Matt Dickenson joins FCC team
Faringdon Community College is pleased to announce that award winning writer and film maker Matt Dickinson has joined us as ‘Writer in Residence’ for the coming academic year.
‘This is a great opportunity to help the school focus on writing confidence,’ Matt comments, ‘During my visits we will be doing a range of exciting creative writing projects with years 7,8 and 9. We will also be focussing on the benefits of reading for pleasure and working in tandem with the excellent library team and the staff devoted to literacy improvement.’
Matt is the award winning author of popular books for young readers including; The Popcorn Eating Squirrels, Mortal Chaos, The Everest Files, Lie Kill Walk Away and many short stories. His non-fiction book The Death Zone is a GCSE set text with the AQA exam board.
In addition to helping the school to turbo-charge our literacy projects, Matt will also be sharing his stories of adventure from Mt Everest, Antarctica, the Amazon Rainforest and the Sahara Desert.
‘Having a taste for adventure is a wonderful journey of enrichment,’ Matt writes, ‘I will be working with the Duke of Edinburgh team at Faringdon along with the Geography department and P.E to focus on goal setting, team work and leadership skills in the big wide world.’