Author Zoom with Tola Okogwu!

Tuesday 04 February 2025

This week is National Storytelling Week. Year 5 had a zoom with the author Tola Okogwu, who has written written Onyeka, among 15 other books!

About • Tọlá Okogwu BooksOnyeka and the Academy of the Sun | Book by Tolá Okogwu | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK

Tola talked through her step-by-step guide on how to create ideas for stories. In today’s webinar, we built an origin story for a person with super powers. The three main ingredients we needed for this was the person, the place and the problem.

Here are some of the creative ideas Year 5 came up with:

Help at home: Encourage your child to write their story using their ideas from today.

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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