World Book Day is on Thursday 3rd March
Every child in school will be given a World Book Day Voucher which can be swapped for either a WBD book (available at participating retailers) or alternatively can be used to get £1 off the price of any book or audio CD costing £2.99 or more.
Below are this year’s WBD books, which one will you choose?
For more information about World Book Day visit http://www.worldbookday.com
On Thursday 11th February 42 children from years 4, 5 and 6 were invited to attend a very special evening at school. The children returned to school at 6pm dressed in their party clothes and walked up the lantern lit path to the main entrance.
Upon arrival at Hogwarts (the school hall) the sorting hat allocated a house to each for the evening.
The children earned house points by completing activities which included learning some ballroom dancing!
A big thank you to all of the staff that helped out at the event.
Take a look at some of the photos below (more photos are in the library).
This year the following children will be participating in the Leeds Book Awards:
Hamza Isha Cezara Yusuf Harneeka Abigail Isobel Charlotte Tayyeb
They will each have to read the six shortlisted books and write reviews for each one.
We will be meeting every Monday to swap and discuss the storylines, take part in activities and then after the Easter holidays will be voting for their favourite book.
See www.leedsbookawards.co.uk for more information
This afternoon author and storyteller, Saviour Pirotta visited school.
Saviour told stories to KS1 about his Gran who lives in Malta in a big house, the time the police chased her and how she ended up parking her motorbike in the sea!
He also told a story about a witch, a boy called Billy, lots of apples and some plums.
On Tuesday 2nd February storyteller, Saviour Pirotta will be visiting children in years 1 and 2.
Saviour will work with the children in a single session sharing his stories of mythical beasts, damsels in distress and traditional tales.
Saviour has retold and had published many traditional fairy tales, myths and legends and non-fiction books.
Following the session there will be the opportunity for children to buy one of Saviour’s books and have it signed.
For more information about Saviour Pirotta you might like to visit his website
http://www.spirotta.com
Do you have any books that are so well loved that they are falling apart?
Page Turners will gladly take them off your hands.
Miss Whiteley is helping Page Turners create wonderful book sculptures using old and broken books. These masterpieces will then be used for a display in the library.
To see what they have been doing visit the Page Turners blog.
Want to find out about this year’s shortlisted books?
The books are…
This is the story of Jake Biggs and his dad, George. George spends all week knocking down buildings and all weekend knocking down wrestlers. He’s the Demolition Man, and Jake couldn’t be prouder. But when Jake hears about a pro-wrestling competition in the USA, and persuades his beloved dad to apply, things don’t quite turn out the way he expected.
Ghost, Cormac and Kate are junior recruits of the Black Lotus, a school for ninjas. When a
powerful weapon is stolen, the three must battle through 16th-century Japan and present-day New York to stop a power-hungry shogun from destroying the city.
Cabin boy Mel Foster has always been told that he’d come to a bad end – he just never thought it would be as a meal for a giantess from the Arctic wastes! But as Mel is about the find out, looking monstrous doesn’t make you a monster. Eve Frankenstein has no interest in eating Mel. She wants to protect him. And very soon he’ll need as much protection as he can get. While Eve and Mel become firm friends in the Arctic, far away in London Queen Victoria’s strange new butler is hatching a plan that could destroy the British Empire … and only Mel has the power to stop him.
Imara and Bobo are two children living with a band of rebel soldiers in the African jungle. When an orphaned gorilla is brought to their camp they swear to protect it. But in their war-ravaged world, can they ever find true safety?
My brother is a superhero, and I could have been one too, except that I needed to go for a wee. My name is Luke Parker, I’m 11 years old and I live in a mild-mannered part of London with my mum, dad and big brother, Zack. He wasn’t always a superhero, but with a name like Zack you’ve got to wonder if my parents had a hunch that one day he’d end up wearing a mask and cape and saving orphans from burning buildings. I mean, come on! It’s what you get in a comic when a superhero punches a supervillain. Pow! Blam! Zack!
You are cordially invited to attend the grand opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a world of bonbons, hats, perfumes and mysteries around every corner. Wonder at the daring theft of the priceless clockwork sparrow! Tremble as the most dastardly criminals in London enact their wicked plans! Gasp as our bold heroines, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lilian Rose, crack codes, devour iced buns and vow to bring the villains to justice.
Every year school takes part in the Leeds Book Awards.
The awards are organised by the School Library Service (the people who lend us books that are in the big blue plastic boxes) who pick six books for children to read who are taking part. The children are asked to write what they think about each book and also once they have read all six books vote for their favourite one.
They are then invited to attend an award ceremony where the winner is announced. After the ceremony books can be bought and children are able to meet the authors.
Interested? See Miss Whiteley for more information.
The Christmas holidays are first approaching so if you haven’t already done so
Thank You
Miss Whiteley
Miss Whiteley has been busy ordering lots of lovely new books and they have now arrived!
Lookout for books by Michael Morporgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Eva Ibbotson, Julian Clary, David Walliams, Guiness Book of Records 2016, Ripley’s Believe it or not, Goosebumps, the Rainbow Magic series and Diary of a Wimpy Kid books to name but few!
Please, please, please, remember to look after them too so that they can be enjoyed by lots of children.
If there are any books that are not in the library that you think should be please let Miss Whiteley know and it might be possible to buy them.
