We will be celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday 5th October.

Poems will be shared all through the week during library sessions along with a Poetry Trail for KS2 children. Classes will be learning a poem to recite per key stage in the following week’s assembly.

There is also a poetry competition: Write a poem linked to the theme ‘Refuge’ or ‘A Safe Place’. Winners will receive a book voucher. Poems should be written on the competition entry form and submitted to Miss Whiteley by the closing date of Friday 20th October.

The club were really excited this week – it was voting time!

Armed with their voting slips the children choose different areas of the library and then handed their completed slips into Miss Whiteley.

The votes were counted and the winner was…..

Loki: The Bad God’s Guide to being Good by Louie Stowell

The club then talked about why they had chosen the book that they had voted for.

This afternoon the group discussed the last shortlisted book that they had been reading over the holiday; Loki: a Bad Guide to Being Good

Their thoughts? Most of them loved it!

More Loki related activities today, completing their own ‘Gods’ and story starters, book covers and reviewed the book.

We are now nearing the end of the awards and voting for our favourite book will be taking place next week (14th September) – I wonder who will be the favourite?

Weekly Class Library sessions begin again next week.

If you have a school library book at home that you forgot to return before the summer holidays please bring it into school and hand to Miss Whiteley.

There is lots going on the this term:

Author Visits

• Thursday 26th October (Y2) – Jenny Hunt
• Tuesday 21st November (LKS2) – Andy Seed
• Thursday 30th November (Year 6) – Emma Carroll

Look out for more information about these author events by visiting the blog, newsletter and parentmail.

Our last meeting today until after the summer holidays.

We read the blurb of the final shortlisted book for the LKS2 group. Excitement was evident and everyone wanted to start reading it.

First though, Leonora Bolt book reviews were written. A quick vote of hands as to which book the group liked best. It was a dead heat between The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams and Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor.

This week’s activity was to create our very own Gods which the group loved.

They couldn’t wait to start reading Loki!

The next meeting for the LKS2 Leeds Book Awards will be in September.

This week the LBA group made their very own book marks. They draw and selected images from the books to create their own unique designs.

They also wrote book reviews for The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams

And started the next book Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor

At the end of the session, the group visited the display in the entrance hall to find out what the other groups; EYFS, KS1 & UKS2 had been getting up to.

Join in with this year’s Summer Reading Challenge!

The theme is sports and games.

Sign up at your local library (Moor Allerton Library near Sainsburys is probably the nearest for you) or sign up and participate online.

Create a profile, read books, earn rewards and of course have fun!

To find out more and to sign up visit:

www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

This week, the Leeds Book Awards Club members welcomed newcomer Max to the club and read some of the book.

The also group invented their own impossible ice-creams; which ranged from spider flavour to chicken and broccoli (hopefully Curtis wasn’t made into ice-cream) to all the berries you could possibly think of!

Why not have a go at creating your own ice-cream too?

With five chapters read, the Leeds Book Awards Book Club met again. This week they had the opportunity to finish their front covers for their journals, discussed the story so far and to read some more of the book.

Take a look at how they got on.

Next week more chatter about impossible ice-creams and some bookmarks to make.