Author Visit to St Mary’s

To wrap our World Book Day celebrations, we were lucky enough to secure a visit from author, Steve Skidmore, on Thursday 3 April. Steve, along with his writing partner, Steve Barlow, has written over 270 books for children covering all kinds of adventures. Their newest venture is with graphic novels on Shakespeare plays. Some of our Year 7 and 8 students were treated to a Romeo & Juliet performance (with audience participation of course) and a detailed analysis of Macbeth.

Steve was very engaging and it was wonderful to see the students so enthusiastic about Shakespeare! Both plays are studied in the English curriculum so it was excellent foundation work for our students.  Selected students took the opportunity to share lunch with him too. We all discussed lots about history, Shakespeare and books. Everyone had a marvellous time and Steve was as complimentary about our students as I was proud of them. A great day had by all!