A FORMER teacher has returned to school to read children her new book inspired by a rare white stag she spotted in the North-East countryside. Author Sarah Fae, a former teacher at Beaumont Hill Academy in Darlington, visited Marchbank Free School, which is also part of the town s Education Village, to read her book Ghost the Christmas Stag. Pupils were treated to an inaugural story-telling around a roaring camp fire in a magical grotto created in Marchbank s forest school. The story, which is illustrated by Kathryn Holeman, is aimed at inspiring pupils to focus on conservation over commercialism this Christmas and was based on a real experience of coming across a rare wild white roebuck in Northumberland in 2019.
A FORMER teacher has returned to school to read children her new book inspired by a rare white stag she spotted in the North-East countryside. Author Sarah Fae, a former teacher at Beaumont Hill Academy in Darlington, visited Marchbank Free School, which is also part of the town s Education Village, to read her book Ghost the Christmas Stag. Pupils were treated to an inaugural story-telling around a roaring camp fire in a magical grotto created in Marchbank s forest school. The story, which is illustrated by Kathryn Holeman, is aimed at inspiring pupils to focus on conservation over commercialism this Christmas and was based on a real experience of coming across a rare wild white roebuck in Northumberland in 2019.