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
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.
Tomorrow (Friday 27th September) is Dress up Dhalicious Day. Don’t forget to come to school dressed up as you favourite Roald Dahl Character and bring £1.
Looking forward to seeing all your costumes and raising lots of money for Roald Dahl’s Children’s Charity!
Come dressed to school as your favourite Roald Dahl character
on
Friday 27th September
Could you be Matilda, Danny the Champion of the World or even one of the Twits?!
Please remember to bring £1 with you. All monies will go to the Roald Dahl Children’s Charity.
Please visit Roald Dahl’s website www.roalddahlcharity.org for more information
Welcome back to School!
This term there are lots of exciting things being planned……
Friday 27th September – Dress Up Dahlicious Day
We will be celebrating all things Roald Dahl and also will be dressing up as a character from one of Roald Dahl’s books to raise money for Roald Dahl’s Children’s Charity.
Thursday 3rd October – National Poetry Day
This year’s theme is water so we will be sharing some watery poems and having a go at writing our own.
Monday 7th – Friday 11th October – Children’s Book Week
We will be sharing our favourite books and Key Stage 2 will be preparing from a visit from an author & illustrator.
Friday 11th October – Visit from author & illustrator Chris Mould (KS2)
Chris will be visiting school and talking about his books. More information to follow.
Today 10 children accompanied by Mrs Johnson and Miss Whiteley attended the Leeds Book Awards Award Ceremony at the Pudsey Civic Hall.
Over the past 4 months, the children had been reading the 6 shortlisted titles, writing reviews on the Leeds Book Awards website and discussing the books. Then finally they had the opportunity to vote for their favourite.
Almost 50 Primary schools and 450 children participated in the awards all of which were invited to the ceremony.
Poet Craig Bradley provided the entertainment and announced the winning book and author…..
Poppy’s Hero by Rachel Billington
After the ceremony finished the children had the opportunity to buy books and get them signed by the authors.
All in all a fantastic day!
Posing with the winning author