Andy uses all his experience as a writer/performer/teacher to ensure that his audience get the full benefit of a true learning experience. He can work with any age group and any ability. No group is too challenging.
For school visits, Andy brings in his huge leather bound book of secrets which are reputed to have belonged to the Great Lafayette himself. Inside are props to inspire storytelling and creative writing. Children can also learn a few amazing confidence building tricks. Andy gives readings from ‘Terrifyingly Talented’ and recounts tales of some of the most unusual acts he has ever worked with. Creativity is the main ethos behind his performances and he will ensure that all his audience will go away with new skills, be it a trick, a written work or a story to tell.
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Andy uses his unique poetry maker resource for a fun filled interactive poetry extravaganza. Children use games to create their own poems. They learn about rhythm, pace and how everyone is a writer that can utilise all their senses to create a brilliant piece of work.
Crime workshops are fun and interactive. The groups will create their own ‘criminal’ which can then be been used for school classroom displays. They will learn all about stereotyping, how crime started and how it is detected. They are told how children down the ages were treated by the judicial system. This is a brilliant, interactive session that will soon be backed up by Andy’s next book ‘Terrifyingly Criminal’.
Andy does INSET days for schools and specialises in methods to keep pupils stimulated and engaged.
Restorative Justice is Andy’s passion and his ‘Writing Wrongs’ resource for restorative justice in Youth Offending Teams and Schools is now available. www.writing-wrongs.org.uk
He has enhanced CRB disclosure and full public liability insurance.
