Penny Dolan’s Visit Year 1 & 2
Local author Penny visited Key Stage 1 this afternoon.
First year 2 enjoyed Penny reading one of her books to them called Big Bad Blob, they joined in a word game and then learnt about writing books. While Year 1 was treated to Red Riding Hood Rap and met a special visitor, a naughty sheep.
The children really enjoyed the afternoon and many of them bought one of Penny’s books and had it signed.
Next Thursday 16th January local author, Penny Dolan will be visiting school and working with children in years 1 and 2. Penny will be telling the children stories and will talk about her books and about being a writer.
Please check book bags for a letter about the visit and information about the books that will be on sale at the end of the session.
Would you like to take part in this years Leeds Book Awards?
All you have to do is:
Simple!
Miss Whiteley will be talking to Year 5 & 6 in their library sessions this week but if you want to find out more or have any questions please see Miss Whiteley.
This year’s shortlisted titles are:
The Battles of Ben Kingdom: The Claws of Evil – Andrew Bleasby
The Great Ice-Cream Heist – Elen Caldercott
The Child’s Elephant – Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Ways to see a Ghost – Emily Diamund
Osbert the Advenger – Christopher William Hill
Wild Boy – Rob Lloyd Jones
Today the library was taken over by two new librarians, Phillippa and Cairan as part of Takeover Day.
The Librarians did a fantastic job reading stories to Reception, Nursery and Year 1 classes. Discussed favourite books with years 3/4 and 4 and scanned books in and out of the library. They also did a lot of tidying up too!
Exciting times ahead. The school has registered again to take part in this year’s Leeds Book Awards.
The awards run from January to April with the winning book announced at the awards ceremony which is held in Pudsey in May.
A small group of children from years 5 & 6 will be invited to participate in the awards and will read 6 shortlisted books, write a review for each, take part in fun activities and vote for their favourite book. They will also receive an invitation to attend the awards ceremony at which they will be able to meet the authors of the books.
If you are interested in taking part – keep checking the blog!
Happy Birthday Michael Morpurgo!
This month sees Michael Morpurgo celebrate his 70th Birthday and every day during November, schools, libraries and book shops are being invited to celebrate 30 of Michael’s books, one each day.
Check out the display in the library and for more information or to view the list of books please click on the link below:
http://www.michaelmorpurgo.com/
This afternoon local author and illustrator, Chris Mould visited school.
Key Stage 2 children were lucky enough to listen to Chris talk about how he first became an illustrator and later an author. Chris did some drawing and the children asked lots of questions.
Local author and illustrator, Chris Mould will be visiting KS2 children tomorrow afternoon (Friday 11th October).
Chris has written and illustrated numerous books for children and we are very excited about him coming to visit us.
Chapel Allerton based book shop, Radish Books will be supplying the books for tomorrow’s event and children will have the opportunity to urchase a book after the session and have it signed by Chris.
Radish are offering a 10% discount on the cover price of books with the Something Wickedly Weird series and Spindlewood Tale series books priced at £4.50 each while Fangs ‘n’ Fire, Pirates ‘n’ Pistols and Dust ‘n’ Bones will all be priced at £7.20.
Don’t forget your money!
A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who joined in the Dahlicious fun on Friday.
We raised an amazing £212.00!!!
There were some great costumes and we raised lots of money for Roald Dahl’s Children’s Charity.
