Visits News
Right now I'm working on a TV show over in Budapest so I don't get to make as many visits as I'd like. But over the last few years there have been been quite a lot of visits...
Sedgehill School Catford, Ryde High School, Southampton Book Fair, Guildford Library, Writing On The Wall Literary Festival, Liverpool, Lowdham Literary Festival, Tudor School, Church Hill School, Woodcroft, Chalgrove, All Saints, Osidge, Our Lady Of Lourdes, St John's, Queenswell, Sacred Heart, Web Weavers Interschool Book Festival Jarrow, Archbishop Lanfranc School Croydon, Albany Junior School, Stapleford, Bromley Heath Junior School, Dunraven School Streatham, East Oxford First School, Dunraven School Streatham again, and my old friends at Selhurst School, Radcliffe-On-Trent Primary at Radcliffe library, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Mountford House School, Nottingham, the fabulous Pilton Community College, Devon, the Lads and Dads Clubs of Hampshire, Manor Lodge School, Shenley, Stanley Technical College, Norwood, Elland Road Football Ground for Leeds Libraries, Ryde High School, Hugh Myddleton Primary School in Islington - Big Fish, Little Fish, an great new project using drama and writing to explore the transition to secondary school. A whole bunch of schools out in Thailand including Patana, St Andrews, St Johns, Harrow and Dulwich on Phuket. Then there's been Reading Stars events at Arsenal and Islington Libraries, A week of script writing at Eltham Green School, reading and writing at Flore Primary in Northamptonshire, Coppleston High in Ipswich and Kidbrooke in, of all places Kidbrooke. A day with St Aloysius as part of the National Gallery's ARTICULATE project, a couple more projects at Hugh Myddleton, Winton School, Arsenal Football Club again, Mount Carmel Girls, Holloway School, Rushey Green, Swadelands in Kent, Walsall library, Toton library, Nottingham Trent University, Sevenoaks Preparatory School to open their library, Brakenhale School to open their learning resource centre, Sandringham School, Woolwich Polytechnic School, and an.
And there was more: Carshalton Primary and Yardley Court School in Tonbridge. Return visits to Dunraven and Hugh Myddelton. An amazing few days in Gallion Primary School in Beckton. Suffolk Schools' Book Mastermind. Long term projects at Little Thurrock and Ryde High School. Then there's been Everton Football Club, The Romsey School in Hampshire, Coombeshead College, Edmund Waller Primary School in Nunhead, The Jewish School, Camden Community School, two days with Blaenarfon Library and two with Caerphilly libraries, Handcross Park, Feltham Young Offenders Establishment for English PEN, Harrow Road library, Ilford County School, Maidstone Girls' Grammar, Mount Carmel Catholic Girls' School, Perse School in Cambridge, Copleston for a return visit, and last but by no means least Holbrook in Ipswich.
BEST AUTHOR TREATMENT: The prize goes to Maidstone Girls' Grammar who listened intently, laughed at all my jokes, and were thoroughly bright and entertaining in the workshops.
Runners up: The Romsey School and Holbrook School - the students at both schools were utterly charming and asked by far the most original, intelligent and beguiling questions I have ever been asked.