Michael Morpurgo

Looking ahead to the weekend already, and this Saturday’s BBC Radio 4 play this weekend is Simon Reade’s stunning adaptation of Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo’s elegaic novel of the First World War. As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his… Read More

A colleague recently put me onto a fantastic book called ‘Humument‘.  Inspired by William Burroughs to ‘cut-up’ texts, in 1966 Tom Phillips found a three-pence copy of the 1892 text ‘The Human Document’ by W.H Mallock and then began to score out unwanted words from the text to create… Read More

My favourite author of all time is Michael Morpurgo and I was fortunate enough to meet him when he opened the new KS1 building in our school.  Last year we did a week of work on Morpurgo.  This was one of our favourite activities (but it could probably work for… Read More