VISIT TO SANKEY VALLEY ST JAMES CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

ANOTHER WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE WITH DELIGHTFUL CHILDREN IN THEIR
LOVELY BRIGHT AND COLOURFUL SCHOOL. Morning Assembly followed the previous
style.  Introducing Nanna Strawberry who then read extracts from Book 6 which describes
the author's experience as a 16 year old teenager when it was announced during her shorthand
class that King George VI had died in the early hours. The new Queen Elizabeth was rushing
home from Kenya. Following the reading, the Deputy Head then led a role play, with children
standing to attention to listen to the sad announcement, and finally singing the National Anthem.
They then returned to their classrooms, where Nanna Strawberry visited each class in turn to
answer questions and to read exerpts from other books in the series. Nanna Strawberry Tells
Stories to Sophie  is proving to be a popular story, with its guessing game to create friendly
competition for the answers.

The children asked intelligent questions and made intelligent remarks. Nanna Strawberry was
particularly pleased by a comment expressed by a boy  "I think you are better than Roald Dahl".

Following these talks, Nanna Strawberry Stories 1 to 7 are available for purchase @ £3.99 each.
of which £1 per book sold will be donated to the school. Booking forms have been distributed..
Many thanks to families who have bought a book, or 3 books at a discount price of £10.00
of which £1 will also be donated to school funds. The net balance will go toward the
publication of book 8
                  'Nanna Strawberry Remembers Billy...Joan's strawberry roan pony'
This is set in our post war childhood, at our aunt and uncle's Moorside Farm at the foot of
moorland hills near Hollingworth.. It describes the terms 'strawberry roan' and 'hands high (or hh)
which describe the colour and height of Billy and also Robin, a brown bay which I rode.
Our Dad bought the ponies and they went to a new home on a Liverpool farm with flat green fields.
which was waiting to be developed as a housing estate. We had a lot of fun with other children
and their ponies.
                                                                    Nanna Strawberry

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