I really want to thank you for publishing the story The King’s Sentence, it’s really inspiring… My daily work is based on contact with children – you are the spark in my classes.

I have absolutely loved using this lesson. It’s been so much fun to try with a wide range of classes and ages. I have used it with year 1 all the way to year 6 (slightly adapted for the older ones) but they loved it. The response from the children has been fabulous and I loved watching what they have come up with. I definitely recommend trying it. Such a great lesson to engage a whole class and they really enjoyed learning sign language too.

‘I took two classes of year 3 students through ‘The King’s Sentence’ on Friday. They absolutely loved it and it has provided them and their English teacher with a platform to explore storytelling writing. Your imagination is inspirational!’

‘I have been doing the story with Y4,Y5 and Y6. They thought the bathtub/nostril part was very funny. I think it has been a great lesson on many levels, including that they understood and explored the importance of language, practised expressing themselves through their bodies, improvisation and pair work and thought about what is important in life.’