Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 3
April 28, 2022
SMILES ON THE ISLE!
We’re back on the Isle of Wight…Yeahhhh! Shortly after the Easter break Mokee Joe was spotted in Lymington, sneaking aboard a ferry destined for Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Kath and I were not surprised! This monster follows us everywhere; and so it was that the juniors of Dover Park Primary in Ryde were […]
April 24, 2022
CHARMED IN YARM
Back in Yarm for the run-up to the Easter break, and no better place to be than in and around our favourite market town. Our good friend and librarian at Conyers High School, Kim Dawson, arranged our visits and then sadly went down with the dreaded Covid virus! It was so sad visiting her lovely […]
WHITE WOODS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
All three schools in the White Woods Multi Academy Trust, each very local to us, proved that you don’t need to travel far to have a fab time whilst gathering another host of new fans and supporters of our work. Whiston Juniors, Whiston Worrygoose and Dinnington Primary all gave us a great welcome; the […]
April 12, 2022
SOARING UP AT UPLANDS!
A good friend of ours contacted us to tell us she had taken on a new school (at least ‘new’ to her) down in Leicester. I say ‘down’ because it’s literally just a short drive down the busy M1 motorway from our base in South Yorkshire. The school in question is Uplands Juniors L.E.A.D. Academy […]
April 2, 2022
BLOWN AWAY AT ST BARTS!
It was with some trepidation that we visited our lovely granddaughter’s school down in Newbury, Berkshire! The last thing we, or our granddaughter, wanted was an author visit that didn’t come up to expectation! That would have resulted in diminished ‘street cred’ in both parties! We needn’t have worried! The presentation at St Bartholomew’s School […]
March 20, 2022
OOOH…ECK(INGTON)!
Following World Book Week, it was off to not-so-far-away Eckington to meet up with a large audience of Year 7’s at Eckington High School. Helen, the lovely librarian, was there to greet us and before long we were in action telling the life-changing story of how I became an author and created the infamous Mokee […]
March 6, 2022
A BLISTERING WORLD BOOK WEEK!
We decided to visit local schools close to our South Yorkshire base for World Book Week, and what better schools than Sheffield Girls High School, and Birkdale Prep School…both in the Broomhill area of Sheffield and right in the heart of the University ‘buzz’ zone! It was also a return to roots for me and […]
February 16, 2022
HIGH WINDS, STORMS AND MOKEE JOE!
As if the poor people of the Isle of Wight haven’t got enough to put up with, what with stormy weather and high winds, now they have to put up with my infamous Mokee Joe creature causing increasing havoc in schools throughout the island! Broadlea Primary showed why they are such avid readers in the […]
February 13, 2022
FANTASTIC TIME ON THE ISLE OF ‘FRIGHT’!
Well…we’ve reached the end of our first week of school visits on the wonderful Isle of Wight! PHEW! Lanesend, Wroxall, Nettlestone and Broadlea primaries have given us the best time ever! As said in my previous blog, I think the lack of visitors and whole-school assemblies due to Covid restrictions have resulted in even […]
February 9, 2022
EXPLOSIVE START ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT!
Two schools have already given us the best start ever to our ‘Mokee Joe Invasion’ of the Isle of Wight! Lanesend and Wroxall Primary Schools were ab fab hosts and we had the best time ever over the last few days. Mokee Joe was relentless in chasing unsuspecting KS2 pupils around the school hall, whilst […]
