Tag: School & Library Visits

  • St Cyres Comprehensive School – Penarth

    I spent the day talking to the year sevens at St Cyres Comprehenasive School, Penarth nr Cardiff yesterday. The school is split over two sites, being an amalgamation of two schools. Eventually a new school will be built and everyone will go to the same building. Both sites are certainly showing their age and, if…

  • Stockingford Infants – Nuneaton

    I had a great day, my sore throat not withstanding, at Stockingford Infants, who wanted to do some writing! I worked with three year one classes – I know, that’s a big infants school! The children chose an animal and we got to work building up stories about them. In the first we had a…

  • Children's Book Week – Day One – The Wirral

    I set out eearly yesterday to get to the Wirral in time to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight. Half an hour into my journey, on the M50, there was a bang and the steering wheel went funny. I managed to slide over to the hard shoulder and found that my front…