CHILDREN at a Worcestershire primary school became published authors last week, as their school participated in global literacy initiative pobble.com.

The website offers a worldwide classroom wall to share work from countries all around the world.

Children and teachers at St. Clement’s Primary, in Worcester, had their own Pobble day when members of Pobble’s literacy team, including teacher Adam Ormrod, joined staff for a fun-filled day of creative writing, before teachers pressed the button to share the children’s work with the world.

Year 6 teacher Sarah Davies said: “My year 6 class were engaged and on task throughout this pacy and inspiring session.

"They are looking forward to seeing their writing published on the Pobble website.”

Pobble teacher Adam Ormrod said: “From the first pieces of work that were shared by a class, to the new stories being added every few minutes from around the world, the impact on children and teachers is the same.

“For children, they are getting that awesome piece of work they’ve just carefully written published and shared with the world, which could not be more exciting.

"And for teachers, we’re building a global library of ideas, content and resource.

"Pobble is on a global literacy mission and like some of the very cool stories on the platform about astronauts – this is really capturing imaginations and taking off.”

Pobble is already being used in more than 100 countries and has been endorsed by school leaders and politicians, and celebrated by children’s authors like Anthony Horowitz and Michael Morpurgo.

Evidence shows Pobble helps to accelerate progress in literacy by up to two times the expected rate and gives teachers free access to tens of thousands of examples of written work to inspire their lessons.

It also gives teachers a platform to share planning and ideas and enables them to share great work beyond the confines of the classroom.