Back in April we were very fortunate to have a visit from Laura Dockrill. Laura came in to talk to the Year 7s and the event was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone, pupils and staff alike. Laura is coming back to Charters for our Wonder of Words Young People's Literary Festival in July and we can't wait to see her again. Two of our Year 7 pupils decided to write something about Laura's visit for book blog:
Laura Dockrill
Visits Charters
School!
That
day was Exciting, because when she first came in I thought it would be
like the first writer visit, silent and boring. But then she started talking in
this AMAZING,
CRAZIEE voice
that made me feel like she was saying “WE’RE
GOING TO HAVE A FUNN TIME!” so,
she went on and said she liked this boy in 7T, (but I don’t remember his name)
and EVERYONE started
laughing! Afterwards, we asked her a LOT of
questions… to do with her favourite stuff (I asked her what she loves to
watch on TV and she said Tom and Jerry! I WATCH THAT TOO!) And when she found
out I was a twin she flipped and
said that she ♥LOVED
twins. But we weren’t the
only twins there! There was Emily and Maisie. After 20 questions or MORE, she
read us an extract of her book in which one of Darcy’s friends (in her new
book) love this girl in her class but the girl has not time for him and Darcy
tells a story about an octopus loving a girl from the outside… and later pops
out on a poor granny trying to sunbathe!
Then
later on, it was almost time for her to LEAVEL. Nobody wanted her to leave… and her
book sounded so interesting and I had NO money…
… Sickening. Just sickening. And everyone who
bought money was jumping up and down and I felt small! But something else
happened- I was chosen for my face to be in the newspaper with ME standing next to
Laura! SQUEEE! So, the photo was taken and my sister came up to me. I was so full of
energy and she asked if I was alright. I then opened my mouth and said, “Did
you know? I want to be a WRITER.”
By Marie-Louise Lawson, Year 7.
In April Charters was very lucky to have an author come into our school. Her name was
Laura Dockrill and she talked to all the year sevens about her life as an author, her
childhood and about her new book called Darcy Burdock. Some of the things that
Laura talked to us about were about why she wanted to become an author. She
said that she would think about a main part for a story and just write it down.
What I
personally like about the visit was that she did not just talk about her
stories but about her as a child and about how she is now and why she has blue
highlights and wears dresses that look like a peacock (long story).
The main
part of the visit was when she talked about her brand new book Darcy Burdock
and I really like it because in the story the girl Darcy talks about the
stories that she makes up herself so the way I look at it is another name for
Darcy Burdock is Laura Dockrill because Laura loves to share her stories to
other people so I think she has written the book about her but changing the
name.
I enjoyed
Laura Dockrill's visit because I really liked how she talked about her as well
because I felt I knew her and I only had 1 hour so I think for the year groups
to come I definitely think they should have a chance to see a author like we did and enjoyed just like me
.
By Kiera
Fahey, Year 7
Our thanks go to Laura and to Random House Children's Publishing for arranging the visit.
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