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If you can give
your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The
Little Prince"
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
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Career
to Date
July
2006 - 2007
- Writing
- currently working on number of titles for various trade and
educational publishers
- Inset
work with Primary Teachers focusing on the creative strands of
the new Primary Framework
- Creative
writing workshops in primary and secondary schools
October
2005 - 2006 - Writing-in-residence Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre,
Great Missenden
- Working
with the gifted and talented and with local football clubs to
encourage reluctant readers
June-October
2005 - Writer-in-Residence for the Young Cultural Creators Project
- Running
writing workshops with Banbury, Cogges and High Wycombe Museums
Sept
2001 - 2005 - Writer/Storyteller/Consultant
- Writing
children's fiction, consultancy and writing education materials
for the Hamilton Trust
April
1999 - July 2001 - Teacher
- Foundation
& Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford.
Jan
1997 - April 2000 - National Teachers' Centre Adviser, Zanzibar
(VSO)
- Working
with my Zanzibari counterparts to identifying training needs and
plan appropriate inset
Previous
Work History
- Primary
school teaching - Foundation, KS1 and KS2 (Tower Hamlets & Greenwich)
- Journalist
- Broadsystems Ltd. and News International
- Musician
- Lead singer, writer and arranger in an 11-piece Latin Jazz group
called Avanti
- Voluntary
Work - with street-children in Guatemala
Education
- 1992
Postgraduate Certificate of Education, Greenwich University
- 1985
BA (Hons.) Performing Arts, Middlesex Polytechnic
Interests
- Tennis,
Kiswahili, music & reading
Published
Works
- Bella's
Brazilian Football (March 2007 - Milet, ISBN 1840594888)
- Bella
Balistica and the African Safari (June 2006 - Milet, ISBN
1840594829)
- Last
Mission (Jan 2006 - Longman, ISBN 0582851408) - Interactive
CDROM. Part of Digitext series - sci-fi
- Bella
Balistica and the Indian Summer (Feb 2005 - Milet, ISBN 1840594071)
Age range 9-12, Children's adventure fantasy - 75,000 words
- Our
Neighbour's a Vampire! (Ginn, ISBN 0-602-24209-6)
- Ghoul
School (Ginn, ISBN 0-602-24214-2)
- Bella
Balistica and the Temple of Tikal (Sept 2004 - Milet, ISBN
1840593946) Age range 9-12, children's adventure fantasy - 75,000
words
- Baba
Yaga's Black Geese (2003 - Hamilton Trust , ISBN 1903990041)
Retelling of classic Russian folktale for KS2 - available also
as an oral CD with music and effects by Adam Guillain
- The
Great Bird (2003 - Hamilton Trust, ISBN 1903990041) Original
story in folktale genre for upper KS2 - also available on CD,
story read by Sinead Gaffney, with music and effects by Adam Guillain
- Zanzibar
Treasures (March 2005 - OUP, ISBN 0602242096) Short story
in Voyage collection 2 with teacher materials targeted at YR4
(age range 8-9) Literacy Hour
Forthcoming
Publications
- Turning
The Wheel (July 2007) & Bella's Chocolate Surprise (Oct 2007)
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For excerpts from two of my children's novels click on the
links below.
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Albert Einstein |
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Imagination is more
important than knowledge...
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Galileo |
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You cannot teach a man anything; you
can only help him find it within himself.
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