Mr Majeika helped Wim by aksing him what his favourite food was and then giving him a giant plate of steaming chips. I think that Hamish Bigmore will try to show off again and he will try to jump really high in the water and then he would drown . So then Mr Majeika would save him. Pete and Thomas were gloomy when Wim dropped his egg and bacon flan, because they were going to have to share their food with Wim.

Well done for your reading and completing your comprehension work yesterday. We will complete our final piece of writing based on this story on Thursday. Today’s focus is: Baxter sought to maintain the secrecy around his sexual orientation, with his biography describing how he had taken legal action over the posthumous publication of Kenneth Williams' diaries after Williams, a long-time friend, died in 1988. [13] In his biography, Baxter describes his discomfort with his homosexuality: "Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. There are many gay people these days who are fairly comfortable with their sexuality, fairly happy with who they are. I’m not. I never wanted to be gay. I still don’t." [15] Awards [ edit ]Teach Yourself To Speak Scottish – 4 – Parliamo Glasgow". 11 January 2008 . Retrieved 9 June 2012– via YouTube. The Kings Theatre, Glasgow: Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith published 2008 ISBN 978-0-9559420-0-6 The focus of these stories is Mr. Majeika, a teacher at St Barty's Primary School; a typical English primary school. However, he is no ordinary man, as is apparent when he flies into Class Three's boring lesson on a magic carpet, which he then turns into a bicycle, confounding the headmaster: Mr Majeika is a wizard! This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. ( April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Beacom, Brian (1 November 2020). The Real Stanley Baxter. Luath Press. ISBN 978-1910022054. Quoted in The Scotsman, 30 October 2020 {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)

Persuade: try to make someone do something (my definition); to make someone believe or agree to dome something (dictionary); In 1969, Baxter performed in the original production of Joe Orton's then controversial farce What the Butler Saw at the Queen's Theatre in the West End with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne and Hayward Morse. Baxter nurtured the stage careers of Alyson McInnes and John Ramage. Baxter remained a great favourite on the Scottish pantomime circuit, especially at the King's Theatre, Glasgow, up until his retirement in 1992. He starred, in pantomime, with popular Scottish stars, Jimmy Logan and Una McLean. Having read the book, I feel that it is more appropriate for children in the key stage two phase. It is a book which has a lot of adventure and creativity expressed within it which is something that can be used to support children from Years 3-6, particularly because it helps with their own individual creativity. This does not mean that this book is not applicable for children in key stage 1, particularly those that may be in a high ability reading group. Beacom, Brian (21 May 2016). "Showbusiness great Stanley Baxter on recording a new show for BBC". The Herald . Retrieved 1 November 2020. The first volume, Mr Majeika, was published in 1984 and was followed by Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher, Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel and The TV Adventures of Mr Majeika.Some colourful sweets. Coordinating Conjunctions are words or phrases that join two parts of a sentence. After the war, Baxter returned to Glasgow taking to the stage for three years at Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre. Following success on the radio with Jimmy Logan, Howard & Wyndham Ltd invited him to star in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow followed by the Half Past Eight Shows, and their successors the Five Past Eight Shows at Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. [2] [3] He moved to London to work in television in 1959. main clause conjunction subordinate clause These conjunctions can also go at the start of a sentence. Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter (Associated-Rediffusion/Channel 5, 2019, Subject/Interviewee) All six of Baxter's hour-long ITV specials were released on a two-disc DVD set in 2005 as The Stanley Baxter Collection [18] with a further two-disc DVD set being released in 2006 under the title The Stanley Baxter Series & Picture Show featuring both of his series of half-hour shows for ITV. [19] In 2008 a five-disc DVD box set was released titled The Stanley Baxter Television Set. The set includes both half-hour ITV series that Baxter made for ITV and six of his ITV specials. It also includes two of the feature films he made with James Robertson Justice The Fast Lady and Father Came Too!. [20] List of film and television appearances [ edit ] Stanley Baxter TV series [ edit ]

During the 1960s, Baxter had his own show on BBC Radio Scotland. [4] In 1994 he returned to radio, taking the role of Noël Coward in the BBC World Service Play of the Week, Marvellous Party [5] directed by Neil Cargill. Written by Jon Wynne-Tyson, it also starred Dorothy Tutin as Coward's lifelong friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson (Jon's mother). Also with Cargill, he read Whisky Galore [6] and Jimmy Swan – The Joy Traveller [7] for BBC Radio, providing the voices of all the characters. Mr Majeika is the title of a series of children's books, written by Humphrey Carpenter and published between 1984 and 2006. It was adapted into a children's television series of the same title and produced for the ITV network by TVS. The show aired between 1988 and 1990 and starred Stanley Baxter as Mr. Majeika. [1] The stories have also been broadcast on radio. In August 2014, Baxter was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. [14] Mr Majeika is a warm, funny and inventive story for children aged 8 to 11 to read in the classroom or at home. It is also praised by parents as a bedtime story for younger children.We will focus on reading the text, we will answer questions using inference skills and make predictions.

Thomas and Pete were gloomy when Wim dropped his egg and bacon flan because they knew that they would have to share their egg and bacon flan with him. Humphrey Carpenter lived nearly all his life in Oxford and was a broadcaster, author, prolific biographer and keen jazz musician. The series was written by Jenny McDade. Carpenter wrote the fourth book based on McDade's scripts, The Television Adventures of Mr Majeika. Three series of the programme were made, comprising twenty episodes in total. The location for St. Barty's Primary School was Matfield House in Tonbridge, Kent. REFUSED : when a person will ask another person to do something and the other person refuses to do it because she doesn’t want to do it.

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Mr Majeika is caring as he helps the children and although he turned the ruler into a snake and scared Hamish Bigmore Hamish Bigmore was not behaving well. After a lengthy spell in self-imposed retirement, he appeared in 2004 in a series of four half-hour radio sitcoms for BBC Radio 4, entitled Stanley Baxter and Friends; [8] the success of this has led to further series entitled The Stanley Baxter Playhouse in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2016, and Two Pipe Problems with Richard Briers in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Two further plays in this series were broadcast in 2013 with Geoffrey Palmer taking the Richard Briers role. In 2009 Eddie Izzard presented The Stanley Baxter Story on BBC Radio 2. [9] A further series of 'Playhouse' commenced airing on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018. As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump. Oldie Camper of the Year – For continuing to endear and delight his audiences with original comic material by The Oldie magazine (2008) [16] Stanley Baxter's bedside book of Glasgow humour (Book, 1986). [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 13795450.