Wonderful Day!!!

What a huge success last Saturday's fifth anniversary celebration turned out to be!  It was lovely to see so many children and grown ups there and I was very pleased the Deputy Mayor and Ciaran Murtagh were able to attend and do short speeches.  Amber James also said a few touching words as she presented the Deputy Mayor with his copies of Word Magic and Word Magic 2.  

I was very pleased to announce the Summer 2017 Project which is to keep a holiday diary or journal.  As I explained at the time, it is up to the Young Writers how they do this.  They can use either a notebook or a scrap book, or make and bind a book themselves.  I would like to see drawings, photos and tickets included and every participant will receive a Specil Award Certificate and the best diary or journal will win a prize.  The diaries/journals need to be completed and handed in on our first session back after the summer break which is on 9th September.

Many many thanks for the birthday cards and gifts for me, too.  It was a very lucky coincidence that the group's anniversary celebration should fall on my birthday.  It was wonderful when everyone sang Happy Birthday to me and I just want you all to know how very much appreciated it was.

I'd especially like to thank the Library staff for their continued support for AYW and also Jenny Crook from the Croydon Dyslexia Association for being the Deputy Mayor's meeter and greeter.  In all the excitement I very nearly forgot to introduce Ciaran who came along and did a talk for the children in November 2015, but he was very forgiving and said some encouraging words to the Young Writers.  He has also said he will be very happy to come back and do another talk some time so I will make sure I arrange that with him for the next school year.

Finally thank you to all the mums and dads for briniging in the snacks and I hope everyone got a piece of our chocolatey birthday cake!

So we have just the one session left this side of the summer holidays and that is this Saturday, 15th July.  Be nice if you can make it but I know some of you will already be in the thick of summer arrangements so don't worry if you can't.  All I would say is Keep An Eye On The Blog as I am bound to do an update or two before the first session back.

Once again thank you thank you thank you for helping to make last Saturday's event - and the Addiscombe Young Writer group itself - such a momentous success.  You are the Cream of the Crop!!