Inside Ibstock Prep Issue 1 Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Inside Ibstock Author Events

Eloise Smith

Eloise Smith, a children’s author with an impressive career as both an Olympic fencer and Commonwealth fencing champion, paid a special visit to the Prep School. Pupils were joined by children from The Alton School for an inspiring talk by Eloise, who encouraged pupils to pursue their dreams and signed copies of her books for them.

Robert Tregoning

Author Robert Tregoning visited the Pre-Prep School to talk about his new book, ‘Dress in theWindow’. Reading to Kindergarten, Prep 1 and Prep 2 pupils, he brought the story to life with music and different costumes. Pupils had fun drawing pictures of when and where they would wear outfits, part of Robert's idea generation before writing.

Laura Bates

Prep pupils enjoyed a visit from Laura Bates BEM, the award-winning activist, writer, speaker, journalist and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality. Prep 4, 5 and 6 pupils were deeply engaged in her talks on everyday sexism and had the opportunity to ask questions at the end of her session.

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