A return visit after four years but there were quite a number of children who remembered me (or Patrick, who is famous for stealing the limelight!) I saw all the children from the Tiny Tots aged 2-3 all the way up to Year 6 in two exciting days. Thank you so much, Suzy Carter, for all your input and help and thank you teachers for your very generous feedback! More of that in a separate post.
LANTAU INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
A return visit to Cheung Sha and Tong Fuk. Lots of hilarity fun and games. These smaller schools are always such a pleasure to visit; everyone knows everyone else and the children are full of vim, vigour and vitality. Mischief at the Waterhole produced lots of smiles and laughter.
CHINA
…a first for me! I met Chrissy Erwin in Chiang Mai a couple of years ago. When she moved to Guangzhou she invited me to visit UGIS. Sorting out the paperwork was far easier than I anticipated and the visit was a great experience. Patrick and the crew made hundreds of new friends (and learned a few words of Mandarin into the bargain!)
Everywhere I go the children are lively, vivacious and lots of fun. China was absolutely the same and we had a really successful and enjoyable time.
Huge thanks go to the Erwin family for having me to stay. This totally eliminated the anxiety of how to get around a city with barely a word of any appropriate language!
A lovely thank you note from Head of Primary
St CLARE’S
This visit was another ‘first’. 300 children Year 1 to Year 3 for an hour’s storytelling! I was just a tad apprehensive but everything went brilliantly and the girls were bright, lively and lots of fun.
St CLARE’S PTA
We had a full house of parents and children for ‘The Art of Storytelling.’ This comprised a PowerPoint presentation with tips on making storytelling a lively, exciting and rewarding experience. We worked both with and without books and pictures and had lots of demonstrations. The parents were wonderful, joined in with great enthusiasm, were most appreciative and really found their five to eight year–old selves during the story sessions. I think you created the best storm ever during the swallows migration section of ‘Patrick’s Birthday Message.’
It started with a really enthusiastic and friendly welcome. I felt like a famous celebrity with children calling out from everywhere,“Hello Gailclarke!” (all one word!)
We enjoyed five fun-filled, action-packed days of presentations covering a wide variety of themes:-
I was delighted with the interest, and lively participation of all the children in the Primary department aged five to eleven and amazed by their knowledge and awareness of global concerns, as well as their understanding that we all need to do something about it! The safety of our planet could not be in better hands than those of all our Patana Planet Guardians.
The Early Years (two to four-year-olds) were a joy! They participated in the Parrot Dance, listened to the story and chatted to the puppets.
A HUGE ‘Thank you’ to
