St James School, Aranui, Christchurch

Monday 23rd August 2010

Another constructive session with the group at St James School.

We now have a strong story to work with to use as a basis for the "Growing an Edible Garden" book. I will do some editing on the story this week before our next session on Friday. At the moment the story is too long and we have to add planting, growing and harvesting information and as well as illustrations, diagrams and photographs. This technical information is to be fitted to the fictitious story.

The process of organizing all of the material that needs to go into the book is some thing that we addressed today. Everyone worked on a storyboard for the 16 page book and then we made a dummy. Next Friday we hope to have all the text printed out so that we can do a layout and see what sort of spaces we will have left for the illustrative material. There seems to be plenty to keep all members of the group busy. The children are interested and happy with the project.

With only two sessions to go we still have a lot of work to do but Judy Parry has been doing a lot of work with the group when I'm not there and if she continues this, a good result is likely.

I am hoping that when I finish at the school we will have a finished past-up of the whole book so that it can be scanned and reproduced at a later date.

Gavin Bishop