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Saddlebacks: Christmas Competition

By littlegreenpig | Published: December 5, 2010

Snowy christmas trees, originally uploaded by xtremepeaks. Hope you all enjoyed the snow while it lasted. I found the white and quiet really beautiful. You never know, maybe we’ll actually get a white Christmas this year… Talking of Christmas, we’ve got a gift to give away to the Saddlebacks group – a £10 book token! All [...]

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Time travel competition

By littlegreenpig | Published: November 27, 2010

Travelling through space and time, originally uploaded by noxreallyxhonest. Last week at the Piglets’ workshop we wrote about travelling back in time, inspired by the ‘Danny Higgins Time Traveller’ books. We had stories set  in Mayan times, the Second World War, Tudor times and even the beginning of time! We will be posting some of [...]

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A pebble, a money box and a spooky painting

By littlegreenpig | Published: November 2, 2010

  Photo originally uploaded by Ernest Descals. Following our trip to Hove museum, the Piglets group moved on to thinking about objects we own and how they can inspire writing. After reading two great poems about a money box and a pebble by Michael Rosen, we chose an object that belonged to us or someone [...]

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Congratulations Stani, Natasha and Ronnie!

By littlegreenpig | Published: March 30, 2010

Woodlouse, originally uploaded by Lord V. We are very happy to announce that three of our writers have won prizes in East Sussex County Council’s 2010 poetry competition! Our Tuesday Piglets and Saddlebacks and our Saturday Piglets all submitted entries to the competition, under the theme of ‘Heroes and Heroines’. Stani from our Tuesday group [...]

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Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 6

By littlegreenpig | Published: August 25, 2009

Hello everyone! I am back from two lovely relaxing and scorching weeks in Croatia. I did lots of swimming in the sea, eating truffles and reading – including the first three books of the ‘Twilight’ series. (By the way, I have to say I am definitely team Jacob rather than team Edward). This photo is [...]

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Tuesday Challenge Number 5: let’s get cooking!

By littlegreenpig | Published: August 18, 2009

George’s Marvelous Medicine display, detail of George himself with Granmda’s medicine, originally uploaded by tiramisucake22. Welcome to challenge number 5! I’ve really enjoyed reading your previous entries, so well done. It seems to have been a baking week this week. I made some banana bread, my sister baked some lovely carrot cake, and a friend [...]

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Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 3

By littlegreenpig | Published: August 4, 2009

Cup of tea, originally uploaded by ondravojta. I don’t know what you think but in my opinion, there’s nothing quite like sharing a cup of tea and having a good old chat with someone. As I’m on holidays from school, like some of you are, I’ve had the chance to catch up with lots of [...]

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Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 2

By littlegreenpig | Published: July 28, 2009

  Time Travellers, originally uploaded by larukucafe. Thanks for all your comments on last Tuesday’s summer challenge, you all seem to have busy summers planned! I have a made a note of all your book recommendations and will let you know when I read them. This week’s challenge is written by Caroline, one of our [...]

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And the winner is…

By littlegreenpig | Published: July 14, 2009

L1010250, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig. Kathy Whitestone! Well done, Kathy. Your £10 voucher for the Book Nook children’s bookshop will be winging its way to you soon. Thank you to everyone else who took the time to give us feedback on our open mic night last week. Kathy’s favourite parts were ‘all the great poems [...]

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And the winner is…

By littlegreenpig | Published: February 24, 2009

Well done Carmen! Your name was picked at random and you will get  a prize at the workshops today. Carmen wrote a fantastically gruesome sentence using the word shark – take a read! Well done to everyone else who entered, I was impressed by how you all took the instructions and used them in different [...]

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