Author Tom Palmer visited Tranby this week and a number of pupils and staff joined him for lunch in the Drawing Room. As a struggling reader he spoke to pupils, encouraging the love of reading for pleasure. Tom spoke about research, writing and editing and he answered questions regarding his 54 books. Oliver won a copy of The Last Try, commemorating the life of Jack Harrison, the Hull FC hero killed in the First World War. Tom also presented Accelerated Reading certificates to pupils and Mrs Wilson presented Tom with a Tranby bookmark.

Tom spoke to Year 3 pupils about the book they are reading, D-Day Dog, about parachuting dogs in World War Two.

Last term Year 6 used Arctic Star as a basis for blackout poetry. Year 5 and 6 were set Tom’s new book “Them” as homework where they had to read five chapters and write five questions for the author. The pupils with the best questions; Stella, Sophie, William and Sienna were awarded a signed copy of Arctic Star. You can watch the story HERE.