What’s Going On?
It is very exciting to be honest, as we finally have the proof copy of the first issue of our quarterly newspaper created by the after school club. It looks absolutely awesome and we can’t wait to get the final copies out to everyone.
Its a Sushi Emergency!
It was a real pleasure to work children from all the year groups at Greenford Primary school this week. They created the wonderful story called “Sushi Emergency” all about Timmy the tortoise.
UK & Ireland creative writing conference.
What an absolutely lovely and inspiring event hosted by the team at Ministry of Stories in London. I think the over riding word that came out of the two day conference was: JOY!
Weymouth walkabout
For our second session with Budmouth academy we took the young writers on a walking tour around Weymouth. Well actually they took us on a walking tour, and we even got to taste some Bubble Tea!
A guidebook to Weymouth
Have you ever been to Weymouth? Do you think you know all the great places to visit? We are spending the next 10 weeks with a group of twenty young writers from Budmouth Academy to create their own Guidebook to Weymouth.
BoDaN x Beaminster scouts part 2
For our second session with the scouts we created a storybook with beautiful illustrations by Emily Stewart.
BoDaN x Beaminster Scouts
We are thrilled to be collaborating with Beaminster scouts to obtain their creative writing badges. The first session we created Haiku’s and they came up with some crackers.
The Scheming of Mr Chicken
It was great to be back doing Storymaking Workshops again this week. We had a wonderful time with Seatown and Cogden class at Powerstock school creating their fantastic story about a beautiful Doe called Leah and her run ins with Mr Chicken Who-Likes-Cheese (the evil wizard), and the karate-kicking bunny called Cheeks!
Volunteer of the month
“As soon I heard about it, I thought, this is for me,” Raja explains. “I had been developing skills as an amateur storyteller, which was interrupted by COVID, and I missed the storytelling community. The Bank offered a way of getting back into something I loved doing.”
It’s a Marshmallow (and spaghetti) World
We had a wonderful time during our last two Food Glorious Food! workshops at Salway Ash school; pupils ages 7-11 worked incredibly hard to bring together their own food stories to complement the recipes they’d brought in.
Brace for descent…
We had a fantastic launch event to herald publication day of Spiralling: A Slow Descent into Madness, the anthology of eerie fiction penned by Year 9 students from Sir John Colfox School.
Powerful prose & prawn skills
The second week of our Food, Glorious Food! project with Salway Ash Primary School was a busy mix of sharing experiences and writing. The youngsters brought in recipes and talked about why they were an important part of their lives.
Primary Care
Our primary school storymaking workshops are one of BODAN’s flagship fun creative writing sessions, in which a class of children in Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11) become published authors in a single morning, with a fully illustrated book given to each participant.
Salway Ash shows impeccable taste
Our exciting new project at Salway Ash Primary School is underway. Food Glorious Food! is a celebration of what we love to eat, and an exploration of the stories behind those favourite foods and experiences.
Autumn Bounty at BODAN
In France, September is known as La Rentrée. A new academic year begins, the family holiday season is over, and everyone is getting organised.
It’s a Wrap!
The final report from our short blog series on the inaugural summer holiday creative writing club…
In the Zen Zone
The penultimate in our short blog series reporting from our summer holiday creative writing club…
Day 3: There was an aura of serenity about the place as our young writers entered to music from a Japanese garden and an oasis of calm, for our Japanese Literary Garden Day.
A Glorious Glossary of Food
The second in our short series of summer holiday club posts…
Day 2: We had a food-themed day and it was another jam-packed session for the young writers (pun fully intended!).
Holiday Club kicks off with Craft, Comics & Cyclops
What an August at BODAN! In between preparing for big autumn projects and book launches, we ran our first Summer Holiday Creative Writing Club at the WI Hall in Bridport.
What Happens Next…
Regulars to this blog will know that our Primary Storymaking workshops have been a massive success story since they began in November 2021. We visit a Key Stage 2 class or year group, we help them to write a story collaboratively up to a cliffhanger moment, and we set them off to write their own endings in a writing journal.