and terrifying spiders. Will our hero be forced to face his crippling fear of these eight-legged beasts? Will his best friend, Toddle, help him out? What’s a Capybara superhero to do, when even a cupboard of goblins isn’t enough?

Ash Class, from Mountjoy school in Beaminster, have launched their YouTube review channel today. The channel is live now and we think it’s awesome! Click here to check it out.