This morning, children’s prizewinning author, Emily Randall-Jones, officially opened Oare Primary School library. Michelle Perrett, Principal of Oare Primary School said, “We are very pleased to welcome a real author to open our library. It makes reading come alive and it’s important that the children realise authors are real people.”
With the support of the PTA, the library was created over the summer holidays. “We wanted to create a place where children could really enjoy reading. There are story stacks, story pebbles and toys to help make reading interactive. If you get reading right the rest follows,” commented Michelle.
The library’s décor depicts trees and rural scenes to reflect the rural setting of the school and the views of the surrounding countryside from all the windows. There are even stools in the shape of cows and stools made from logs which have been crafted by a parent. Oare Primary is also a designated forest school.
Declaring the library open Emily said, “I’ve never seen a nicer library what a lovely relaxing space.”
Emily, who is an ex-St. John’s student, then spent some time speaking to the chidren about reading and writing. She also read extracts from her book – The Witchstone Ghosts which won the Mslexia award and The Times/Chicken House Award. The book has also been The Times Book of the Week and longlisted for the Branford Boase award for exceptional debuts.
Emily will be speaking about her journey to becoming a children’s author, together with fellow children’s author Matthew Fox, at Marlborough LitFest on September 28, at 2.30pm in St Mary’s Church Hall. Book your tickets here.
To find out more about Emily click here for a Marlborough.news article.
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