From The Tyne to The Seine and back again...
Welcome to our exciting website which celebrates children's creative reading in the UK and France. Schools from North and South Tyneside and Epinay-sur-Seine in Paris have come together to share their reading experiences with children's authors and illustrators Korky Paul and Rob Lewis. You will be able to have a look at what the schools have been up to during the author visits and to see the work that's been produced by the children before and after the visits. Have a good look around our website and please feel free to make a comment about what you see.
Coming soon:-
Korky and Rob visit meet children in Epinay-sur-Seine, French children's authors and illustrators visiting schools in Epinay and the UK, Star of the Sea RC Primary and Hedworthfield visit Gateshead City Learning Centre
Project News
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The Author - Elisabeth Brami
Elisabeth Brami was born in Warsaw in 1946 and grew up in France. After finishing her studies of Human Sciences, she became a psychologist. But in 1990, married and mother of three children, she decided to write books for children, publishing for Bordas. Some of her books have been translated in the United States, Germany and Japan.
Children adore her simple style, with simple words and simple plots which are always funny.
The Storyteller - Gary Cordingley
Gary lives near Newcastle Upon Tyne and has been telling stories & performing theatre in and around the North East for over 10 years. Gary was a fire-fighter with the MOD Fire Service before giving it all for a career in performing arts. He first encountered storytelling in the form of Taffy Thomas who was performing in a small village in Cumbria. Gary couldn't recall ever having had a story told to him and found it spellbinding. He now tells his stories to audiences of all ages in schools, museums, libraries and numerous other venues both indoors and out. His stories are often humorous and mainly traditional, coming from all around the world.
The Illustrator - Korky Paul
Korky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951. He studied art at the
Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years
working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts
it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and designing
educational books in Greece. He then spent some time working for an
advertising agency in London and Los Angeles and then studied film
animation at Cal Arts in California.
Korky Paul is married with two children. He works in Oxford but spends the summer living it up in Greece.
The Author - Rob Lewis
Born in a respectable London suburb in July 1962, little did the world know what was to come... Even in the early days at school in Bath, dangerous creative tendencies were beginning to show. His English teacher had to mark stories that took up whole exercise books. Academic work promised Oxford University but parties and laziness resulted in only one ‘O’ Level in art! In 1990 he was finally taken away to the remote Welsh hills for therapy at an isolated seven acre smallholding... He became the pastor of a church for four years but now he leads a simple life gardening, playing music and mucking around on the computer. They even let him out from time to time to entertain children in schools and libraries.
ictGateshead
Here at Gateshead City Learning Centre we're pleased to be involved in the project as technical partners. We're responsible for this, the project website and we'll be hosts for 2 whole day sessions with Star of the Sea, Headworthfield, Korky and Rob. They'll be visiting the CLC, working together with us and getting their hands on web radio, podcasting and chromakey tv technologies to create content for this site.
The Northern Children's Book Festival 2008
Tyne2Seine is closely linked to the annual Northern Children's Book Festival. 2008 is the 25th anniversary of The Northern Children's Book Festival. Each year seems to bring a bigger, better Festival and this year promises to be even more spectacular. This year there will be over thirty of the UK's leading authors, poets, illustrators and storytellers. They will lead sessions in libraries and schools across the North East, reaching up to 20,000 of the region's children.
Epinay-sur-Seine, Paris
Ecole Jean Jaures 1
Ecole Romain Rolland
La ville d’Epinay sur Seine est très fière de participer au 25ème anniversaire du Festival du Livre de Jeunesse du Nord de l’Angleterre. Pour la première fois, et grâce au projet d’apprentissage de la lecture intitulé « Tyne2Seine », quatre classes primaires de la ville d’Epinay sur Seine (située en région parisienne), vont accueillir deux illustrateurs anglais célèbres : Rob Lewis et Korky Paul.
