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Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 14
May 29, 2016
NOT-SO-WINDY NORTH EAST
Back to the lovely North East to a new school (to us!), Windy Nook Primary in Gateshead. What a lovely name! (Windy Nook, I mean, not Gateshead!). And a lovely school too. As it was our first visit, we hit the school hard (not literally!) with Mokee Joe. The audience of around 90 Year 5′s [...]
May 16, 2016
PARK HOUSE PERFECTION
Kath and I left the peace and tranquillity of our Berkshire retreat to visit the nearby Park House School in Newbury. Thank goodness! It proved a great day and the new Year 7′s were a delight to work with. We started the day with all of the Year 7′s in the hall, launching our new book – Kruschmeister, [...]
April 23, 2016
BONEBREAKER TERRITORY
I get so excited driving down towards Norfolk and Suffolk, the area where I spent so many memorable childhood holidays - mainly at the resort of Great Yarmouth. And so Kath and I headed off last Sunday and drove down to Suffolk to the Fritton Country Park, the perfect base for our visits to three schools in the area. The first [...]
BINGLEY AND BURNLEY
We just had enough energy to finish off our Winter school tour at two lovely schools in the North – Bingley Grammar School and Cherry Fold Community Primary. Bingley Grammar School are fast becoming close friends of ours. Jenny Barnes is keen to have us in school firing up her Year 7 pupils and this [...]
March 12, 2016
GLORIOUS GOSFORTH
Kath and I are settled in our lovely Gosforth flat after a brilliant first week working in Gosforth Central and Gosforth Junior High middle schools. We also managed to fit in a return visit to our fans at Seaton Sluice Middle School and we’re still reeling from one of the biggest subsequent book-signing sessions ever! Such was the [...]
March 3, 2016
WORLD BOOK WEEK 2016
The week could not have started better, with two wonderful days at the Wainwright Academy near Mansfield and Staveley Junior School in Chesterfield. Both schools seemed filled with devoted fans of our books, despite the fact that we only visited Wainwright Academy a short while ago for the first time, and Staveley Juniors around eight [...]
February 27, 2016
BONKERS ABOUT BRADFORD!
Our week at Whetley Academy in Bradford was brilliant! We received a fabulous welcome and everyone seemed to remember us from our visit during a snowy week in January last year. This visit focussed on Bonebreaker, Moonwailer and Scabbajack, with lots of references to our short story collection, Ten O’ Clock Caller, during our many [...]
February 14, 2016
HAPPY HALF TERM
After a hugely successful Kent trip followed by two lovely school visits back on our Berkshire doorstep, it’s now time to relax and recharge before our big trip ‘Up North’ to launch our new football-themed scary book, KRUSCHMEISTER. As already reported, we have just re-visited Aylesbury Primary along with three brand new cluster schools down in Maidstone, even taking [...]
February 2, 2016
BERKSHIRE TO KENT
We had a fab time at a school just a stone’s throw from our Berkshire retreat…the lovely Francis Bailey School in Thatcham. It’s a big school and around 255 pupils filled the hall – Years 4 to 6. They proved an amazing audience and Kath and I enjoyed a wonderful day with them. The school [...]
January 21, 2016
LOTS OF FUN FEEDBACK!
Just recently we’ve had lots of lovely feedback from our fans at various schools. It makes our job so much more worthwhile. So keep those e-mails, letters and suchlike flooding in…we can’t get enough of it! We received four wonderful letters from Hassan, Denisa, Salsabil and Iffat of Beech Hill Primary. Apart from the beautiful handwriting, each [...]
