Sarah Webb

Louisa Cameron has become a familiar sight over the pandemic, whizzing through coastal south county Dublin on her bike, its basket stacked high with (...)

Here we go again. Three weeks? Three months? The truth is nobody – including the Department of Education – really knows how long the schools will be c(...)

What happens when you give 12 children’s writers and illustrators too much coffee on a virtual coffee morning? They go and create their own online chi(...)

Time, once spent searching through the school bag for the maths book or missing school tour note only to find last week’s milk and a squashed banana, (...)

School’s out. Two words that would ordinarily spark joy in the hearts of primary school children. But these are not ordinary times and, for 12-year-ol(...)

Sports days, confirmations, school tours and graduations: this year’s sixth class pupils are missing out on key milestones in their young lives. It h(...)

Sarah Webb, the award-winning children’s author and writing coach, has had a busy pandemic. She’s been running writing clubs for several years now and(...)

Sarah Webb is a children’s author as well as a writing coach and teacher. Recently on Twitter she offered to do daily “Creative Bursts”, online writin(...)

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the writer John Boyne has organised an impromptu short-story competition for children, with €7,200 worth of book toke(...)

In a previous incarnation, just before my first child was born, I left my job in the media and trained as a Montessori teacher. The plan was that I wo(...)