Billy Bob Buttons – Author Visit

The award-winning, bestselling children’s author, Billy Bob Buttons, visited school on Tuesday 22nd May 2018. He is the author of sixteen very popular children’s books including Felicity Brady and the Wizard’s Bookshop, the bestselling Muffin Monster, Tiffany Sparrow Spook Slayer, The Cool Kids Book Prize winner, WIDE AWAKE, and the UK People’s Book Prize winner and bestseller, I think I Murdered Miss which last year sold over 100,000 in the UK alone and won the 2014 UK People’s Book Prize. Every year, he meets with approximately 150,000 primary school children to deliver his popular literacy workshops and on his visit to us, he worked with the Gold Award reading winners to read and deliver workshops with a focus on Planning a Story, Adventure Writing and Characters.

In addition to an assembly given by him at the start of the day, children also had the opportunity to meet Mr. Buttons and buy a signed and dedicated book. A fun day was had by all with the handy hints and tips provided to budding writers.

In celebration of the Royal Wedding, Staniland Academy had their own party in the playground on Friday 18th May 2018.  The children dressed up in their fancy clothes and had a Royal Picnic.  Party food and drink shared with each other in this celebration of British values. 

On Thursday 24^th May 2018, Year 6 travelled to Warner Brothers Studio to explore the wonder and amazement of the filming of Harry Potter.  The tour started with the ‘birthday girl’ opening the doors to the great hall where the tables were set out like in the film.  Leading out from the hall, the tour continued where the children collected stamps from different sections and tried to find a range of snitches for their passport.  The children got to explore the dormitories, the hidden forest and lots of special effects.  They even had a chance to sit on a broomstick, use magic to lift the broomstick or cast spells using the wands.