Academic year 2025 – 2026 started off in fine style! I delivered my second ATSA session in Atherton, collaborating with Wigan libraries, to fire up talented writers from eight local primaries. School visits in Rossendale and Cheadle were fantastic and both return visits allowing me to build on existing links. A new school on the…
This term proved to be a hectic one with school and library gigs coming at me thick and fast! School gigs included trips to Birmingham, Blackburn, Preston, Scunthorpe and Clitheroe to name but a few. Selly Oak SEN school in Birmingham made for a memorable two days – the largest SEN school in the UK.…
Spring Term is always the busiest and this one didn’t disappoint! National Storytelling Week and World Book Day fall in this term and along with other events and gigs make it a hectic few months. January started with three days in schools in Worcestershire before school events moved back up north to Blackpool, Leigh and…