
Workshops and Author Visits

Annually, we celebrate and participate in the following events:
National Poetry Day celebrated each year
World Book Day celebrated each year
Annual Essay Competition
House Debating Competition
Theatre visits
Overnight trip to Stratford-upon-Avon
Book Week
SPELLATHON
Readathon
Annual Book Week, celebrating amongst others:
Annual Book Review Competition
Annual Book Character Day
Annual Book Fair
Annual Book Exchange
Annual Silent Reading Week
Lewis Carroll walk in Guildford
2000
Garry Kilworth (author visit) | Keith Chatfield (author visit) |
Ian Whybrow (author visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream
2001
Pat Moon (author visit) | Alan Durant (author visit) |
Ben Morris (film animator visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream
2002
Geraldine McCaughrean (author visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream
2003
Pippa Goodhart (author visit) |
2004
Pete Johnson (author visit) | Chris Connaugthon (storyteller) |
John Foster (author visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: The Tempest
Victorian Ghost Story telling session
2005
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream
2006
James Riordan (author visit) | Roger Stevens (poet visit) |
Ian Whybrow (author visit) | Chris Connaughton (storyteller) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
2007
Jamila Gavin (author visit) | John Harris (storyteller) |
Chris d’Lacey (author visit) | Mark Robson (author visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream
2008
Julia Golding (author visit) | David Schutte (author visit) |
Julia Jarman (author visit) | Berlie Doherty (author visit) |
Kit Wright (poet visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
2009
Kevin Crossley-Holland (author visit) | Korky Paul (poet and illustrator visit) |
Chris Connaughton (storyteller) | Nick Handel (television author visit) |
(Feb)Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night's Dream
2010
Chris Wormwell (author/illustrator) | Bruno Vincent(author visit) |
Tim Bowler (author visit) | Andrew Cope (author visit) |
Marcus Sedgwick (author visit) |
Theatre of Widdershins - 'The King's got Donkey Ears'
2011
Brian Moses (poet) | Chris Riddell (author and illustrator visit) |
G. P. Taylor (author visit) | Intext performance (storyteller) |
Ali Sparkes (author visit) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Midsummer Night's Dream
Book Fair and book exchange
Character Day
Annual Book Review Competition
West End Theatre in Schools
2012
Nick Handel (author visit) | Tracey Alexander (author) |
The Armitages (author visit) | Philip Reeve (author and illustrator visit) |
Anthony Lishak (author) |
Young Shakespeare Company: Macbeth
Book Fair and book exchange
Character Day
Annual Book Review Competition
A Taste of Dahl theatre performance
2013 (Disrupted by snow!)
Damien Dibben (author/film maker) | Paul Cookson (poet) |
Cliff McNish (author) |
Young Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Book Fair and book swap
Character Day
Annual Book Review Competition
House Reading Festival
Older boys and staff reading to younger boys
2014
Andy Cope (author and illustrator) | Chris Bradford (author) |
Val Bloom (poet) | Damian Dibben (author) |
Chris Connaughton (author and storyteller) |
Book Character Day
Bookswap
Travelling Bookshop
Young Shakespeare Company
2015
David Gatward (author) | Christopher William Hill (author) |
Sally Crabtree (performance artist and song writing poet) | Nick Toczek (writer and performance poet) |
David Bedford (author) |
The Young Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Book Swap
Travelling Bookshop
Book Character Day
2016
Nick Cook | Sonia Leong |
Chris D'Lacey | Brian Moses |
Chris Connaughton |
Young Shakespeare Company
Travelling Bookshop
Book Swap
Book Character Day
2017
Sam Gayton | Stan Cullimore |
Matt Dickinson | Josh Lacey |
Chris White | Andrew Lane |
Nick Handel | A F Harrold |
Young Shakespeare Company
Travelling Bookshop
Book Swap
Book Character Day
2018
Andy Craven-Griffiths | Chris Connaughton |
Nicky Singer | Coral Rumble |