First Day! - Welcome

Today we got underway with our writers extension group at Lawrence Area School. We are a group of 9 students who all love writing, aging from 7 years old to 13 years old.

We began our session by discussing what we might like to get out of the group - and it was unanimous that we all wanted to write creatively through the genre of narrative.

We talked about what we might like to call our group and came up with the name 'The Crafty Crew.'

We were each given a journal that we can personalise at home. We can use the journal as we like to note down anything of interest that we see. We can write in our thoughts and ideas, we can write in our memories, we can draw in some plans - they are a tool used by good writers all over the world.

We began writing in our journals by jotting down all the things about ourselves that we would include in our 'bio' for our group blog.

We have established this blog so that we can share our writing with our friends and our families. We all agreed that we like to entertain with our writing, and that when we are particularly proud of a piece of work we like to share it with others. The blog seemed like a really good place for us to be able to do this.

We are responsible for the blog as a group and we will be able to publish our own work directly to the blog - so not only will we be improving our writing skills, but also our blogging skills. This means that we can be working on our own projects at home.

As a group we will be meeting at school twice a week. once during class time and once during a lunch time, and we will be working with Mrs May and Mrs O'Connell to develop our writing skills and craft our writing. It is a very special group to be involved in and we feel privileged to be invited.