15 Dec 2005

St Levan Primary School TR19 6HD

'Edutaining' Key Stage 1 children
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I had a great time mixing education with fun for the younger (KS1) children of St Levan Primary School, near Penzance, Cornwall. After the 'edutainment' show, I signed Kernowland in Erthwurld books.

See you next time in the Story House.

Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: St Levan Primary School, St Levan, Cornwall TR19 6HD, UK

13 Dec 2005

Falmouth School TR11 4LH

Visit to Falmouth School

I presented my slideshow for the children of Falmouth School in Cornwall.
After the 'edutainment' show, I signed Kernowland 1 The Crystal Pool books and dedicated them with the children's names.

Website: Falmouth School


See you next time in the Story House.

Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: Falmouth School, Trescobeas Road, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4LH, UK

28 Nov 2005

St Columb Minor Academy TR7 3JF

Learning to ride the wave of life...

Year 4 children surfing at Lusty Glaze beach
I presented my slideshow, which mixes education with fun, for the children of St Columb Minor Primary School (now an 'Academy').

After the 'edutainment' show, I signed Kernowland 1 The Crystal Pool books and dedicated them with the children's names.

The school motto is: 'Learning to ride the wave of life'.

I felt particularly at home at this school. My grandfather was born and grew up in St Columb Minor and my late father loved surfing at Lusty Glaze beach.

Website: St Columb Minor Academy


See you next time in the Story House.

Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: St Columb Minor Academy, Porthbean Road, St Columb Minor, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 3JF, UK

24 Nov 2005

St Mawes Primary School TR2 5BP

'Edutaining' children
I presented my slideshow, which mixes education with fun, for the children of St Mawes Primary School.
After the 'edutainment' show, I signed Kernowland 1 The Crystal Pool books and dedicated them with the children's names.

Website: St Mawes Primary School


See you next time in the Story House.

Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: St Mawes Primary School, Grove Hill, St Mawes TR2 5BP

23 Nov 2005

Bookworm Adventure - Newquay Voice

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Source: Newquay Voice

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Jack
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Location: Newquay, Cornwall, UK

21 Nov 2005

The sport of reading - Guest Author at Kid's Literary Quiz

The 'sport of reading'
I was invited to be Guest Author and Scorer for the Kid's Literary Quiz, an international event to promote children's literacy initiated by Quizmaster, Professor Wayne Mills (University of Auckland, New Zealand), and sponsored by The Times Educational Supplement.

Professor Mills' idea was that the Kid's Lit Quiz would be the 'sport of reading' for children aged 11-13, when interest in reading has traditionally dipped. The event was held on 21 November at Wadebridge Secondary School. I was very honoured to be asked to hand out the prizes and congratulate the participants.


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Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: Wadebridge School, Gonvena Hill, Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27 6BU, UK

13 Oct 2005

Author's Magical Book - Cornish Guardian

Author Jack Trelawny shows his new book to Tretherras pupils
Author's Magical Book
Students at a Newquay School were plunged into a magical adventure when local author Jack Trelawny visited to talk about his latest work.

Newquay Tretherras was the setting when Mr Trelawny, author of the book Kernowland - The Crystal Pool, entertained youngsters with a talk and slide show explaining the adventures that the two children find themselves in when they are transported to the magical world of Kernowland.

The students were told about some of the adventures and the interesting characters they meet along the way.

Lots of laughter could be heard from the school library as the students looked at some of the fictional beasts. They were told that it in fact the real world that can be researched and then used for fictional stories.

Librarians Alwany Martin and Tracy Clatworth said students who were unable to see the author have already been to the library to reserve a copy of the book.

Source: Cornish Guardian 13 October 2005



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Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: Newquay Tretherras School, Trevenson Road, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 3BH, UK

7 Oct 2005

Ideas for kids - Collect pictures

Jack Trelawny's Story House - Ideas for kids - Collect pictures
When I first started visiting schools, a big question the children asked was, 'how do we get lots of ideas for stories?' Collecting pictures is one way that I have found works to make sure I have lots of ideas come in to my head when I'm writing. Pictures are everywhere, and, if you collect them all the time, you'll have a better chance of lots of ideas coming into your head when you're writing. I've got all sorts of pictures. I keep them in the 'Gallery' of my Story House.
In the Gallery I imagine there are different 'rooms', with names above the doors, such as People, Places, Things, and Events.
People
Places
Things (also called 'Objects')
Events
And, in each room, there are filing cabinets... so the People room has a cabinet for Children and a cabinet for Adults. Then there are cabinets for Heroes and Villains, and one for Pirates, and one for Warriors.
Of course, each cabinet has lots of drawers to contain all the pictures. Some pictures belong in more than one room or cabinet. That's fine, it's not a problem to store each picture in two, or three, or even more rooms.

Organising my pictures like this means I can store them in some sort of order and look them up quickly when I need ideas. If you can't store all the pictures, you could search for 'Images' on the computer using a search engine like Google. The main thing is to always be looking at pictures for story ideas.

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Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Brother and sister brought to book

A brother and sister have been immortalised in a fantasy fiction book
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Source: Hertfordshire Mercury

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Jack
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Location: Hertford SG13 7HU, UK

6 Oct 2005

Newquay Tretherras School TR7 3BH - First visit

First school visit - Newquay Tretheras School
The first book in the Kernowland in Erthwurld Series, The Crystal Pool, was published in late September 2005.

The first talk and slideshow presentation was arranged for Year 7 at Newquay Tretherras School. As well as preparing the slideshow, I had to learn two chapters of the book so that I could tell the story without looking at the pages.

Every pupil received a souvenir Kernowland postcard.
School website: Newquay Tretherras School

See you next time in the Story House.

Happy writing... and reading!

Jack
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Location: Newquay Tretherras School, Trevenson Road, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 3BH, UK
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