St. Francis Primary win a visit from Steve Cole

On 19th October 2011 we were lucky enough to host a visit by the exuberant Steve Cole. Even luckier because the event came about by one of our pupils winning the visit for designing a new Astrosaur, a Munchersauraus. Emily Brine in year 5 became an official Astrosaur Superfan and won a complete collection of Astrosurs and Cows In Action books, all signed by Steve.

Emily said “it was fun and exciting to be there with him and I feel very lucky and privileged, also it was exciting to get 39 books!”
Steve wrote on his blog “And what a lovely school St. Francis is! As soon as I walked through the door the pupils were pointing and asking “Is that Steve Cole?” the whole school knew I was coming, the school newspaper editors were interviewing me and my robot pen received much admiration from passing children” He also says “it was really a fun event and afterwards the queue for books to be signed went on long after home time.”
Other comments from our children include “Funny, exciting and cool”, “weird and crazy”,” bonkers, fascinating and imaginative”, “awesome, hilarious, wacky and hyper”. I think it’s safe to say that everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day.

Read more about Steve's account of his visit ( and his Jammie Dodgers) on his website http://www.stevecolebooks.co.uk/ and go to his blog.