Spoons, Aliens and Future Billionaires: Pamela Butchart Visits St George's

On Thursday 13 March, St George's had the absolute honour of hosting one of our favourite authors, Pamela Butchart! Pamela was touring schools for her new book Diary of a Future Billionaire. We're already big fans of her books, so Primary 3, 4, 5 and 6 were extra excited to welcome Pamela along with our guests from Merchiston Castle School, Compass School, and Cargilfield School. Pamela spoke about her books and characters, inviting lucky students (and staff!) to come play a role acting out a short story. She shared where she gets inspiration from her own real life school experiences - from spooky toilets to awful school lunches! 

She left us all with ideas to write our own silly stories and get creative. The general consensus after was that it was one of our best author visits ever! Thank you, Pamela!

Pamela Butchart is an inspirational author. She is the author of many famous books, for example Baby Aliens Got My Teacher. In her talk, she invited people up to the stage to act as someone in her books. I thought it was rather good. Something I was interested in was the improvised play she put on because you got to play a character from her books! I was not so keen on being a spoon (wrapped in tin foil) because I did not want to pick someone up off the ground because I might drop them! Overall, I thought she was an engaging speaker. - Julia (P5)