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Over the years I have developed a series of workshops and demonstrations on how to promote creativity and creative writing in the classroom.

I used to lecture to Nursery Nurse students, Childminders, Support staff as well as Teaching students and I have adapted the content and delivery to suit the particular needs of the students.

I have given many workshop talks at a wide variety of conference circuits in in England and Scotland. 

When I am working with the children in school I see this as a demonstration of easily copied techniques which are specifically aimed at increasing the observing teaching professional's own confidence in delivery of story writing. I see any follow-up In-Service training that I do as a fuller explanation of the theories and background of developmental writing. 

With INSET training in a whole day workshop I would work with the teachers at broadening their own understanding of what a story needs to have in it and how they can model story writing within their own classrooms. Everything that I do is meant to be inexpensive, easily led by the teaching professionals after I have gone and repeatable. My ultimate aim is to demonstrate and reinforce a serially developed approach to story writing and recording of ideas by children from Foundation stages to Key Stage 3 and adults.

One of the most important aspects of what I do is to get the teachers to experience what we ask children to do, i.e. write a story. This is not to put the adults 'on the spot' but if they can understand how to construct a story with the techniques that I have shown them then they can have the confidence to show children how to make their own stories.

Included in all of this there is an overview of how to develop a single, serially developed strategy to record their stories in a simple, ever-increasingly complex and detailed way that will become familiar to the staff and the children.

Many teaching professionals find the art of storymaking difficult and it is my aim to demystify the process and make it a matter of confidence and excellence within the school.

I have produced a DVD of these techniques called 'How to write right.'