Category Archives: 2013-14

Young Editors

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Today Mrs Johnston and Miss Whiteley started a new club on Wednesday lunchtimes from 12.30pm – 1pm.

The club is Young Editors (Barrington Stoke organised) and members are a mix of children from years 3/4 to year 6.

The purpose of the club is to provide the opportunity to read and mark unpublished manuscripts. These will often be manuscripts by well known authors.

The object is to take it in turns to read sections of the manuscript, make any amendments, correct spelling errors, decide on where a picture might be suited and score each chapter out of 10. Once the manuscript is read in full an overall mark out of 10 is given. The manuscripts are then ‘uploaded’/posted to the publisher Barrington Stoke for consideration.

The two manuscripts that are currently being read are:

A perfectly Ordinary School by Jeremy Strong and The Girl with the Sunshine Smile by Karen McCrombie.

 

 

Read for My School Update

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Read for my school

The competition is over half way through and with only 3 weeks remaining!

We have 35 children participating, 126 books have been read so far and 2 letters completed.

So far 3 have read 8 or more books so they can be enter to have a chance of winning a prize and as a whole we need to read 124 more books for the school to be in with a chance of winning a big prize!

Can we do it?

It’s not too late to join in, if you would like to be part of the Read for My School competition see Miss Whiteley.

World Book Day

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Today is World Book Day!

We will be having a booktastic celebration of stories and traditional tales.

Yesterday saw the start of swapping World Book Day vouchers for the £1 books and children may do so until the end of school tomorrow or until the books run out!

Have a go at completing one of the book quizzes available from the library or get artistic, create a bookmark and enter the competition*.

There are lots of great prizes to be won.

*See Miss Whiteley for a Bookmark competition entry form.

Hello, Hugless Douglas!Little Book Day ParadeBarry Loser: I Am <strike>Not</strike> Nit a LoserFun with the Worst WitchThe Midnight Picnic: A Laura Marlin MysteryHorrible Histories: Terrible TrenchesMiddle School: How I Got Lost in LondonJack Pepper

 

 

 

 

World Book Day Countdown

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WBD logoWorld Book Day is almost here!

On Thursday 6th March we will be celebrating books by sharing our favourite stories and traditional tales. In the library there will be quizzes and a design a bookmark competition.

World Book Day £1 vouchers will also be given out and everyone will have the opportunity to swap their voucher for a World Book Day book.

Which one will you choose?

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Let the Competition begin

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Read for my School competition starts today!

More than 30 children in KS2 have signed up to take part but there is still time to join in.

How many books could you read from now until 28th March?

One, maybe five or more? Read eight or more and you could win a prize!

If you would like to take part see Miss Whiteley.

Read for My School

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 National reading competition taking place from 27th January to 28th March for children in years 3 – 8.

The aim of the competition is to get children reading as many books from as many different genres as they can over the two months.

Children can read books online, online from the Read for my School website, from the school library, public library or from home.

One of the organisers, Pearson Education has pledged to donate at least 100,000 new books to schools in Tanzania through Book Aid International’s programme, Library in a box. Children will also be encouraged to write a letter to children in Tanzania.

There are prizes up for grabs. Any child reading 8 or more books will be entered in a prize draw and any school as a whole where children have read 250+ will also be entered for a prize draw.

To take part or for more information see Miss Whiteley or your class teacher.

 

Leeds Book Awards Update

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LBA logoThe Leeds Book Awards Book Club had their first meeting at lunchtime today.

We talked about the awards, the 6 shortlisted books and looked at the Leeds Book Awards website.

Next the books were chosen which everyone was excited about and were eager to get reading. Once first books were selected the meeting closed.

Next meeting: Friday 24th January at 12.30pm

Leeds Book Awards update

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LBA logoWow! 28 children put forward their names to participate in the this years Leeds Book Awards, unfortunately only 8 children are able to take part.

They are:

  • Ellie (Yr 6)
  • Hannah (Yr 6)
  • Kea (Yr 6)
  • Nia (Yr 5)
  • Gemma (Yr 5)
  • Rachel M (Yr 5)
  • Patrick (Yr 5)
  • Lewis (Yr 5)

Congratulations all!

If you did not get selected please don’t be too disappointed, Year 6 you may have the opportunity at High School (11- 14 & 14 – 16 categories) and Year 5 perhaps try again next year.

Also watch out for Read For My School (reading competition) and the Kate Greenaway Medal more information coming soon.