Book Club At The Theater!

The year 3 book club visited London on Wednesday to watch the musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Over the past few weeks they have been meeting weekly to share the story, discuss the characters, settings and plot, design new rooms for Willy Wonka's factory and come up with ideas for their own delicious chocolaty treat!

With plenty of time to spare when we arrived in London the group explored Trafalgar Square, Convent Garden and Leicester Square, where they had the chance to look inside M&M World and the Nickelodeon store...

Frances Hardinge Visits Broadford!

On Tuesday, winner of the Costa Book Award, Frances Hardinge, visited Broadford! Our year 6 Spinebreakers were ready and waiting to ask her questions about her work as an author, where she gets her inspiration for writing stories from and how she felt about being the first children's author to win Costa's Book of the Year 2015 award since Philip Pullman in 2001!

Watch the Spinebreakers interview Frances...

Following her interview, Frances spoke to our Year 6 pupils. She promoted the books she has had published to date and read a section from her story, The Lie Tree. A group of our year 5 and 6 pupils were given the opportunity to work with Frances in the afternoon, creating their own 2 sentence scary stories.

We have several books by Frances, including The Lie Tree. Visit the library to borrow or reserve your copy today!

Spinebreakers Choose New Books From Waterstones

The Year 4 and Maple Class Spinebreakers took a trip into Romford yesterday to visit Waterstones. They were given the opportunity to choose two new books each for the school library...

Teni chose two titles from Cathy Cassidy's collection, Fortune Cookie and Broken Heart Club.

Ty enjoys stories with a bit of humour, so he chose Tom Gate's Top of the Class and The Twits by Roadl Dahl.

Jack had done quite a bit of research before the trip and had a list of books he wanted to look out for. In the end he went with David Walliams' new book, The World's Worst Children and Sarah Lean's Hero.

Georgia's picks were, Ice Lolly by Jean Ure and Flying Fergus.

Another fantastic story by Roadl Dahl, Danny went for Danny the Champion of the World and Kes Gray's Jack Beechwhistle Attack of the Giant Slugs!

Having read the first book in the series, Temira was eager to get Danger is Everywhere. As a fan of Zoella, she was also keen to read Girl Online on Tour.

After the difficult task of choosing books from the wide selection Waterstones had to offer, they enjoyed hot chocolates and cake.