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This is a Liverpool Children’s Festival of Reading session with Joseph Elliott for Y6 and KS3 classes based on his books The Good Hawk (and the other books in the Shadow Skye series).
Liverpool Learning Partnership member schools* can access this session for free. For non- LLP members, please email admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com for information about the cost of accessing LCFR events.
About The Author: Originally from Bristol, Joseph studied English Literature and Drama at the University of Manchester, before doing an MA in performance at Central School of Speech and Drama. For the last fourteen years, he has worked as an actor, predominantly in comedy and children’s television. He is best known for playing pirate ‘Cook’ in the BAFTA-winning CBeebies series, Swashbuckle, for which he also wrote many of the scripts.
His award-winning debut novel, The Good Hawk, was released in 2020, followed by the sequels, The Broken Raven, and The Burning Swift.
Children with special educational needs have always been a part of Joseph’s life. His mother is a primary school teacher specialising in SEN and, as a young child, his parents provided respite foster care for children with additional needs. One of Joseph’s first jobs was working in a holiday playscheme for children with learning difficulties and disabilities, and he then went on to work as a teaching assistant at Westminster Special Schools for over four years. Agatha, the heroine in The Good Hawk, was inspired by some of the incredible children he worked with during that time, particularly those with Down syndrome.
About The Good Hawk:
Agatha patrols the sea wall with pride, despite those in her clan who question her right to be there, because of the condition she was born with.
Jaime is a reluctant Angler, full of self-doubt and afraid of the sea.
When disaster strikes, the pair must embark on a terrifying journey to a land where forgotten magic and dark secrets lurk in every shadow…
About the session: This session will be live-streamed through the Liverpool Learning Partnership website. The event will also be available to watch for 3 working days after the event on the Liverpool Learning Partnership website. Please purchase a ticket even if you intend to watch afterwards as this will ensure you get the links to do so.
Booking the session: Please book one ticket per school. We’ll send a link that you can then share with the colleagues so they can connect to the session. For our records you will be asked how many children will be accessing the session. We understand that numbers may change before the day so please estimate or calculate using the information you have at the moment.
Access needs: If you have any accessibility needs, please contact us and we will do our best to accommodate these: admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com. There will be a subtitled feed made available- please email us for access to this.
Resources: Resources to accompany this session will be added to the festival padlet and the Liverpool Learning Partnership website where they can be downloaded. Schools who sign up early for LCFR events will receive some copies of texts for their reading areas/libraries.
Further information: For more information about the festival please visit https://www.liverpoollearningpartnership.com/what-we-do/reading-for-pleasure/liverpool-childrens-festival-of-reading/
*You can find our members list on our website or for any queries regarding membership please email admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com
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