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.

Thank you to everyone that entered this competition, there were so many entries. Miss Whiteley hard a really tough time judging them but eventually chose a winner.

The Winner is:

Taliah (Year 5) – well done!

A £10 book voucher and certificate will be coming its way to you very soon and everyone who entered will be receiving a runners up certificate.

Do you think you could be Leeds Reading Champion of 2022?

The School Library Service (we borrow resources from them in blue plastic boxes) together with publishing house Barringtoke Stoke and author Anna James have launched a competition open to all children in KS2.

One entry per school can be sent to them with the winner invited to attend the awards ceremony in July where they will receive a trophy and ‘crowned’ Leeds Reading Champion.

As there only one entry per school an be submitted Miss Whiteley thought children might like to have a ACE competition so that lots of children could enter rather than just Miss Whiteley selecting someone and possibly not considering some children.

The winner of the ACE competition will receive a £10 book voucher and their entry will be submitted to the School Library Service’s competition.

Miss Whiteley will be talking about this competition during library sessions this week and anyone who would like to enter can collect a form from Miss Whiteley.

The questions to consider are:

• Tell us about a book that you have enjoyed and why?
• Why do you think reading is important?
• How do you support reading in school?
• What do you think makes you a good reading champion?

Closing date: Thursday 26th May

What an absolutely amazing day!

So many fantastic costumes, it was almost as if characters had had stepped off of the pages of their books and come to life!

The day began with children enjoying quizzes in KS1 and UKS2 in their classrooms and LKS2 children in the hall and continued with lots of book themed activities taking place throughout school. In the afternoon, Year 5 and Year 6 were treated to a visit by author Clare Povey in the afternoon who set them a quiz about herself and talked to them about writing and her book, The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bon Livre.

Author, Clare Povey will be visiting school and leading a session for children in years 5 and 6 on World Book Day (Thursday 3rd March). Afterwards there will be a book selling/signing session. Books will be priced at a discounted cost of £7.20 (rrp £7.99).

If your child would like to buy a book, please bring money in a named envelope on the day.