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.

We took a trip through the wardrobe last week, working on some amazing speeches with Years 3 and 4 at the Prince of Wales School, Dorchester. The whole school has been working on C.S. Lewis’ classic ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ and the class were shocked to discover that Aslan had disappeared from Narnia!

Had a great time today working with some very exciting writers from Year 3 and Year 4 at Beaminster St Mary’s Academy. They were a brilliant group to work with and the ideas for stories were just tumbling out!

We had a great time this morning working with some wonderful writers from Years 5 and 6 at Beaminster St. Mary’s Academy. Not only did they help us identify and catch the thief who stole a story from our bank vault, but they also invented a whole cast of amazing characters that live in the Town of Dreams and Nightmares. Rest assured, we will be stepping up security at the Bank in future!

Sunday night saw an amazing, affecting final performance from some extraordinary young voices. Facilitated by the brilliantly talented Joelle Taylor, the Resonate Project allowed a group of talented young people to tell their stories and their experiences in a performance that no-one who was there will ever forget!

We are very excited to be starting the second round of our 3-way poetry project at Axe Valley Academy this week. Led by the incredible Louisa Adjoa Parker, this group of Year 8 and 9 revolutionaries are planning on changing the world with their words. These poems are a call to arms for the next generation.

We had a brilliant morning working with Hazel class at St Catherine’s Primary School in Bridport. This talented group of Year 4s and 5s took us on an extraordinary journey and created a sci-fi classic, that was as fantastic as it was unexpected. In their epic tale, we met Sherek, a bald alien who was terrified of water. All would be well in Sherek’s world, if it weren’t for the schemes of Mr and Mrs Bibi, the evil bananas!

Get ready for a performance like no other. Sunday, 7pm sees the culmination of our amazing Resonate project. Last weekend, award winning performance poet, Joelle Taylor, kicked off our 4 weekend workshops for the project and we were blown away by the talented young writers who took part! They all have brave and unique stories to tell.

We had a great time working with Cogden Class at Powerstock Primary School last week! The amazingly talented writers from Year 3 and 4 used their imaginations and their logical, problem solving abilities to help our Bank Manager escape from a locked underground Vault!

They were so good at solving that problem, that we employed them to help us write a survival guide for all sorts of other problems as well!

An amazing group of young musicians from B# Lyme Hub are out to change the world! We had a great time this week working with them to turn their song lyrics highlighting the climate emergency into manifestos for change.

Those brave journalists from The Vault, our weekly after-school news crew, got a taste for the weird this week, when we visited Bridport Museum to investigate ‘Gladys’ a haunted dress! Seriously.