This year the summer reading challenge is a bit different, instead of visiting your local library, it is online. The theme is silly squad and it is celebrating books that make you laugh and feel happy. The silly squad are a group of unusual animals that love adventure and fun. They adore reading and playing games. There are badges to earn along your journey, games to play and a certificate to print if you manage to complete the challenge. If you would like to take part you will need to register and create an account with the summer reading challenge website, all of the information you need will be there as well as lots more fun and create ideas.
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

Competition Time

Would you like to win a £10 National Book Token for yourself and everyone in your class to spend in any bookshop? If you would you can use your time and skills to create a new design for the Nation Book Token gift card. Let your imagination run wild, there are endless possibilities and try to make your design as eye catching as you can. One design will be chosen and printed weekly for the next seven weeks. Anyone is able to buy a gift card from the National Book Token website, supermarkets, bookshops and WH Smith, therefore many people will be able to see your artwork. The competition is open now until 28th June, all entries need to be submitted online. For all the information you need please visit the National Book Token website



http://www.nationalbooktokens.com​









Good luck.

Mrs Martin

World Book Day

Our adventure through the wardrobe and into Narnia is over, the children had an amazing week, even though  it was disrupted by the snow. Many children entered into the spirit of World Book Day and dressed up as characters from The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. It was fantastic to see. The competition was once again very well supported and the winning children were able to choose their prizes from the book fayre. Thank you to all the parents, adults and children who visited the book fayre your support is appreciated. Don't forget if you haven't used your World Book Day voucher you can still use it in bookshops and selected supermarkets until 25th March.

Competition

I am pleased to annouce that the winner of the letter writing competition is Molly Joyce. She imagined that she was an evacuee called Hannah and wrote a letter home to her Mum. She has won a copy of JacquelienWilson's new book 'Wave Me Goodbye' and her entry will be sent forward to the national competition. Good luck Molly.
Thank you to all of the children who entered.

Mrs Martin

Competition

Just a reminder that the closing date for the Jacqueline Wilson letter writing competition is Friday. If you would like to enter please hand your letter to be by the end of the school day. There are some amazing prizes to win. Make sure you include your name and class.

Competition

I would like to announce an exciting competition that I am running in the Library along with First News and Jacqueline Wilson. I would like you to write a formal letter to someone who lives far away, it can be a family member, friend or a made up person it dosen't matter. However you must not include any text words such as M8's or emojis. Your letter can be printed or hand written and a maximum of 750 words. Winners will be chosen and receive a book as their prize then their letters will be entered into a national competition. If you win that competition as well the amazing prize is a chance to meet Jacquelin Wilson herself. Your letter will also be included in one of her next stories and you will receive a whole host of books for yourself and the school. Hand to me by 30th June, which is the closing date. Remember to include you name and class on your entry. A display of the letters will be created in the library area for everyone to see.


For further information go to:

Website: first.news/creativejacqueline
       Tab: kids stuff
       Tab:funstuff/things to do and see.

I'm looking forward to reading your letters. Good luck.

Mrs Martin

Design A Dragon Competition

At last I am pleased to be able to announce the winners of the competition. They are

Mireia - 2P

Curtis - 5RH

Cydnee - 6T

All of them have been presented with a certificate and a reading book about dragons in assembly. Their excellent designs have been entered into the national competition, which is run by Scholastic Books. If any of them are national winners I will be notifeid by 30th September.
In total there were 63 entries, which I'm sure you will agree, is a very impressive amount. All entrants have now been presented with certificates.
There is a display of the some of the designs in the junior library. If you have a spare moment it is worth taking a look.

Design a Dragon Competition

I am launching an exciting new competition this week in the library it is to design, colour and describe a dragon. Let your imagination run wild and create a unique, scary or beautiful dragon. It could have huge scaly wings, razor sharp teeth or dagger like claws. Your design needs to be colourful to have the most impact and of course your dragon needs to have a name. There is also an area on the entry form to write a brief description as well as an area to write statistics about your dragon.
If you would like to enter collect an entry form from the library. Ensure that your name and class is written on your entry and handed to me by the closing date which is 13th June.

