Book Signing After School Today

Don't forget to come along and meet our special guest after school! Children's author and illustrator Louise Yates will be selling and signing books in the Early Years area after school.

Take a look at the books on offer...

A Small Surprise - £5.99

A spectacular tale of circus life filled with perilous acts of boldness and bravery and a small surprise!

Frank and Teddy Make Friends - £5.99

Meet Professor Frank Mouse. While he's very clever and very inventive, he's also very shy. Frank needs a friend - someone to teach him that true friendship is all about sharing.

Dog Loves Books - £6.99

Dog loves books about dinosaurs, and dog loves books about aliens: in fact Dog loves all books! Dog has his own bookshops, although he doesn't have many customers. But that's alright, because when Dog is surrounded by books, he is never short of friends or fun.

Dog Loves Drawing - £5.99

Dog loves books! But one day he receives a very strange book in the post - it's blank. Dog soon realises that this book is not for reading, but for drawing in! Before long Dog doodles himself into a new world, full of friends, surprises and adventure.

Dog Loves Counting - £6.99

Dog can't get to sleep. He loves books so much that he just can't stop reading. Dog tries counting sheep, but it's not working - perhaps there are some other creatures he can count? Soon dog is off on an adventure, finding friends and numbers in unexpected places.

Come Along And Visit The Book Fair Tomorrow



Don't forget to pop along to our book fair tomorrow after school. You'll find a variety of half price books suitable for all!

Take a sneaky peak at the books you'll find on offer...

Inside the early years case...

Titles include: The Scarecrows' Wedding, Pig the Pug, The Day the Crayons Quit, Shark in the Bath, The Fairy Tale Hairdresser and Cinderella, Dragon Jelly and Monsters Love Underpants.

Inside the Age 6+ case...

Titles include: The Amelia Jane Collection, Baby Aliens Got My Teacher, Temple Run, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, Where's Wally and The Monster Story Teller.

For our more confident readers...

Titles include: Pippa Morgan's Diary, The Butterfly Club, The Minecraft Blockopedia, Deadly 60, Goosebumps, Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Long Haul.

For every purchase made you'll receive a free Tom Gates bookmark!

Swashbuckle Reading Challenge For KS1 Coming Soon!

The National Literacy Trust have announced their latest reading challenge. The challenge sees children from KS1 sharing Swashbuckle stories and completing activities across a pirate themed reading adventure!

 

The challenge will begin on Wednesday 13 May. Each week the KS1 children will hear a different Swashbuckle stories and complete one of the supporting activities; there are five in total. The blog will be updated weekly with the relevant links so if your child misses a story they can catch up at home.

 As always there are fantastic prizes up for grabs. One grand-prize winner will receive an eReader, £50 in book tokens and a one-year subscription to Swashbuckle Magazine; with the winner's school being visited by Gem (pictured above) from Swashbuckle Magazine and a year's subscription to five CBeebies Magazines of their choice!

Additionally, ten runners-up will each receive a one-year subscription to Swashbuckle Magazine.

Winners will be chosen through a random prize draw. Please check back on Wednesday 13 May for the first of five stories.

Do You Have A Question For Louise Yates?

On Tuesday we will be visited by children's author and poet, Louise Yates. After school there will be the opportunity to purchase one of her books and have it signed. We will be based the KS1 classrooms, here is the list of books that will be on sale;

A Small Surprise - £5.99

A spectacular tale of circus life filled with perilous acts of boldness and bravery and a small surprise!

Frank and Teddy Make Friends - £5.99

Meet Professor Frank Mouse. While he's very clever and very inventive, he's also very shy. Frank needs a friend - someone to teach him that true friendship is all about sharing.

Dog Loves Books - £6.99

Dog loves books about dinosaurs, and dog loves books about aliens: in fact Dog loves all books! Dog has his own bookshops, although he doesn't have many customers. But that's alright, because when Dog is surrounded by books, he is never short of friends or fun.

Dog Loves Drawing - £5.99

Dog loves books! But one day he receives a very strange book in the post - it's blank. Dog soon realises that this book is not for reading, but for drawing in! Before long Dog doodles himself into a new world, full of friends, surprises and adventure.

Dog Loves Counting - £6.99

Dog can't get to sleep. He loves books so much that he just can't stop reading. Dog tries counting sheep, but it's not working - perhaps there are some other creatures he can count? Soon dog is off on an adventure, finding friends and numbers in unexpected places.

The Spinebreakers' Sharing Assembly

This morning our Spinebreakers had their sharing assembly. They took it in turns to talk about what they have been getting up to since September. Here are the videos that were shared during the assembly;



Year 3/4 Spinebreakers Select New Books From Waterstones

Before the Easter holidays, our year 3/4 Spinebreakers visited Waterstones in Romford to choose some new stories for our library - all of which can now be found in the Spinebreaker area along the corridor.

With very few books from the Sea Quest series, Harry was pleased to find one to add to our small collection. Along with a copy of the popular Minecraft guide.

Candice had no trouble in choosing to great additions to our library stock! She went for A Wonderlandiful World and Frances the Royal Family Fairy.

Sienna picked out two stories that she was sure would impress her friends, Sleep Overs and Wigglesbottom Primary The Toilet Ghost.

Like Harry, Ayomide added another guide book from the Minecraft series to our collection, along with a Battle of the Beasts book.

The Rainbow Magic Fairies proved popular with Elina choosing a copy of Katie the Kitten Fairy. She also picked out a book with a character we hadn't come across before, Claude in Claude on the Slopes.

Athen went for Michael Morpurgo's twist on a classic, Pinocchino. He really enjoys the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, so he went for one he hadn't read before, The Last Straw.

Iasha picked out the latest book in the Dork Diaries series, as well as Fortune Cookie by Jean Ure.

New Books - The Hobbit

Following the show of the Hobbit on Wednesday we have ordered in several copies of the book. Grab them while they are here because I'm sure they won't stick around for long!

Latest Issue of Aquila Magazine

April's issue of Aquila is now available to borrow from the library. The theme for this one is the French Revolution. Inside you will find articles including;

 

- Revolution time line and facts

- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

- Who was Marie Antoinette

- Brain teasers and competitions