Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 6
March 2, 2020
WORLD BOOK WEEK
It’s that special time of the year! As usual we are very busy with school bookings and our chosen location for 2020 World Book Week is the Leighton Buzzard / Bedford area. Day 1 started today at the Gilbert Inglefield Middle School in Leighton Buzzard. Kath and I were up bright and early in our […]
February 9, 2020
POPPY WARRIOR STORMS ONWARDS!
Two more Delta schools enjoyed our Poppy Warrior presentation – Hatfield Woodhouse and Crookesbroom Primaries. Both schools were re-visits and proved just as enjoyable as the first time. The audiences were relatively small, but this only added to the intimacy of the story-telling and the sessions passed only too quickly. We sold and signed lots […]
January 26, 2020
FAB START TO NEW YEAR!
Kath and I have had one of the best starts to the New Year ever! We kicked off the new term in Kent, working at three schools, Aylesford Primary (well-known to us), followed by visits to Brookfield and Ditton Juniors (new schools to us). All three visits proved a huge success. We chose to present the Mokee […]
December 1, 2019
HOME-GROWN MAGIC!
As the end of term approaches and Christmas draws ever nearer, it was so good to be on home ground to visit my old primary school, Redscope Juniors, and the nearby Greasbrough Primary just a few days later. I love being back at Redscope! All by boyhood memories come flooding back – I even remember the school window […]
BACK DOWN BEDFORD WAY
The next week found us hurtling down the M1 again to spend three days at Linslade Middle School just outside Leighton Buzzard. It’s a fabulous school and provides plenty of willing fans for our books – almost 700 Year 5 to 8’s in total! Presentations all round! Mokee Joe with Year 5 and Poppy Warrior […]
STILL UP NORTH!
Three more schools close to home – Simpson’s Lane at Knottingley, Brinsworth Howarth Primary, very close to our South Yorkshire base, and finally to Dronfield Stonelow Juniors (old friends of ours!) The new book ‘Poppy Warrior’ was well-received at all three schools. Brinsworth Howarth Primary was the smallest of the schools, and it proved to be […]
November 10, 2019
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE!
Three very different schools with one thing in common – they were all a pleasure to visit. First stop was a Delta Academy School – Kingston Park Academy. This was our first visit so we presented our Mokee Joe series to around 120 KS2 pupils. It was great fun chasing a ‘victim’ around the school hall again. […]
CHILTERN DELIGHTS!
Kath and I visited two of our favourite schools in Luton, Denbigh High School and Chiltern Academy. These are part of the Chiltern Academy Trust, a trust which continues to grow and provide us with an increasing number of delightful schools to work with. On this occasion we spent the best part of four days working in […]
October 19, 2019
POPPY WARRIOR LEADS THE WAY!
After the delights of Hexham, Kath and I made our way out to Humberside to visit two lovely Delta schools, Estcourt and Willows Primary Academies. It was our second visit to Estcourt in Hull, and it turned out to be just as successful as the first. Our ‘Estcourt fans’ were ready to move on from Mokee […]
October 6, 2019
POPPPY WARRIOR INVADES HEXHAM
Three schools in and around Hexham made for one of the best weeks of school visits that Kath and I can remember! Hexham, Ovingham and St Josephs Middle Schools provided fab audiences of Years 5 to 8, who fortunately for us, seemed captivated by our new book – POPPY WARRIOR. The presentation provides scary spooky moments to tie in […]
