Make a Guidebook - livestreamed event for primary schools
Join Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Viviane Schwarz to create your own guidebooks and explore places, spaces and cultures.
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour
For: Key Stage 2; Years 3-6; ages 7-11
Join Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Viviane Schwarz and Ben Shires to explore guidebooks and examine maps, urban and natural landscapes, global foods and cultural histories. The session will spark excitement about non-fiction and enhance English and geography skills.
Children will be inspired to make their own guidebooks, focusing on a place of their choice: a city they’ve researched, a faraway nation, a historical landscape (e.g. Ancient Greece, Egypt or Viking Britain), the solar system, their own neighbourhood, or even a fictitious or virtual environment.
What to expect:
- Rashmi Sirdeshpande will read from her new book, Amazing Asia, and show beautiful examples from a variety of books, looking at maps, cities, nature and cultures from around the world.
- Through make-alongs and draw-alongs, Viviane will demonstrate how to create imaginative details for your guidebooks, including fold-out panoramas, lift-the-flap buildings containing cross-sections, postcards sent home, and plates of local foods!
- Ben and Rashmi will offer creative prompts to help students develop ideas for their own guidebooks.
What to bring:
- Each child should have a minimum of five sheets of A4 paper and a pencil.
- Please ensure a teacher or school staff member is present in the classroom for the duration of the session
Share your students’ work with us on X @BL_Learning or via email to childrens.books@bl.uk to enter our prize draw and win book tokens for your classroom shelves or school library.
The guidebook activity can be adapted to support your existing summer term project.
We’d be grateful if you could complete the short questionnaire when signing up to this event. The data you provide helps us to shape our programme according to your needs and to understand where our audience is and how many children will be watching. Many thanks.
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Frequently asked questions
The link sent to you in your sign up email is used to access the event, and the recording of the event afterwards. Please check with your school IT provider that YouTube live events are not blocked by sending them the link and asking them to authorise access.
Please ensure children have 5 sheets of A4 paper and a pen/pencil.