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Dear Reader Welcome back to the new school year, and a particularly warm welcome to everyone who is reading Primary Times for the first time. We hope you all had a wonderful summer break and were able to recharge your batteries ready for the adventures that await us in the coming months. The Primary Times team are delighted to bring you the back to school issue, packed with lots of fun ideas and exciting things to do with your children – see our What’s On Where guide and Box Office pages for more information. Our competitions are on page 13, win family tickets to see Treasure Island, a craft course at Eco Centre, and the chance to win a £250 Toys R Us voucher. Plus on page 15 you will find details of our annual Primary Times creative competition to design our Christmas card! Good luck to all who enter. Don’t forget that if you have an event coming up in your school or if you have news to celebrate, write to us at marion@schoolspublishing.co.uk and we will try to include it in our October issue. Marion, Carolyn, Niki and Catherine It is a great honour but it’s also a great responsibility. It feels slightly unreal too, partly because my career began almost 20 years ago, exactly the time Quentin Blake was the first Children’s Laureate. Quentin was a huge influence my becoming an illustrator. I loved his illustrations really before I knew who he was as a person. There was the Grimble and the illustrations from Betsy Byers 18th Emergency, my favourite book as a child. And I remember watching him Contents television back in the days when the BBC had a programme called Jackanory. It was so wonderful to see live drawing as the story was told, and in fact Quentin Blake was the first illustrator I realised was an actual real person. It was so different in those days. You didn’t have the same chance to meet authors and illustrators as you do now. 6 What do you plan to do as Laureate? I’m interested in championing children’s creativity and I want to encourage children to spend a little of their time looking, listening and making things because they’re driven to create. I’ll be starting a blog soon called ‘Staring Into Space’ where I’m going to hopefully help inspire that. I also want to champion reading and drawing for pleasure and to elevate children’s book illustration to the level of other art forms. I think illustration is seen as something less than fine art, and writing for children as slightly less than writing for adults. I think we can be a little bit patronising about it. That’s a shame, because we know that literature is life-changing for children and the first art we really get up close to is in books. That’s where we begin with reading and storytelling. We do children a disservice if we can’t see and celebrate its power. I also want to talk about diversity, as inclusivity is really important to me. There 10aren’t enough books written by and about people of all kinds of backgrounds and culture. It’s important because if as a child you don’t see yourself on the front cover of a book then how do you feel part of society? Which books, authors and illustrators are your main inspirations? I have so many. When I was a child I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I remember reading it when I was about 14 inside this issue could be yourself like Pippi Longs No. I was terrible at being myself. I was very self worried about what people were thinking - am I thing, am I saying the right thing? All of my charac now are at least moving in the direction of being How important do you think it is f to daydream and stare out of the I think it’s vital. You can’t come up with anything amount of boredom, because boredom is the be invention. Solving problems and letting your mind the edges of something. It’s how you get to an in become creative. When I get really stuck in my o out and look around at things. I go to the cinema 4 What’s On Where put on the radio, I tune into people’s conversatio amazing things. And when I hear or see somethin write it down. You end up with notebooks full of 6 Did You Know? What are you working on now? 10 Classics For Kids 12 Box Office 13 Competitions I’m writing a chapter book for younger readers, nine-year-olds. It’s very, very illustrated because I so much when I was writing my Ruby Redfort se drawings. My new Charlie and Lola book A Dog W coming out in the Autumn. It was inspired by loo in the park near our home with my daughter and kind of dog we would like to have. 14 Interview With Lauren Child Do you have any advice for childr starting to write? My advice would be to write what you enjoy. You about something that interests you. It might be s that you see out of the window or something th or about your family. You’ve got to enjoy what yo won’t be able to carry on. You’ve got to let thing and watch how people talk and interact. Dig dee 15 Design Our Christmas Card CONTENTS memory and try and tap into how things feel. Lauren Child’s latest book in the Charlie and Lola series, ‘A Dog With Nice Ears’, is published CALLING ALL by Orchard FAMILIES Books AND on 28 TEACHERS! September and will Remember to send in your news for be our news available pages – we from would high love to street hear from bookstores you! Don’t and forget online to visit at us online a at www.primarytimes.net recommended priced / of £12.99. staffordshire THE PRIMARY TIMES TEAM Editor: Marion McAdam marion@schoolspublishing.co.uk Sales: Carolyn Wright ptstaffs@schoolspublishing.co.uk Tel: 01491 411848 Production: Niki Ince-Green productionpt@schoolspublishing.co.uk Design: Catherine Crook Primary Times in Staffordshire, Schools Publishing Limited Unit 1A, Thamesview Industrial Estate Newtown Road Henley on Thames RG9 1HG TEL: 01491 411848 FAX: 01491 411416 www.primarytimes.net/staffordshire ...the UK’s biggest, free ‘what’s on’ magazine for parents! Primary Times in Staffordshire distributes more than 42,000 copies seven times a year, and is part of a national network distributing more than 2.7 million copies in 59 regions across the UK and Ireland. Primary Times is independently published and distributed free through national primary schools in Staffordshire. It aims to inform families and children about current educational issues, forthcoming events, courses, attractions and to give teachers, pupils and parents the opportunity to participate in the magazine by adding to its contents or by joining in the competitions. It is NOT our intention to publish any racist, sexist or politically based material whatsoever. We also undertake not to carry any advertising which we would consider to be offensive to young families or harmful to the best interests of young children. Primary Times would like to thank all the schools in Staffordshire for their assistance in distributing the magazine and for their contributions to its contents. We would also like to thank all the advertisers who have supported this publication and therefore made it possible. Please support their endeavours when and where you can. The copyright on all written material, logos and advertising artwork produced by our studio remains with Primary Times or with the relevant contributor. Primary Times is currently publishing over two million copies per issue under franchise licences throughout Britain. www.primarytimes.net/staffordshire | BACK TO SCHOOL 2017 Primary Times 3
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