Books to Beats

Are you a literacy leader looking for a day that will guarantee to have all your kids buzzing about books at the end? I'm here to help...

If you want to foster a reading culture in your school, this is ideal for you. Ollie provides schools and participants with practical. accessible and transformational musical strategies to maximize reading results and increase reading engagement through the power of music. Together let’s see our children reading for pleasure.

Testimonials:

“What you do with books is so cool! You’re an actual genius! My kids and I love it!”

Miss Mindfulness, March 2021

”Fantastic! I absolutely love your workshops and your rap version of ‘The Day the Crayon’s Quit.’ Kids really respond to it.”
Jodie, Drama Teacher for Premier Academy and Stagecoach, February 2021

“The children absolutely loved the workshops! A perfect introduction to our book week. It was great to see the children enjoying themselves and learning in an exciting and creative way. They are still talking about it now!”

Grace Jeal, Year 5, Teacher/English Coordinator, Wisborough Green Primary, January 2020

“The whole school is talking about your wonderful visit. Everybody loved it! The school is buzzing, the girls loved the books and the teachers were ALL incredibly impressed with the whole day; your musical skills, your classroom skills, your interaction with the girls and ability to quickly adapt if necessary, not to mention your infectious enthusiasm and energy. It was an incredibly positive experience for the Prep School, so thank you very much indeed.”

(Mrs Ceri Hughes, Librarian at Notre Dame Prep School, October 2019)

"Rarely have I seen a young audience so engaged and enraptured. Your beat-boxing and story-telling session was a real highlight of the day, and provided the perfect contract to the other children’s activities that were included as part of BookFest at The Hurlingham Club. Thank you so much for your willingness to participate and your total professionalism as a guest presenter- I’m not surprised that you are in much demand."

Laurence Croneen, Founding Director of Deeoer Blue Limited - Europe & Asia - February 2019

“Lots of positive feedback from the Teachers, about how exciting and engaging it’s been and a really lovely buzz around the school.”

Rosie Loftus (Literacy Leader - Halsford Park Primary, East Grinstead - February 2019)

"We had such a wonderful day with Ollie, he tailored the music to meet our children's needs and made it fun and exciting for all to take part. All the children and adults were so engaged!!! We had wonderful results with our children's writing after Ollie's sessions as he brought the stories to life and gave the children strategies to remember their content through catchy tunes and easily remembered rhymes. A day that we have all been talking about for weeks afterwards, come back soon Ollie!!!!"

Marie Barkley (Class Teacher, Year One, Sudbury Primary School, Wembley - July 2017)