Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 10
January 30, 2018
LIVING IN WALL, BY THE WALL!
After visiting two great local Berkshire schools, Spurcroft Primary in Thatcham and Springfield Primary in Reading, Kath and I headed back up the A1 to Hexham. We moved into a 300 year-old cottage in the appropriately named village of Wall, just a short distance from the famous Hadrian’s Wall. As soon as we arrived the […]
January 24, 2018
DUKE OF KENT TAKEN BY STORM!
Kath and I chose to arrive at the Duke of Kent School, deep in the Surrey hills, from the relatively nearby town of Dorking. We travelled there on Sunday afternoon and stayed overnight in readiness for our school visit the following Monday morning. Thank goodness! The threatening weather forecast proved correct and we drove the 9 […]
January 12, 2018
PERFECT AT PARKLANDS
Kath and I were lucky enough to be invited to an ‘outstanding’ school in Leeds. One of the teachers, Ms Huby, had worked with us at Rawmarsh Rosehill in Rotherham, and since moving to Parklands Primary, she thought it would be good to invite us there. …Well, we had a great time there presenting our Mokee […]
December 17, 2017
BIG CHRISTMAS FINALE
After launching the new Mokee Joe book 6 in South Yorkshire, on our return to our Southern base our first job was to call in to New Scotland Hill Primary in Sandhurst. This was a visit carried over from last term and our son, Simon, had raved on about it during a visit of his own. We soon […]
November 20, 2017
MOKEE JOE 6 LAUNCH!
Well, at last, the final Mokee Joe book is out! Without doubt it’s the most exciting and action-packed book of the series and it’s called: Mokee Joe: Scourge of the Emirates. …And where better than Dubai for the action to take place – including the final battle on top of the tallest building in the […]
November 5, 2017
MORE HIGHS AT DENBIGH HIGH!
Our last school visit before a short break was with our good friends at Denbigh High School in Luton. It proved to be another very tiring, but fulfilling day, working with Year 7’s in the morning and two workshops in the afternoon. The presentation centred around the Scabbajack and Kruschmeister books and was very well received – the […]
November 4, 2017
HIGH SCHOOL HALLOWEEN HIGHS!
As Halloween approached rapidly, Kath and I made our way to one of favourite schools in Huntingdon,Cambridgeshire – St Peter’s. I have been Patron of Reading at this wonderful school over the past year and enjoyed every minute of it. The object of the exercise was to build an author/school relationship to enthuse reading and inspire […]
CARRFIELD, TEMPLE NORMANTON, RAVENFIELD
Leaving behind the majestic countryside of South Oxfordshire, we headed off on a familiar journey up the M1 towards our Northern roots in South Yorkshire. Many of our school visits arise via word of mouth, and our next port of call was down to a teacher-friend of ours from East Dene School. Andy Morton, now moved to Carrfield Primary School at Bolton-on-Dearne, had sung our […]
ON THE BANKS OF THE LEAFY THAMES!
After the delights of Northumbria, it was time to sample the delights of an ideally-situated beautiful prep school on the banks of the Thames. Moulsford Prep are good friends of ours and it always proves a real pleasure to get in front of a packed, all-boy audience, and spook them with my scary books! This time it […]
October 6, 2017
NORTHUMBRIA PART 2
Our time in this lovely area continues to provide great school visits for us. St Joseph’s is a middle school I visited over eight years ago, but still with vivid memories of performing my early Mokee Joe presentation there and it being well received. This time I presented the Scabbajack and Kruschmeister books to a huge […]
