Category: School & Library Visits

  • Blundell's School – Tiverton

    Having been in Scotland last weekend and the beginning of last week I returned home very tired and spent Wednesday recovering, doing family stuff and sorting out the things that had piled up in the meantime ready to go to… Blundell’s Preparatory School in Tiverton, Devon on Tursday, where I had a lovely day –…

  • Wigtown Book Festival

    I’ve been in Scotland the last few days, at the Wigtown Book Festival in Galloway. Where’s Galloway? That’s what I wondered. It’s in the last remaining corner of Scotland that I’ve never been to before – bottom left, with views across to Ireland from Stranraer, whose Primary School I visited on Monday afternoon. I arrived…

  • More from Gateshead

    Yesterday, we created two new and bizarre stories about space. In the morning, we began with the cheese planet that was eaten by mice. The mice droppings created a planet of their own which was colonised by intergalactic dung beetles. They turned the planet into a fertile compost heap upon which rich green grass grew.…