What an exciting start to the week - a visit from the author and illustrator Emma Lazell.

The author of Big Cat, That Dog and Georgie grows a dragon shared with us her ideas and path to becoming an author and illustrator and gave us a chance to become one ourselves - based around her dragon book.

Our day started with an assembly:

And then moved on to a work shop in class.

Emma asked for our ideas for a new story theme, turning us in to authors:

And then moved us on to becoming illustrators ourselves:

Emma talked us through step by step instructions on how to draw the dragon:

And we then moved on to creating collages of our dragons:

Don't they look brilliant!