We run literacy workshops for children and young people. Our lessons are devised and delivered by qualified teachers.
In 2011 we delivered our first session at a primary school in Brighton with support from The Big Lottery. The children learnt about comics storytelling and structure. They chose settings and characters for their stories. They acted out conversations with each other in character and came up with some brilliant ideas.
At the end of the session we gave them a blank page with the panel borders already laid out. Amazingly, every child taking part was able to produce their own full one-page story. We are very proud of their work and are happy to share it with you here.
The feedback from the children was great. Every child taking part was given their own graphic novel to take home and several have been in touch to say they are still making comics.
Since then we have gone on to run sessions all over our local area with just under 100 children and young people taking part to date. The response has been great, with nearly 100% saying they enjoyed writing more and were going to write their own comics and stories in the future.
