Early on Wednesday morning I left home and set off across country to Leeds where I was due to spend the day at Seacroft Grange Primary School. The motorways were ridiculously busy and it took me ages to get there - next time I visit Leeds I think I'll have to go the night before.
When I arrived at school, and was taken into the hall, I was greeted by an army of amazing robots... lots of people had been busy building robots at home - and they were fantastic.
I started the day with a silly story and then went on to work with each year group - telling stories, talking about Robo-Runners, writing, answering questions and generally chatting.
At lunchtime I had a delicious school dinner and was then given the difficult task of choosing a winning robot from each year group... a very difficult task indeed as they were all so wonderful.
The day ended with a wonderful book signing session - I hope everyone enjoys their books... 
Here's a big thank you to everyone at school for making me feel so welcome and a special "HELLO to my number one fan - C" (you know who you are).
5 comments:
How brilliant! You must have been really chuffed at all the enthusiasm they obviously put these. I particularly like the dog (or is it a pig?) robot. And I bet the arms move on the one at the top - impressive stuff indeed.
Yes, it was amazing. It's great going in to a school and finding that all the children know who you are and what you do. It makes the whole day a little bit easier and helps build up lots of enthusiasm about books and reading.
Some of the robots had moving parts and one or two even made noises and lit up.
Wo!!
To Damian Harvey,
I am really excited about you coming to Heath Mount School. I am excited about you showing us lots of different books and I think there's going to be lots of robot books. See you tomorrow.
Hi there - thank you for writing in my diary... I had a great time at Heath Mount and hope you enjoyed the day too. I'm just about to write about it in my diary.
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