Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 15
December 19, 2015
CHRISTMASSY SCHOOL VISITS
It was a real treat to finish off our hugely successful term back in South Yorkshire! On our way up we called in at the famous Jack Hill’s Road Stop and partook of our first mince pies of the season (free!) with a steaming mug of tea! First visit was to Swinton Community School in [...]
December 5, 2015
SUNNY SOUTH EAST
What a fabulous week! It was with some concern and one eye on the weather forecast that we headed off to the dreaded M25 and made our way round to the South East of our island. The Sunday traffic on the A12 into deepest Essex proved a relaxing and stress-free journey and we were soon settled [...]
November 25, 2015
BRIGHTON ROCKS
Kath was ‘grabbed’ by Simon and his wife to babysit Will, our lovely grandson, so I headed off to Luton again on my own to visit Dallow School. This was a first visit and would you believe I turned up a week earlier than expected. No problem…the lovely head teacher (Linda), had everything re-organised and sorted within [...]
November 14, 2015
BEECH HILL BLISS
Kath and I have just spent an entire week working in one school – Beech Hill Primary School in Luton. This school has a reading culture like you wouldn’t believe. The staff and pupils treat it as completely ‘normal’ to allow their lives to revolve around books, which makes their school environment a total paradise for [...]
November 8, 2015
NORTH EASTERLY MAGIC!
Kath and I love going up to the North East. Apart from the fact that her brother lives up there in Ponteland (on the posh Darras Hall Estate), the schools in the area are all fab and know us and our books extremely well. Our great friend, Jon Roys, was waiting to greet us at [...]
October 24, 2015
KRUSCHMEISTER
The new book, Kruschmeister, is finished and soon to be on its way to publication. To make life even more exciting, we have just had the go ahead to launch my new super-scary, football-themed book at Rotherham’s New York Stadium. Rotherham United are struggling to win their matches in the Championship League at the moment, but [...]
GOOD OLD ROTHERHAM ROOTS
We have just had the most wonderful time visiting three schools in and around my home town of Rotherham. Dronfield Stonelow are old friends and it was brilliant to be back with them again. We did our updated full-blown Mokee Joe presentation in front of all of KS2 and it went down a storm. In [...]
October 13, 2015
SUFFOLK – HUNTINGDON – LUTON
Having somehow lost the last blog, I’m now re-typing it and hope I can remember all the great things I had to say about the three amazing schools involved! Here goes… First call was to the fab school where I have the honour of being the ‘Patron of Reading’ – Northfield St Nicholas Primary, near [...]
October 12, 2015
LOST BLOGS!
I can’t believe the last seven blogs have been lost! Such is the mysterious nature of the computer! Apologies to those lovely schools who featured in those blogs. I’m going to re-write the most recent blog entitled ‘TWO FAB WEEKS!’, but the other six most recent blogs may be lost forever! PJM
October 7, 2015
TWO FAB WEEKS!
Kath and I are finally back home again. We’ve just spent two fab weeks touring schools in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Luton. First call was to our good friends at Northfield St Nicholas in Lowestoft, Suffolk. I am proud to be ‘Patron of Reading’ at this school and this was my fourth visit. To say we [...]
