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Pupils from Year 5 at Woodbridge Primary School meet every couple of weeks with Catherine Larner to discuss a story selected for them from Young Browsers children's bookshop in the town.

Previous titles have included Broken Glass by Sally Grindley, The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd and Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Today the children - Harriet, Tom, Daniel, Ben, Charlotte, Shannon and Venetia - are talking about Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne.

The book is about an eight-year-old boy called Noah who gets up very early one morning and runs away from home. He enters a forest and meets some very odd people who do quite strange things. Noah eventually meets a magical toymaker and starts to reveal what is troubling him. The book is a funny, magical modern fairy tale, and while there is a little bit of sadness, it is a story of hope.

Woodbridge Primary School book group pictured with teacher Jo Seller

A Lifetime of Experinece is a series of programmes meeting local people who have spent a long time in one particualr career or pass-time. Talking about their experiences along the way.

Mary Anne Bartlett is an artist with a passion for travel. Here she chats to Dee about her love of art and conservation and how her experiences led her to found Art Safari, a unique travel company, and Close Encounters Africa, based in Woodbridge, the home she loves and where her roots remain! Her adventures saw her train at Ipswich Art School, then study Fine Art and French at Exeter and Strasbourg. Her great-great-great grandfather's travels with Dr Livingstone led her to Malawi in 1991.

 

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We lead painting holidays and art workshops in Africa, Asia, Europe, Arctic & Antarctica.
We also design tailor made holidays in our areas of expertise.
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