Welcome Back!

Posted on 2nd September 2014 by Miss Whiteley

Welcome back to School!

This term there are lots of exciting library events being planned……

Friday 26th September – Dress Up Dahlicious Day

We will be celebrating all things Roald Dahl in particular the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which turns 50 years old this year! Also we will be dressing up as a character from one of Roald Dahl’s books to raise money for Roald Dahl’s Children’s Charity.

http://www.roalddahl.com/charity/who-we-are

Thursday 2nd October – National Poetry Day

This year’s theme is Remembrance so we will be sharing some poems filled with memories and having a go at writing our own.

Monday 6th – Friday 10th October – Children’s Book Week

To celebrate Children’s Book Week we will be recommending our favourite books to one another.

Ilkley Literature Festival – Monday 13th October

Year 6 will be travelling to Ilkley to visit the festival and to take part in a special event with author Morris Gleitzman.

For more information about the children’s events programme click on the link

http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/children/

Jason Beresford – Thursday 23rd October

Local author Jason Beresford will be leading a special assembly to introduce ‘The Fabulous Four Fish Fingers’ to school followed by sessions with years 3 and 4.

There will also be a book selling and signing session.

For more information about Jason and the Fabulous Four Fish Fingers click on the link below:

http://www.thefabulousfourfishfingers.com/

More information on all these events to follow.

Tom Palmer & Tour De Leeds Libraries

Posted on 24th June 2014 by Miss Whiteley

This morning 15 KS2 children were lucky enough to visit Moor Allerton Library and take part in a session with author Tom Palmer as part of his Tour De Leeds Libraries in celebration of Le Tour De France.

Tom showed off his bike that he had ridden to the library (Tom will be riding his bike from library to library over the next two weeks), spoke about reading and writing books, about his love of football and read his short story that he has written for the tour about a girl who visits her local library (on her bike).

Everyone enjoyed the morning and posed for a photo at the end of the session with Tom.

and the winner is…..!

Posted on 20th May 2014 by Miss Whiteley

This morning the book club (who have been participating in the Leeds Book Awards since January) accompanied Miss Whiteley and Mrs Glazer to Pudsey Civic Hall to attend the Awards Ceremony.

It was all very exciting, there were over 400 children attending from Primary schools across Leeds. The ceremony was hosted by poet Craig Bradley who told lots of silly jokes and performed some poetry.

Six primary schools each did a performance based upon one of the shortlisted books and then the winner was announced…..

Everyone held their breath.

The winner of the 2014 Leeds Book Awards was –

Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones!

After the ceremony the group had the opportunity to meet the authors (5 of the 6 authors had attended) and have their books or notepads signed.

Everyone left the Awards Ceremony having had a great morning.

However, the exciting day didn’t stop there, at Leeds train station the book club were extremely fortunate to meet Olympic cyclist, Jason Kenny!

The group rode bikes and then had their photograph taken with Jason. What an amazing ending to an already fabulous day!

LBA – Voting now closed

Posted on 25th April 2014 by Miss Whiteley

The voting has now closed for this year’s Leeds Book Awards. Having thought carefully about the books that they have read over the past few months, deliberated very hard, this I how the group from ACE have voted:

The Great Ice-Cream Heist by Elen Caldecott 0 votes

Battles of Ben Kingdom by Andrew Beasley 0 votes

Ways to See a Ghost by Emily Diamand 0 votes

Osbert the Avenger by Christopher William Hill 0 votes

The Childs Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston 1 vote

Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones 7 votes

Looks like Wild Boy was greatly enjoyed by the group!

I wonder who will win????

The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at Pudsey Civic Hall on Thursday 20th May.

Marked Manuscripts Submitted

Posted on 24th April 2014 by Miss Whiteley

The Young Editors have been working really hard this week trying to finish reading through the manuscripts. It has all been a bit of a rush because of the Easter holidays, still Mrs Johnston and Miss Whiteley were confident that the Young Editors would finish in time and they have!

Five groups have been reading A Perfectly Ordinary School by Jeremy Strong and another 5 groups have been reading The Girl with the Sunshine Smile.

All the groups thoroughly enjoyed reading the manuscripts and can’t wait for the nextones to become available.

Miss Whiteley posted off the manuscripts to publisher Barrington Stoke this afternoon.

For more information about Barrington Stoke or the Young Editors Scheme please visit

http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/

Sarah Shafi Trip

Posted on 24th April 2014 by Miss Whiteley

Moor Allerton Library have invited years 3, 3/4 and 4 to an author event on Monday 19th May. Sarah Shafi will be talking about her series of books, Ridiculous Witches and after the session there will be the opportunity to buy a book or two and have them signed before returning to school.

Books will be priced at £4.99 each or 3 for £12.

Leeds Book Awards

Posted on 28th March 2014 by Miss Whiteley

The group has been reading the six short listed books and we have been swapping our thoughts on them.

With the Easter holidays looming and only one group member, Hannah, who has read all six books so far, the rest of the group will be doing lots of reading over the holidays so that they can cast their votes (each person can vote for their favourite shortlisted book)before the voting deadline on Friday 25th April.

Come back soon to find out which book/s ACE have voted as their favourite/s.

To find out more about the Leeds Book Awards or to read the group’s book reviews please visit www.leedsbookawards.co.uk

Young Editors

Posted on 26th March 2014 by Miss Whiteley

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.

World Book Day

Posted on 6th March 2014 by Miss Whiteley

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.

Author to visit School

Posted on 8th January 2014 by Miss Whiteley

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.

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