Some of the Completed New Ghost Books

After 8 weeks of hard work from both the Monday and Tuesday cohorts a total of 55 8-page hardback concertina books were created! They are a wonderful mix of detailed, outlandish, delicate, confident, sensitive, experimental, bizarre, beautiful, weird, scary and elaborately told new local ghost stories. As a collective they appear like a graveyard of haunting headstones ready to be displayed in the school hall during the exhibition and showcase event to mark the end of the project. Wonderful! 

Text Time

Both the Monday and Tuesday groups took so well to applying text onto the pages of their books using one of two old typewriters I took into the classrooms, a wide selection of rubber stamp alphabets, along with copious stacks of 'letraset' rescued from a defunct graphic designers. The students took to the typewriters surprisingly well, taking their turns and keeping patient when they made mistakes and realising there is no Delete button! The boys seemed to love them the most and wanted to know how they worked mechanically. The 'letraset' also worked brilliantly, as the students in both classes gained the skill and confidence to apply the transfered letters seamlessly to their books. Finally the books looked as though they were coming together.