Virtual School Visits

I had a lovely school visit with pupils at Manley Park Primary. They asked such imaginative questions!  So impressed! Here's what they said..... Hi Claire,  Thank you so much again! The Infant children got so much out of that. Thanks Jenny and MPPS Infants, Manley Park Primary School 

📚       WORLD                  📚               BOOK              📚           DAY                  📚                         Dear Claire, I've heard some fantastic feedback from your wonderful zoom visit. The children really enjoyed it and your wonderful books. Thank you so much for this wonderful experience. K. Hillier, Bishop Henderson C of E Primary School 

18th December 2024 I SO enjoyed my school visit to meet Riley Class just before Christmas! This was the third time I've visited Hillyfield Primary and they are always so lovely and wonderful!! This is what they had to say...... 'What a way to end the term! Riley class had the honour of meeting the amazing Claire Freedman via a virtual school visit!! She read her new book Dragons Love Underpants! And we loved it!  We have been so inspired by Claire, our favourite author this half-term! We decorated underpants for her and some children shared their books for their writing for pleasure project. I think we might have some budding authors and illustrators!! Thank you, Claire for such a wonderful experience!!! Nursery Hill and Riley Class  Ms L Blackman Thank you Riley Class and Nursery. I'm so glad you had fun and I LOVED seeing your work and all your decorated underpants. What brilliant designs! It was great fun answering all your fantastic questions too. I think you are ALL bu...

ST KATHERINE'S SCHOOL, CANVEY ISLAND, ESSEX This comes with a huge THANK YOU for the wonderful story time! Mr Cuddles made us chuckle, he is really cheeky and we loved him lots!! The children so enjoyed talking to you and thank you for answering all their questions so kindly. They were SO excited and giggling when you showed them what was inside Max Monster's yucky tuck box! All the children were engaged from start to finish and the teachers thought it was great fun too. Thank you again so much - it was truly fantastic and the children are still talking about the visit!  Love St K's Reception Class x R. Barnard, St Katherine's, Essex

We had a virtual session with Claire Freedman, the author. She actually did 3 sessions - for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. The children loved it! It was inspiring for them to hear a real author - whose books they were familiar with - not only reading her own work, but talking about how she became an author, and how much she enjoyed her work. 5 out of 5 - amazing. We loved it. Thanks so much. C. Steele  

Some comments from my visit to the wonderful RILEY CLASS   - thank you so much for having me. I had such great fun meeting you all....... and I was SO impressed by your wonderful artwork and underpants designs!! D uring our visit from @clairefreedman some of Riley Class shared our writing for pleasure project. Claire then shared a book she made when she was a child! Such an inspirational experience. Future Authors in the Making! Riley class had the honour of this half term's favourite author, Claire Freedman, visit the class (virtually). We enjoyed Ms Freedman reading two of her amazing stories and showed her the underpants we designed for her. Thank you! So inspired by our visit from Claire Freedman. One member of Riley class drew their very own Alien that loves....yes! You guessed it! An alien that loves underpants! December 2023

   Please pass on my thanks to Claire for her session on Wednesday. The children loved it and have been talking about it a lot since! Ms L. Simmonds, Willow Primary Academy, Tuffley, Gloucester

  Hi Claire Thank you so much for reading the story to the children, they really enjoyed it! It was  so nice for them to meet the author of one of their favourite books. We are really looking forward to learning through the book over the next week. C. Dyton, St Pierre School, Leigh-on-Sea

Some PANTASTIC work sent in from Class 1 at St Mary's. Thanks to you all! So glad my visit inspired this brilliant funny underpants story, and your pictures were all SO good too! What a talented bunch you all are! The king was going to the coronation. But he had no underpants! King Charles asked Queen Camilla can I borrow some. But the underpants were too frilly. So he asked Prince William can I have your underpants. But they were too big and they fell down! On the way to the coronation the king met brachiosaurus. The brachiosaurus had spotted bloomers. No thanks! Then he met a pirate captain with gold pants. I like your underpants the king said. Can I have them? No the captain said. He waved his cutlass. The king got his sovereign's sceptre to fight the pirate. The king lost his orb in the fight and his sovereign's sceptre. The king had no underpants and no sceptre and no orb! A selection of artwork from the day.

    Here are some lovely reviews of my World Book Day school visits 2023 Click 'Read More ' below    

  Claire Freedman, with Reception children during our Space Topic, gave the children an idea of what an author is/does. Great interaction with the children and answered all of their questions. S. Mackenzie

  Frostburg State University, Children's Literature Centre, USA,                                          PRESENTING....PIRATES AHOY DAY! Ooh arrr me hearties! I will be joining Frostburg State University, Children's Literature Centre, USA, for a fun-filled Pirate Day! Click here for more exciting details!

  Thank you very much, it was much harder having a class offline as they are harder to monitor, but well done they loved it|. Mr Burrows, Haileybury Almaty, Kazakhstan

  Thank you to the brilliant author @clairefreedman who met virtually with our youngest children today. Our children loved the stories shared, including Superkid and Spider Sandwiches. What an afternoon!  Thank you!  Belle Vue Primary School, Cumbria

  Thank you Claire for such a brilliant school zoom visit to our Reception and Year one children at St Katherine’s C of E school, Canvey Island, Essex!! It exceeded all expectation and the children were thoroughly engaged throughout! It was lovely that you could relate to them on their level particularly during the question and answering session. The children felt confident to ask questions and you answered them so appropriately and sensitively! We were impressed when a child asked if your books were written in other languages and you were able to produce an example to show them! Our children were inspired by Mr Cuddles and enjoyed the interaction with him! We thoroughly recommend Claire’s virtual visit it was amazing! ! Thanks Claire once again for that memorable visit it was truly a special time to look back on! Ruth, St Katherine's C of E School, Essex

  Claire, A very big thank you for your input today and for accommodating us.  I was with the P1 (reception) children after the call and when we hung up, one of the little girls said “That wasn’t good, it was awesome! I really like her”.  There was a lot of ‘what if?’ chat this afternoon which was just lovely. Many thanks, Gill, Echline Primary School

  Drapers Mills Primary School  (Via Virtual School Visits) Hi Emily, It was fabulous! The children loved it and I will definitely write a review.  Please say sorry to Claire for me, I think I might have hung up prematurely, I thought she was all finished and I felt awful that as I hung up I heard her say something!  She was so lovely :-)

  Hi Claire, I just wanted to say a massive thank you for that session, it was brilliant the students are all inspired and are wasting no time at all! They are currently sat in a session now working on the 'what if' scenario that you suggested.  It was very interesting to hear all about the book writing process, I even found it fascinating as an adult and the students were also star struck when you mentioned their names for the questions, the whole session was lovely to be involved in.  Thank you also for your patience with our numerous technical glitches!  Thank you again, it was brilliant and I would highly recommend the session to anyone,  Kind regards, Laura, Parklane School, Cheshire

Please can you pass on to Claire how enjoyable her virtual visit was with us! The children at St. Christopher's have been so inspired that they have been writing, drawing and acting out their own versions of 'Underpants' stories. Claire was a natural with the children and very kind with her comments and replies to the children - They all wanted to speak to her!!! It particularly made us feel proud that we provided her with a question that she had never been asked before! It was a joy to have her - Thank her so much! Louisa, St Christopher’s School

  Hi Claire, Thank you so much for visiting our classes, when I spoke to some of the children they were so excited that they had actually met a real life author.  Some of them couldn't believe that they had some of your books at home! The teachers really enjoyed it as well and it's given them a chance to discuss with the children about writing for an audience. Lucy, Allington Primary, Kent