The Library team are always looking for ways to inspire students to read more. This month they arranged a visit to the school by international best-selling author C J Daugherty
Christi Daugherty is the best-selling author of The Night School, a series of thrillers for young adults. Christi visited the school along with her husband Jack Jewers, an award-winning director. Together they have created the Night School web series, the first British web series based on a young adult book. Christi spoke to Y7 students about her path to becoming an author and about the importance of writing in everything that we do.
Students were enthralled by her real-life stories of working for the Home Office in counter-terrorism and asked her lots of questions about what inspired her to write, how she comes up with the ideas behind her stories – especially the end of the book and what she would have become if she had not become an author. At the end of her talk, she signed copies of her books for students.
After her visit, her husband Jack sent the school an email saying
CJ had a great time, as did I, and it was a pleasure to meet you and the kids. Please pass on to them that they really impressed us with their questions too.