La rencontre aura lieu le 16 octobre. En attendant, les quatre institutrices et leurs élèves préparent leur venue. Ce site est l’occasion pour eux de vous faire part de leurs sentiments, de leurs idées, de leur travail, à travers des témoignages, des photos, des reportages filmés et des dessins !
Les enfants sont à la fois fiers et excités… mais ils se demandent comment ils vont faire pour comprendre des illustrateurs qui ne parlent pas leur langue ! Les dessins et l’imagination de tous seront sans doute le meilleur moyen de communiquer et de relier le Tyne à la Seine !
Savez-vous où se trouve Epinay-sur-Seine ?
C’est une ville française, située dans la banlieue nord de Paris. Comme la ville de South Tyneside et de North Tyneside l’histoire d’Epinay est liée à son fleuve. Epinay borde la rive droite de la Seine.
Quiz
Savez vous que la Seine fait 776 km de long. Elle se déverse dans la Manche, bras de mer qui sépare l’Angleterre de la France.
Read all Bibliotheque Jules Valles items
Read all Ecole Juan Juares 1 items
Star of the Sea RC Primary School
Star of the Sea is a Roman Catholic Primary School in Whitley Bay, England. We are about 1 mile (1.5km) from the North Sea and 9 miles (14.5 km) from the City of Newcastle. Our school badge shows our local lighthouse which is called St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The school was opened in 1968 – it is our 40th birthday soon – and was made bigger in 2005/6. We have @ 400 pupils from 3 years up to 11 years.
There are 15 classes, with each teacher supporting our Headteacher – Mr Willcock. There are lots of other staff in school too. We have a whiteboard in every classroom, connected to a computer and the internet. Some of our older classrooms also have the old black and white boards. We love the school and our local area and are very proud of it.
Hedworthfield Primary School
Hedworthfield Primary School is a small primary school in a semi-rural location on the outskirts of Jarrow in South Tyneside. We have around 190 pupils in our main school and 24 children in our Speech and Language unit. We have 10 classes, and both morning and afternoon nursery classes. Our children are aged from 3 to 11 years old. At Hedworthfield we enjoy and achieve. We work hard during lesson time and have great fun at all of the after school clubs available. We are very proud of our school and hope you enjoy reading about the exciting project we are involved in.
Video Vault
Korky Paul interviewed at
Gateshead CLC
21.11.08 (WMV)
Rob Lewis interviewed at
Gateshead CLC
21.11.08 (WMV)
Elisabeth Brami and Gary Cordingley at
The Customs House
06.11.08 (WMV)
Tyne2Seine at Gateshead City Learning Centre
Les Poissons d'Epinay
Rob Lewis and Korky Paul in Epinay
The children at Bibliothèque Jules Vallès
Korky Paul at Star of The Sea
Korky Paul at Star of the Sea RC Primary School
15.09.08 (WMV)
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Contact Us
Epinay
Anne Josse
anne(dot)josse(at)epinay-sur-seine(dot)fr
North Tyneside Libraries
Gaye Jamieson
Senior Librarian (Children's Services)
0191 200 6974 / 7339
gaye(dot)jamieson(at)northtyneside(dot)gov(dot)uk
South Tyneside Libraries
Kathryn Armstrong
Young People's Services Coordinator
South Tyneside Libraries
kathryn(dot)armstrong(at)southtyneside(dot)gov(dot)uk
Website
Peter Bolger
Gateshead Grid for Learning Manager
0191 460 2900
pbolger(at)ictgateshead(dot)org
Funding and Support
Thanks guys. It was a fantastic day. Well done Peter, Kathryn and Gaye for making it happen and all
What a great day we all had at Gateshead CLC. Love the photos and looking forward to seeing lots mor
What a terrific day I spent with Rob Lewis and the budding animators and staff from Hebworthfield Pr
Bonjour les enfants! Il est beau de travailler avec vous à la bibliothèque Jules Valles. J'espère q
rob lewis came to our school a cupple of weeks ago and did some art with us he has inspierd me to dr
Hi year 6, Thanks for all your letters. I'm glad you had such a good day. You did some brilliant wo