Certificates will be presented to every child who has entered the competition. There will be three winners who will receive a prize. Winning dragons will be entered for a national competition run by ScholasticBooks. If one of our designs is the national winner the dragon will be drawn by author and illustrator Cressida Cowell (she has written the series 'How To Train Your Dragon') the artist will also receive £200 of drawing materials and gifts.

World Book Day 2016

Once again there were a huge amount of entries for the design a bookmark competition. The standard was very high but eventually six winners were chosen. The children have selected their prizes from the book fair. Congratulations to the lucky winners and well done to everyone who took part.

Don't forget to use your book voucher to get one of the specially printed World Book Day books, which you can swap your voucher for, and are available from bookshops, Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco etc. Alternatively use it for a £1 disount off a book of your choice.

World Book Day 2016

Happy World Book Day

Pupils and staff have been transformed today into villains from popular books in celebation of World Book Day. Our focus book of Firebird has been well received with a theatre production on Monday and the firebird itself landing in various places around the school, currently it is in the junior library.


The book fair is opening after school today in the junior hall and will continue on Friday and Monday. Why not have a browse at the selection offered? Don't forget to bring your book voucher with you, in case you want to buy a book, as this will give you a £1 discount.


If you would like to enter the design a bookmark competition the closing date is tomorrow (Friday) lunchtime. Hand in completed entries to either myself or your teacher. Ensure that your name and class is written on the reverse of the bookmark. Winners will be announced on Monday.
Good luck and happy reading.

World Book Day 2016

World book day is 3rd March this year, which is next week.

It's the time of year when we celebrate books and reading for pleasure. Every child will be given a £1 book voucher which can be used to buy one of the books published especially for the event. These special books only cost £1 so effectively the book is free. They are available from book shops and supermarkets until 27th March but you will need to be quick as stock soon disappears.

Titles include: Kipper's Visitor

Supertato To The Rescue

Daisy And The Trouble With Jack

The Great Mouse Plot

Welcome To The World Of Norm

Star Wars: Adventures In Wild Space

Harper And The Sea Of Secrets

The Boy Who Could Do As He Liked

The vouchers can also be used as a £1 discount against any other book with a purchase price of £2.99.

As usual a book fair will be held in school it will arrive on World Book Day itself, 3rd March and will be collected on 9th March. It will be open in the Junior hall daily after school. The voucher can also be used as a discount against any of the books on the shelves.

In conjunction with the book fair a competition will be held to design a book mark. Each child will be given a book mark to decorate and create their designs on. Book marks need to be completed by end of school on Friday 4th March so that judging can take place. One lucky winner will be chosen from each year group they will be able to choose a book from the book fair as their prize.

In addition children and staff can dress up as their favourite villain.

If you would like to find out more information about World Book Day there is a brilliant website to visit:

www.worldbookday.com

Its full of games to play, quizzes to complete, details of new books, short videos featuring various authors talking about their work and much more.
 

World Book Day 2015

We had a fantastic day at school last Thursday to celebrate World Book Day. The children were transformed into many different book characters and had a really lovely day.

 The book fair arrived on Thursday and was well supported after school, don't forget that it runs every day until Wednesday next week, 11th March.

 The design a bookmark competition was very popular with a huge amount of entries. It was very difficult to choose winners but eventually a decision was made. The winners have chosen their prize from the book fair. Very well done to everyone who entered. Your bookmarks will be returned to you by your teachers so that you can use them.

Two authors visited the school this week, Chris Wormell on Monday and Anne Fine on Thursday. It was fantastic for the children to be able to listen and meet real authors and to gain an insight about how they write their stories.

Infant Competition Winners



Junior Competition Winners

World Book Day 2015

World Book Day 2015
This year World Book Day is Thursday 5th March. To help celebrate this day we are hosting various activites for everyone to take part in.

• Scholastic Book Fair is back in school from Thrsday 5th March to Wednesday 11th March. All children will receive a £1 book voucher that can be used towards the cost of a book from the book fair. There are also books printed especially for World Book Day, available from bookshops and limited supermarkets, that cost £1. Therefore if you use your voucher to buy one of those books then it is free.

