Page 7 - Spring Newsletter 2015
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LIBRARY NEWS Winning door
M10
Read for My School is a national schools Where’s Wally
reading competition that promotes reading and runner up
and philanthropy by challenging pupils to T12
read as many books as possible across two Skulduggery
months of the spring term. Pleasant
All Year 7 pupils were signed up to the World Book Day celebrates
scheme and have been busy reading both on
line and off line books. Originally the scheme was due to run reading absolutely anything and
until March 20th, but it has recently been extended to finish everything, from books to text
after the Easter holidays, which gives pupils more time to messages and websites to
sample the extensive e-library and more chances to win magazines.
prizes. There was a lot of excitement this
year; forms were asked to decorate
Pupils were encouraged to read as many and as wide a their doors with their favourite book or book character.
range of books as they could. The website included an With over forty doors to choose from, a decision on the
updated library of over 150 online books to choose from and winner was finally announced. After much deliberation 1st
all participants could access these freely throughout the place was given to M10 for their ‘Where’s Wally’ design; the
door was eye catching and had been a collaborative effort.
competition. Pupils Second place was T12 for their take on ‘Skulduggery
could also choose to Pleasant’
read any book of their The library also gave away 300 WBD books and WBD
choice offline and asked vouchers to be used to buy the £1 books or to be used
to log each book that against the purchase of books.
they read in their pupil ‘Fully Booked’
account. The reading group meets on a Thursday lunch time in the
library. This term we have read Insurgent, the second book
Alice Foster in K4 in the Divergent series. Hopefully we will have the chance to
logged 6 books as being watch the film when it is released at the cinema later this
read and was extremely month so that we can compare the two.
pleased to be named as This term we have also made corner bookmarks,
a winner of 10 Penguin personalised book plates and taken part in a competition to
books! design a National Book Token.
The shortlist for the Staffordshire Young Teen Fiction book
Bronze Award Winners award was announced this month. Members of the group
now have 14 weeks in which to read 6 books and vote for
Congratulations to Chloe Brennan-Hopkinson, their winner. This year’s titles are:
Amelia Kingsland-Davies, Megan Fielding,
Kathy Forrester, Sam O’Neill, Libby Andre, Sally Valentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens; No Going Back by Alex Gutteridge;
Whittingham and Elloise Millington for passing Red Leaves by Sita Brahmachari; Bodyguard Ransom by Chris Radford;
their Bronze Arts Council England Award. The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald; Girl Online by Zoe Zugg
Mr. Moss and Tracey Howard from
Staffordshire Libraries presented their
certificates in the library.
Mrs K J Corbett
Whether you love knitting already or would like
to learn, please join us on Friday lunchtimes in
Room 21 for our new “Knit & Natter” club.
Open to anyone of any knitting ability. If you’ve
got your own supplies bring them but we’ve
got enough to get everyone started.
Bring your lunch!
Any questions, please feel free to come and
ask. Mrs Johnson and Mrs Ashton
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