The Scribble Society
Welcome to the Scribble Society!
Guppy School’s creative writing club is inspired by the Bigg School series by Lisa Williamson. We have created a fantastic resource pack to help you set up your own creative writing club in your school or library.
The pack includes six creative writing sessions aimed at Key Stage 2/3, complete with worksheets and teacher’s notes – perfect for busy school staff to use with minimal preparation.
The Scribble Society can be held as a weekly club or each session can be used as a stand-alone creative writing workshop or lesson. It’s a place where children can have fun and experiment with writing their own stories. All the activities have been designed by Lisa Williamson to inspire pupils and unlock their creativity.
Click on the images below to download the full pack and the teacher’s notes.
UPDATED to include six additional Scribble Society ideas to help your students keep scribbling!
On our Guppy School page we also have a teaching resource containing discussion questions and creative/writing activities for each book in the series!
5 Ways to make the most of the Scribble Society
- Run a weekly club. Create a space where students can have fun and experiment with their writing. This could be held after school or at lunchtime, in a library, classroom or community centre. The activities are clear and accessible for mixed ability groups.
- Use in creative writing lessons. Give children the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their writing skills by using the Scribble Society sessions in the classroom. The engaging activities will inspire imaginative independent writing from both confident and reluctant writers.
- Plan a whole school themed day. Bring your entire school community together for a day that celebrates creativity and storytelling. Choose one of the Scribble sessions, like Scribble an Escape, and challenge students of different ages to respond to the task. Then, have them share and showcase their ideas.
- Use to support transition. The Scribble Yourself activity is ideal for a transition session, to help a teacher get to know their new class. This could be followed up by using the fun collaborative writing prompts in Scribble Some Story Seeds.
You could also read aloud chapter 2 from Best Friends Forever to generate a discussion about how it feels to start at a new school or in a new class.
- Run a story writing competition. Share Lisa’s top five writing tips and challenge students to write their own stories. You could pick a theme, such as school stories, and use Scribble a School as inspiration. Alternatively, you could ask children to write a story about an object after exploring the Scribble a Shoe session.