Author, Spoken Artist, Youth Worker, Northerner

“Nathan Parker visited our school to work with some of our most underperforming pupils, in terms of their attainment in narrative writing. From the first word he said, he had them hooked. He encouraged all the pupils to make links to their own lives when thinking of setting and characters and modelled how he had done this effectively in his own published book by sharing with them some gripping extracts. This simple, yet clever approach meant that some of the pupils produced some of the most authentic narrative writing I have ever read from them. Whilst they were writing, he also circulated the room giving every pupil some personalised advice and feedback, which they acted upon to make improvements to their work. Nathan is incredibly relatable; he is open, honest and has a brilliant manner with the pupils. For these reasons, our youngsters wanted to impress him, with some of them even choosing to come back at lunch time to carry on working with him! All the English teachers here at Millfield agree that he had a positive impact on the work of our youngsters, and we look forward to working with him again in the future.”