Putney High School opens doors to pupils from Granard, Brandlehow and Hotham schools
 Robin Steven's new book The Guggenheim Mystery |
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Putney High Junior School will be welcoming author, Robin Stevens to talk at its Performing Arts Centre on Thursday 5th October and have invited three local primary schools to come too.
Keen to share their fantastic facilities with local state schools, Putney High School has invited local primary schools, Granard, Brandlehow and Hotham to join them to hear Robin Stevens talk about her latest book, The Guggenheim Mystery. Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college. She has been making up stories all her life. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, went on to study crime fiction at university, and then became a children's book editor. She is now a full-time writer and the creator of the bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Robin lives in London with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.
This initiative is very much in the spirit “Putney Ideas Exchange” (PIE) run by the Senior School, which exposes students to individuals and organisations that they would not otherwise have access to, providing them with the opportunity to extend their thinking and challenge their ideas.
On 9 October, Putney High School’s PIE₂ event will take the idea even further, again welcoming local state schools (Ark Putney and The Priory CofE) to step with them completely off curriculum, to face unanswerable questions and explore ideas they’ve never before encountered.
They will be sharing clips from the talks through a twitter feed, @putneyhigh, giving the wider community an opportunity to engage and be similarly inspired.
Suzie Longstaff, Headmistress at Putney High School, pictured above said: “The Putney Ideas Exchange allows pupils to sharpen their intellectual agility and expand their horizons.”
September 29, 2017
