murray gadd reads The Word Collector
3 Jul 2020

Murray Gadd Reads & Writes from “The Word Collector” for Year 1 – 8 students

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Engagement and Achievement in Writing with Dr. Murray Gadd’, we watch Murray reading and talking about “The Word Collector” by Peter H. Reynolds. This video is aimed at Year 1 – 8 students. It was originally broadcast by Murray on YouTube during the Covid-19 lockdown (March & April 2020) … Read More

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murray gadd reads The Truth According to Arthur
3 Jul 2020

Murray Gadd Reads & Writes from “The Truth According to Arthur” for Year 3 – 6 students

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Engagement and Achievement in Writing with Dr. Murray Gadd’, we watch Murray reading and writing from “The Truth According to Arthur” by Tim Hopgood. This video is primarily aimed at Year 3 – 6 students. It was originally broadcast by Murray on YouTube during the Covid-19 lockdown (March & … Read More

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murray gadd reads The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
3 Jul 2020

Murray Gadd Reads & Writes from “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers” for Year 6 – 10 students

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Engagement and Achievement in Writing with Dr. Murray Gadd’, we watch Murray reading and writing from “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers” by Mordecai Gerstein. This video is primarily aimed at Year 6 – 10 students. It was originally broadcast by Murray on YouTube during the Covid-19 lockdown … Read More

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murray gadd reads roly the donkey
3 Jul 2020

Murray Gadd Reads & Writes from “Roly the Anzac Donkey” for Year 3 – 8 students

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In this episode of ‘Building Excitement, Engagement and Achievement in Writing with Dr. Murray Gadd’, we watch Murray reading and writing from “Roly the Anzac Donkey” written by Glyn Harper. This video is primarily aimed at Year 3 – 8 students. It was originally broadcast by Murray on YouTube during the Covid-19 lockdown (March & … Read More

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The Arts Montage - Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020

Update On The Arts February 2020

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BOOKS READ I spent the holiday period (December and January) perusing everyone’s ‘best of 2019’ lists (especially in the Guardian, the New York Times and the NZ Listener) and reading the novels that ‘crossed over’ many of these lists.  In all, I read 13 novels in this period. My favourites, by far, were all by American writers and two of … Read More

Oct 2019 book and movie reviews
11 Nov 2019

Update on The Arts October 2019

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I spent most of October reading the six short-listed novels for the 2019 Man Booker Prize: ‘The Testaments’ (Margaret Atwood); ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ (Lucy Ellmann); ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ (Bernadine Evaristo); ‘An Orchestra of Minorities’ (Chigozie Obioma); ‘Quichotte’ ( Salman Rushdie); ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ (Elif Shafak).   I commented on some of these in my last book blog, … Read More

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