Zillmere Library had a good turnout for the Katherine Howell event. Katherine spoke really well and the audience really enjoyed the presentation. They had lots of questions for Katherine which she willingly answered, and she was happy to stay a little while after the talk to mingle with anyone who wanted to chat with her. Overall it was a great event, and we would definitely recommend Katherine Howell for future author talks.

We thoroughly enjoyed our workshop with Susy. She was very professional and great with the children. We had 2 classes of grade 1 children and their artwork all turned out amazing! She was really good at going step by step and teaching new art techniques. I would definitely book her again and I have told other teachers at the school how great she is!

Allison was engaging with both parents and students at our extracurricular book club. Her presentation was interesting, and Allison was asked many many questions and eagerly responded to every one of them. Allison is a delightful guest, and I would recommend her to any school, library or book club.

Caz’s author talk kept the children engaged and focused and they left feeling excited about books and reading.

The Narrative Workshops in Year 3/4 conducted by Chrissy Byers were extremely rewarding for students. They were well run and made efficient use of time. The visual prompts used were engaging and made it possible for the students to clearly structure a narrative into beginning, middle and end. To make the writing more interesting and individual, Chrissy endorsed the use of a Hook Question. Most importantly, over the weeks, there was a clear improvement in the outcomes of the children's writin [...]

Jade is an exceptional presenter. She gave students a quick presentation and got them drawing to make their own illustrations which they loved! It was a privilege having Jade at our school.

This WAS AWESOME! • Age appropriate • Engaging • Fun and interesting • Merged science and story writing really well Such a great integration of book week and science week. So engaging and educational.

Tony was very relaxed and easy going. He stepped the kids through the process in a considered way so that no one was left behind and made plenty of time for questions and interaction.

Thanks - easy to work with, and great suggestions of speakers that might suit us.

It was our pleasure to host former Heatley SS students and now published author/illustrators Haydn and Damien Crespan in our school library this week. Haydn and Damien read their book "The Adventures of Triz the Babysitter" to each of our year three year 1 classes. They also spoke about their creative processes in terms of writing the story and matching the illustrations to the text. They brought along dinosaur props for the students to interact with - one of which was an original model of Triz [...]

Dub was wonderful with our Year 6 students. He was engaging and responsive to their interactions. And so talented!!

Students loved Edwina. She is a very engaging speaker who motivates students who are reluctant writers to focus and produce a piece of writing they were happy to share with their peers! Love her Yoga 'brain breaks'. This helped students to stay focused too!!

Vacen presented a series of engaging workshops for our students in years 4, 5 and 6 at our 2020 School Book Week. It was wonderful how she catered her program around “writing focus” requests from teachers. The children thoroughly enjoyed not only the writing activity but also the chance to learn about “World Building” in Fantasy writing and character development. Vacen was prepared, professional and it was a pleasure hosting her here at Our Lady of Mt Carmel.