Tag: School & Library Visits

  • 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.…

  • Chicken World

    I’m in Gateshead at the moment, at the Gateshead ICT Centre and the theme is Space. Yesterday St Ausutine’s Primary helped me come up with a most bizarre story about an Egg shaped planet populated by Chickens and Scaredy Cats. The photos are the first draft that we came up with. The poor frightened creatures…