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02

Dec 2021

Education
Education

Children's author visits Birstwith school

Published: 2 Dec 2021, 11:24 GMT

by John Plummer

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Eleanor McKone, author of the children’s series of Piper’s Passport books, read her stories and encouraged pupils to write at Belmont Grosvenor School, which is based at Swarcliffe Hall, Birstwith.

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Children's author Eleanor McKone at Belmont Grosvesnor

Pupils at Birstwith independent prep school Belmont Grosvenor were taken on an educational journey Down Under when children’s author Eleanor McKone visited.

The Leeds-based writer of the children’s series of Piper’s Passport books read her stories and encouraged pupils across all age groups to write.

Her visit was one of only a small number of in-person workshops she has run since the start of the pandemic.

Sophie Johnson Bannister, head of English at Belmont Grosvenor, said:

“Author days are an excellent way of giving children purposeful reasons to write. Listening to Eleanor explain the process of writing, how she corrects mistakes, proof reads and works on her books for long periods helps our older BGS pupils understand the processes they go through when writing.
“Having an author into school gives the children the opportunity to ask questions about story construction, about what it takes to be an author and ideas behind the books,” she added.





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Ms McKone said:

“It’s so lovely to be working with pupils in person, rather than over zoom, and I hope I have inspired them to travel, when Covid fully allows, as well as encouraged their love of reading and writing."


Belmont Grosvenor, along with its Magic Tree Nursery, caters for children aged three months to 11 years and is based at Swarcliffe Hall, Birstwith.