The OLA Festival of Reading continues with five more events in the week of 23 - 27 September, with one open to the public on Thursday evening.
Monday 23rd September: Mark Robson, best-selling fantasy fiction author and former RAF pilot
Lessons 1 & 2: ‘Devil’s Triangle’ for Years 7 – 10 in CMA
Lessons 3 & 4/7 & 8: Workshops on Developing Fictional Characters for Year 9, half year group in each workshop in Room 22
Meet the author
As well as his three sessions Mark Robson will be in the Library at lunchtime to answer any questions you have on the RAF, his books, writing & reading, etc.
Tuesday 24th: Mercy Day
Mr Oliver on OLA Alumnus ‘Bertram Ratcliffe and the First World War’
9 am – 10 am for Years 10 & 11 in CMA
Followed by VIP Visitor Sir Thomas Boyd Carpenter, County President of the Royal British Legion, to cut the ribbon for re-naming of the Library as the Ratcliffe Library in honour of Bertram Ratcliffe, awarded the Miltary Cross for his daring escape from a prisoner of war camp in World War I, and who endowed the school's first Ratcliffe Library in 1948.
Thursday 26th: Julie Hearn, Carnegie shortlisted local writer of historical fiction.
Lessons 1 & 2: ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ for Year 8 in CMA
Lessons 4 & 5: ‘Emily and Hazel’ and the Suffragette Movement for Year 9 in CMA
Lessons 7 & 8: ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ for Year 7 in CMA
Thursday 26th: Bernard O’Donoghue, Whitbread Poetry Prize winner. 'An Evening of Irish Poetry' – All welcome
6 pm Refreshments from 5.30 pm. No need to book.
Friday 27th: H. L. Dennis, author of the Secret Breakers series, exciting adventures mixing fact and fiction and code breaking
Lessons 1 & 2: 'Weaving Fact and Fiction' for Year 7 in CMA
Lessons 3 & 4: 'Code Cracking' for Year 9 and Year 10 in CMA
1.30 pm: 'Weaving Fact and Fiction' - OLA welcomes 300 children from local primary schools to enjoy a session with this exciting new writer.