• There is a competition running to design a bookmark. There will be 7 winners chosen, one from each year group, who will be able to choose a free book up to the value of £5 from the book fair. Please collect your bookmark to design from the Library. The closing date is Wednesday 4th March. Hand your finished entries to either your teacher or the librarian by this date.

• Everyone will be able to dress up as their favourite book character for the day.

• The author Anne Fine will be visiting the Junior School on 5th March. She will be speaking to Year 3-5 in the hall. She has written numerous books many of which are available to borrow from the Library.

• Chris Wormell will be visiting the Infant School on 2nd March. He is an amazing author and illustrator who has written many books.

BBC Radio 2 500 Words Short Story Competition

This is the 5th year that BBC Radio 2 have hosted the 500 word story competition and it's bigger than ever. If you are lucky enough to be one of the national winners, the presentation will be held in St James Palace attended by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. There is a brilliant website to accompany the competition  (www.bbc.co.uk/500words)  that gives you all the infromation you need. Naturally it has all the usual stuff such as rules and terms and conditions, but it also has cool stuff such as stars reading last years winning stories, tips from top authors and judges Francesca Simon, Frank Boyce and Malories Blackman. There are inspirational ideas and Alphabot the robert to give you words to include in your story when you press his tummy. Take a look at the web site there is loads for you to listen, watch and read. The closing date is 26th February 2015.
GOOD LUCK.
              

Design a Picture Competition

The pictures for the competition were sent off at the end of last term. If any of them are chosen as the national winner I will be sent an e-mail by the end of Januray. So fingers crossed. All artists were presented with a certificate in celebration assembly. Well done to all who entered.

 

 

Design a Picture

If you would like to enter the competition you need to hurry the closing date is Monday 15th December, just 4 days time!!

• Your picture needs to be A4 size and about why you like reading.
• Try to make it as colourful and eye-catching as you can.
• Remember to write your name and class on the back.
• Hand them to me on Monday.

Certificates will be given to all artists next week.

Design a Picture

A new competition is being launched from Monday 24th November.
The title is 'Why I Like Reading.'

Competition Details

• Children need to draw or paint a picture on an A4 sheet of paper. Try to make it as colourful and eye-catching as possible showing a reason why you like to read. Let your imagination run wild!!
•  The competition is open to both infant and junior age children.
•  All entries need to be handed to your teacher.
•  Closing date is Monday 15th December.
•  Remember to write your name, age and class on the back.

What can you win?

• All entrants will receive a certificate for their picture.
• Pictures will be entered for a national competition.

• If your picture is chosen as the winner of the national competition, the school will receive an amazing giant mosaic all made from LEGO bricks. That would be fantastic. 

Spooky Story Competition

Thank you to everyone who took part in the writing competition. All entries are displayed in the Libray area for you to read. Ceritificates will be given to all authors in assembly on Thursday. I will send the stories to be entered in the National Competition this week and we will be advised by 7th November if anyone from our school has been chosen as one of the lucky winners.

 

Spooky Story Competition

It's Monday again and don't forget about the spooky story writing competition. Your completed entries need to be handed into your teacher next Monday, 20th October so you only have seven days left. The story needs to be between 500-1000 words and also have your name and class on it. I'm looking forward to reading them. Good luck.

New Competition

NEW COMPETITION

Write a spookily scary story and enter our fangtastic competition. The creepier the better!

•  Your story needs to be between 500-1000 words.
•   Must include your name and class  (so we know who to give the prizes to!)
•   Be handed to your teacher by 20th October.

 What can you win?
 This is the best bit!!

• Two winners from each class will be chosen to receive a certificate.
• Their stories will be displayed in the Library. They will also be entered for a national competition.
• If one of our entries are lucky enough to win the national competition the author of the story will receive a personalised, signed copy of a new book called 'Witchworld'.

Plus

•  The Library will get ten new books.

So get writing and don't forget you have to be in it to win it!
Good Luck.