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Personal diaries. Introduce the children to personal diaries by suggesting that they keep one for a -—-łimited time, e.g.-for the Easter holtdays. for a speęłat event week St“schoohorwhite they are^ convalescing in hospital. . ‘ ■

Encourage children to make use of their eyes and ears, to write tftfough the senses. Their diaries should be morę than simply an extension of the old infant News Books. They should write down, not just what happened, but how they felt about it, what they could see and hear, e.g.

‘Me and my friends went to see a play in Marlwood School. We went on a coach. I sat wfth Johnny. It was called the Pied Piper of Hamelin and it had a Pied Piper there. There was the Mayor and the rats and the King of the Rats. I liked the bit when the Pied Piper got rid of the rats and the Mayor did not give the Pied Piper any money so the Pied Piper took the children away. One of the rats gave us a sweet before we came away.'

This was not the ‘best’ piece of writing from the class, but this boy has attempted to give a resume of the story and tells us what he liked best, making it a vivid account of a day in the life of a six-year-_ oldchild. • —

Suggest that children might keep a diary over a restricted period: an Advent diary; diary of my

holiday to........; diary of my sister’s wedding; diary of my visit to hospital (a very important

therapeutic idea). *