On Thursday 8th February 53 children from Years 4, 5 and 6 were invited to attend this year’s Harry Potter Book Night.
The children arrived at 5.45pm to take part in the sorting hat ceremony which was followed by lots of different activities before the evening closed with the trophy being awarded to the house with the most points.
This year Ravenclaw won with 645 house points!
On Thursday 1st March we will be celebrating World Book Day.
This year’s theme is Where’s Wally and we are inviting children to come into school dressed up as Wally or Wenda (no other characters from other books please).
The day will be filled with lots of Where’s Wally activities and we also have an author, Jane Elson visiting children in years 5 and 6.
Author, Daniel Ingram-Brown will be visiting school and running a session for children in years 4, 5 and 6.
He will talk to the children about being a writer, about his books and writing their own stories.
Children will also have the opportunity to buy a book/s. If they would like to do so they can either pre-order or bring money on the day.
Books are priced at £8 each or £12 for both of them.
Look out for a letter about this event.
DEADLINE for pre-ordered books is
FRIDAY 23rd FEBRUARY
http://firebirdchronicles.com/
This afternoon Year 1 children visited Moor Allerton Library and attended a session with author and illustrator, Chris Naylor-Ballesteros.
The children thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon, listening to Chris read and especially his drawing.
Year 1 will be attending the Chris Naylor-Ballesteros author event at Moor Allerton Library on Thursday 18th January.
If you haven’t ordered your books it is not too late.
Please complete the slip at the bottom of the letter and send either cash or a cheque (made payable to Orinoco Books) by Tuesday 16th January.
Both are priced at £6.00 each (rrp £6.99)
Children will be able to have their book/s signed by Chris following the session.
On Thursday 1st March we will be celebrating World Book Day.
This year’s theme is Where’s Wally and we are inviting children to come into school dressed up as Wally or Wenda (no other characters from other books please).
The day will be filled with lots of Where’s Wally activities and we also have an author, Jane Elson visiting children in years 5 and 6.
Year 1 children have been invited to a special event at Moor Allerton Library with author Chris Naylor-Ballesteros on Monday 18th January.
Letters will be sent home once we return to school following the holidays, in the meantime click on the link below to find out more about Chris.
http://www.chrisnaylorballesteros.com/
Miss Whiteley has received confirmation of the six shortlisted books for this year’s Leeds Book Awards and has been to collect them!
The books are:
If you are in either Year 5 or Year 6 and would like to take part or to find out more about the awards, please see Miss Whiteley.
There are lots of new books in the library just waiting to be read, come and check them out!
Here are just a few of the books…
This afternoon Miss Whiteley and the library were taken over over by Maximillian. He talked with the classes about their favourite books and authors, scanned books in and out of the library and entered new books onto the library management system.
Thank you for your help Max!
