Thursday March 19th 2026

I was up on stage at Lift Lea Forest today! I had a fantastic day there with all the pupils and staff, following my morning assembly with workshops for almost every year group. (We couldn’t manage to squeeze the Reception pupils into the timetable for the day, but I provided their teachers with some of my activity sheets.) There were so many budding authors and artists at this school, but it was a pupil from Year 1 that really blew me away and ended up winning my dragon prize, thanks to his incredible imagination and super story ideas. Well done, H!!! Thank you, Miss Evans, for organising my visit. Thank you to everyone at Lea Forest for a super day. And HUGE thanks to the incredible caretaker at this school, who couldn’t have done more to help out throughout the whole day and is (without a doubt) one of the kindest and loveliest people I’ve ever met!