WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAY!

We had a highly enjoyable and inspirational visit from Lui Sit this morning. The children were captivated by her presentation about, Land of the Last Wildcat, and loved hearing all about Lui's background - which ultimately lead to her becoming a published author. Her love of cats and their involvement in the story was, of course, a big plus for a class of 9 and 10 years olds too! As the class teacher, I found her talk engaging, accessible for all and loved seeing the looks of wonder on my class' faces as they hung on Lui's every word and participated actively with her planned activities (eg. creating their own mythical creature). It is hard to believe that this was one of Lui's first school visits; she is a natural! We have continued reading Wildcat together in our class and are already looking forward to subsequent releases! Thank you, Lui!

- Class 5A, Wimbledon Chase Primary School

Lui Sit was a wonderful, engaging visitor to our school, and the children are so excited to read her books!

Thanks for a lovely and interesting visit

Years 3-6, St Matthews CoE Primary School

Thank you to the wonderful author, Lui Sit for visiting to talk about - The Land of the Last Wildcat. Lots of Hotham children are now reading and enjoying this brilliant story. We love that there are lots of references to the our Hotham star values of bravery and resilience too!

-Years 4, 5 & 6 - Hotham Primary School

Pelham were thrilled to be visited by Lui as part of our World Book Day celebrations, who spoke engagingly about her fabulous book 'Land of the Last Wildcat.'  Her talk to our Key Stage Two pupils was wonderful and had a perfect balance of oracy opportunities with question and answers with children and interesting video clips that had the pupils undivided attention.  I have never been approached by so many members of staff before after a guest speaker, to comment on how much they enjoyed it and enquiring as to whether Lui would be back for her next book!  Lui spoke movingly about not seeing herself in books as a child, about representation of multiple-heritage children in fiction and about growing up as a 'latchkey kid;' all which I thought were just important themes to explore and talk to our pupils about.  We also loved hearing about her important work on conservation, which was incredibly moving and I'm sure inspired our pupils!  We would absolutely love to have Lui come back again and highly recommend inviting her to schools for an author visit. 

Emma Berry, Reading Lead, Pelham Primary