You Vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up

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The best writers are often said to be enthusiastic life-long readers, and that’s definitely the case for children’s author SF Said. A passionate campaigner for literacy, libraries and reading for pleasure, he is the writer behind Varjak Paw and its sequel The Outlaw Varjak Paw, a duology about a cat who learns a secret martial art. Said will share his love of stories with us, explaining how he went from being a young reader and lover of books to an award-winning author and campaigner for stories for all.

Music is everything! Join author, broadcaster and educator Jeffrey Boakye as he introduces his first middle-grade novel, Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer. You’ll meet Kofi and his best friend Kelvin who find themselves on a mischievous, money-making ’90s adventure. Learn about iconic ’90s artists, find out how to write a rap and discover why Kofi and Kelvin are about to have their best summer ever. The nation’s favourite doctor is here to inspire us all to love ourselves, however our brains work. He’ll show us how to train our brain and become the best we can be in this empowering and inclusive session. Dr Ranj not only tells us how the brain works but also shows you how to train it to get better at stuff you find difficult. Following his advice will help you learn how to make the most of your brain and how to keep your mind happy and healthy. He’ll also share top tips on the right foods to fuel your brain and your mental wellbeing from his brand new book How To Be a Boy: And Do It Your Own Way. Bear Grylls's lessons from the wild are transposed to everyday settings, helping kids develop emotional resilience. Watching Bear Grylls as he jumps out of helicopters and crosses white-water rapids on tree trunks, you’d be forgiven for thinking the TV adventurer is superhuman. The way this show works, Bear has to do different versions of the same thing. So there’s a sandbox, but then you also have to intervene to do multiple versions, right? How did you decide when to intervene?I was at a Scouting event the other day and a guy came up and said, ‘I was one of the people who helped select you as Chief Scout. I’m an old man now, but 15 years on, you don’t look any different.’ Kids today are presented with new challenges all the time. They face an uncertain future and are under constant pressure to thrive in an overwhelming and fast-paced world.

For the episodes that have more of a story frame, like the one where he has to rescue the dog, how much did Bear know going in? Did he know where the dog was going to be, or did he figure that out in real time? Mae’n bleser gennym gyflwyno’r Rhaglen Ysgolion yn fyw eleni, gyda digwyddiadau wyneb yn wyneb i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnod Allweddol 2 yn cael eu rhedeg ar ddydd Iau 25 Mai ac i ddisgyblion yng Nghyfnodau Allweddol 3 a 4 ar ddydd Gwener 26 Mai. Over the years our friends have gone, ‘Wow, are you OK with your kids doing that?’ But I don’t think we empower our children when we try to strip risk from their lives. What we do is make their risk-management muscle weak. You’ve got to teach them how to have good instinct – when to push, when to hold, when to just have a little feel. These are all key skills for life.

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For Bear, this includes a very public U-turn from evangelical vegan to committed carnivore. “Our bodies don’t deal with being plant-based, in my experience, but they do deal well with animal products. The experience gave me a real fire to go out there once my rehab was done. I remember thinking, ‘If you’ve got the chance, don’t be scared to follow your dreams – just go for it. You might fail big, sure, but you have to try.’” I’ve always loved bringing my sons up to embrace risk, embrace danger. I want them to become ninjas at handling everything.” We knew you should probably not go out on that ice. Bear was like, “If you crawled, you’d be alright, but I wouldn’t walk across it.” And we were like, “In this case, Bear, the viewer is making a mistake.” So he walked across it and eventually, sure enough, he fell through.

A hoffech chi wybod sut y mae cŵn yn siarad yn Gymraeg, Saesneg ac Almaeneg, neu sut mae dweud 'mae eisiau bwyd arnaf i’ yn Sbaeneg ac Almaeneg? Bydd y gweithdy amlieithog hwn, o dan arweiniad y Prifardd Mererid Hopwood, yn canolbwyntio ar rythm geiriau a brawddegau, gan gyflwyno tair neu bedair iaith ar yr un pryd. Drwy’r sesiwn chwareus hwn, bydd disgyblion yn mwynhau dysgu ieithoedd newydd a dysgu sut y mae gwrando’n ofalus ar rythm ac odl.

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Enjoy two days of fun and inspiration with exciting writers and thought-provoking performances for young people. Explore an imagining of the before and after of global warming with Emma Carroll. Her latest time-travelling adventure suggests that the future has a lot to learn from the past… It’s the near future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. For Polly, it’s the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down. Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt’s eco lakeside house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up and, as the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges... He shares the life lessons he’s learned along the way, and how the skills needed to survive in the wild can be used in everyday life. We spent millions of years evolving to eat meat and our diets have changed in the last 50 years – I feel humans aren’t designed for that.

I don’t know. Am I going to be doing this when I’m 70? Are you going to be doing this when you’re 70? What I meant by the improvisation was, whether Bear fell off the log or not, or whether he made it across on the vine, we didn’t know which way was going to be right and which was going to be wrong until after he did it. So then we’d say, “Okay, that worked, so this moves us on to the next obstacle.” Or, “Shoot, that really screwed up. This is a dead end for the viewer.” I think you always naturally worry about your kids and want them to learn from your mistakes, but generally I would say I’ve learned more from them than they’ve probably learned from me,” says Bear, who has just launched The Bear Grylls Adventure, an activity centre in Birmingham, where teens are encourage to have a go at everything from axe throwing to shark diving. You’re out there for five days shooting one of these stories. What are the most challenging moments? Do you want to make more episodes of this show? As you were filming it, were you thinking about other scenarios to try?Did Bear end up liking the multiple versions? It feels like it could cramp his improvisational style. It’s a combination of Bear and the medics’ judgment call. You could make this show as extreme as you want to, and it could be very dangerous for the host. You could kill the host if you wanted to. We just had to draw that line. When Bear told us, for instance, “If I was really out here, I would figure out a way to start a fire, and I would likely survive. But do we really want to film for the next three hours, me freezing and hopefully starting a fire?” Also, with Netflix, we didn’t want to depict Bear failing mortally. We didn’t want to scare kids. So rescue by helicopter was always an option. When we get to that line when we’d ask Bear if he had any options left, he’d say, “Not really, dude.” And we’d say, “cool, let’s film a rescue sequence.” It’s this weird straddling of the two, right? Obviously the dog wasn’t really stranded. We created that sandbox for Bear to play in. Bear didn’t know where the dog was, so we as the producers tried to stay one step ahead of Bear. It’s much easier for him to improvise if there is some uncertainty. As we put obstacles in front of him, we’d say, “What are two ways you could do this?” And off he’d go. BEAR GRYLLS OBE, has become one of the world’s most recognised faces of survival and outdoor adventure. Talented poet Matt Goodfellow leads a high-energy event, lively with creativity and wit. You’ll love exploring his poems on a range of themes, from the downright silly to the sensitive. Bright Bursts of Colour is a bumper poetry collection perfect for Key Stages 1 & 2 – from a special kind of badger to a map of the stars via book people who hide in the margins, these verses will delight and enthuse you. He used to be a teacher, but these days Matt poets all over the UK – and now he’s coming to help you write your own poems.