Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

Five Funny and Fabulous Sessions at Discovery College!

Thank you all you panda-loving possums at Discovery College  for making Pin Yin and I SO welcome today! It was wonderful to see you all again and I KNOW that all of you will be busy writing panda poems for my Clever Competition!! Just click the Clever Competition Tab on the top right for all the details! And a special thank you to dedicated librarians Leanne Sercombe and Dianne McKenzie for inviting me!

And thank you Leanne for such a fantastic display!

Happy Year of the Panda to Canadian International School!

Hello all you clever kids at CDNIS! It was great to see you again today! And I’m looking forward to all your Panda Poems in my Clever Competition, so you’d better get cracking!

Another fantastic day at Shatin Junior School!

What a great day that was! Today Pin Yin Panda and I had three more sessions at SJS, meeting more of the fabulous kids and staff! Huge thanks to Karen Hubbard for inviting me to the school, and to absolutely everyone for making me and my Panda feel so welcome!

Hello Lantau International School!

Wow that was fun! Five fabulous sessions at Lantau International School, Mui Wo, where birds sing in the trees, buffaloes cross the road, snakes visit the playgrounds and the kids are just FANTASTIC! I had such a great time – I hope you had at least half as much fun as I did! Here are the feisty Grade 3s with their terrific teachers above! Thanks Pam Venter (in the red scarf below) for inviting me!

Thank you Crystal Kwok at RTHK!

If you’d like to hear me chatter on to Crystal Kwok on RTHK3 this afternoon all about Pin Yin Panda, my kids, my childhood and the importance of reading lots and lots of books, just go to the following link! Thanks to Crystal and producer Elena Krotman for a fun interview!

http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/kwok_talk&d=2012-02-15&p=5160&e=&m=episode

Panda-monium ruled at CAIS today!

It was all fun and games at Christian Alliance International School today when I visited the fantastic kids of Grades One to Three – we had a great time with Pin Yin Panda, lots of questions about the Chinese Zodiac, and a challenging Poetry Workshop for the Grade Threes who unscrambled limericks, spotted Haikus and even wrote a wicked rhyming poem about Destroying the School! But it was all in good fun! Here’s me with lovely librarian Connie Yee, a loyal supporter for many years…

And with some of the clever writers of Grade 3 in my Introduction to Poetry Workshop!

A fine time at Shatin Junior School!

Hello to all those fabulous Grade 4s and cute Grade 1s at SJS – it was great to meet you on Monday! I look forward to meeting the Grade 2s, 3s and 5s on next Monday!

Pin Yin Panda rules at GSIS!

Hello to all you GSIS believers…it’s the Year of the Panda…RIGHT!! Today Pin Yin totally convinced the Primary School kids that it was HER year this year…or was it just the promise of free bookmarks? Bribery will get a panda anywhere…. A big thank you to the very funny and fabulous Megan Lindsay, Head of Library, and her wonderful assistant Stella Tong!

And here are some of the GSIS kids – and a ghost!!!

Thank you Quarry Bay School!

A big thank you to Stephanie Gilchrist, Head of Quarry Bay Learning Centre, for another fun day of writing workshops with the great Grade 4s on Wednesday! Here’s Stephanie and I and some fabulous Quarry Bay School readers!

It’s the Year of the Panda at Renaissance College!

Or at least Pin Yin Panda thinks it is! Pin Yin and I had a fantastic day today with all the fabulous kids and teachers of Renaissance College HK, from their gorgeous Grade 1s, all the way to their savvy Grade 6s! Here are some of my lovely fans who tracked me down in the library for some autographs!:

And here is the lovely Ada, one of the library team who looked after me all day, and now knows Pin Yin’s story by heart! Ada featured Pin Yin Panda on her storyboard honouring Risk Takers!

Last but never least are the Library Team themselves, headed by my dear friend Andrea Walker – thanks for such a happy, warm Renaissance College welcome!