[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-wallace-primary-school-presents-pugs-of-the-frozen-north":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This week Reeve & McIntyre made a very special visit! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/725495_original-2ffafe1816.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nGlasgow dignitaries wore not just one, but two hats to celebrate. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/725518_original-1a714e0c20.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe took the train just outside Glasgow, into Renfrewshire, to \u003Ca href=\"https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/wallace/\">Wallace Primary School\u003C/a>, where last school year, their Year 3 (now Year 4), taught by \u003Cb>Lynn Stuart\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Heather Sanderson\u003C/b>, had won a national award for their remarkable work on our book, \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/a>\u003C/i>. The UK Literary Association (\u003Ca href=\"https://ukla.org/\">UKLA\u003C/a>) presented the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/7409/Wallace-Primary-School-winners-of-UKLAs-Our-Class-Loves-This-Book-award\">'\u003Cb>Our Class Loves This Book\u003C/b>' award last July in Cardiff\u003C/a> and showed a video of all the different ways the class had engaged with the book. When we arrived, it was fabulous getting to see it on display! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/727450_original-d1a9497aec.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nCheck out these alternative story versions! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/726798_original-34e3079889.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/727262_original-6aa29922ba.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWallace Primary had gone PUG CRAZY.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/726748_original-d7acfdf435.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a map of various landmarks in the story: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/727601_original-f1aa22c6f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI love this drawing of my favourite character, Helga Hammerfest, with her two pet polar bears, Snowdrop and Slushpuppy. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/727861_original-41325c9061.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe dastardly Sir Basil Sprout-Dumpling! \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/728222_original-6221b9702a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd high-tech Shackleton Jones:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/728513_original-193416a2b8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nSome alternative character drawings: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/728595_original-97f8a5d19b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd a pug comic, taken from our activity book, Pug-a-Doodle-Do! (You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/pug-a-doodle-do/\">download this comic template here\u003C/a> on my website.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/729043_original-4d15b52d5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAn excellent Kraken drawing: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/729271_original-f9c0c81264.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nA packing checklist, including mattresses, plug sockets and 100,000,020,000 greyhounds. (I'm dying to see a story written that explains these items.)   \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/731131_original-827eaeb36e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nPugémon Go cards (from \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/pug-a-doodle-do/\">Pug-a-Doodle-Do!\u003C/a>\u003C/i>): \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/730028_original-2a78722efb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nPastel drawings and descriptions of the Northern Lights: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/729502_original-324706f0e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd hooray for pugs!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/731348_original-e6fdd1e07b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to this team for hosting us, and all teachers \u003Cb>Lynn Stuart\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Heather Sanderson\u003C/b>'s incredible work with our book, it was very moving to see how deeply they'd all dug into it. Here are Lynn and Heather with Head \u003Cb>Susan Dalrymple\u003C/b> and a poster that Philip and I drew for them before we left. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/730457_original-c8ae3c73e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe got looked after very well - oo, posh biscuits! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/730660_original-fbe9244ae3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd thanks so much to this UKLA team for coming out with us: \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LyndaJGraham\">Lynda Graham\u003C/a>, who coordinated our visit, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LockwoodCm\">Christine Lockwood\u003C/a> and \u003Cb>Jess Anderson \u003C/b>(all looking appropriately regal): \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/726126_original-8bca335305.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks, too, to Wallace Primary for giving a copy of our more recent book, \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-legend-of-kevin/\">The Legend of Kevin\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, to each child in the class to take home. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/731592_original-e7efcf2223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2019-05-26T18:29:00.000Z","wallace-primary-school-presents-pugs-of-the-frozen-north",[],"wallace primary school presents 'pugs of the frozen north'!",1776628730183]