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.

Book Fair Update - Raffle Winner Announced!

We had a very special guest at yesterday's Book Fair...

Clifford the Big Red Dog joined us, and was pleased to see so many faces! He will be joining us again after school, so come and visit us in the old hall.

All books, stationery and posters are half price. There are some great titles, starting from just £1.50! Morning Nursery have the chance to take a look at 11.30 this morning.

We held our first raffle yesterday, with Charanjit Ubhi being the lucky winner of £15 worth of book tokens to spend at tonight's Book Fair! Congratulations Charanjit, we look forward to seeing you after school.

A second raffle will be held today, you will automatically be entered when you purchase a book.

Book Fair Next Week - Competition Details Included

Next week we will be holding a half price book fair after school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday! There will be lots of brilliant titles available, starting from just £1.50! 

The sale will take place in the old hall from 3.15. Morning nursery can come along on Tuesday and Wednesday from 11.30am to see what we have on offer, but for now here is a sneak-peak of inside the cases...

DON'T FORGET!

We will be holding a prize draw - anyone who buys a book from the book fair on Monday will be entered into a prize draw, the winner will be announced on the blog and will be invited back to spend £15 at the book fair the following day. This will repeat on Tuesday with another winner being announced! On Wednesday the first 20 people to buy a book will receive a free piece of stationary or poster!

The Spinebreakers Interview Knife And Packer

During Knife and Packer's visit on Friday, our year 4 Spinebreakers were given the opportunity to ask them a few questions...

Their book, Badly Drawn Beth, has been nominated for a Laugh Out Loud Award. Altogether, twelve books have been nominated for the award, and have been split into three categories: Picture Book, 6-8 Years, and 9-13 Years. We have all the books available to borrow here in the library, if you would like to vote for your favourite story, then come along to the library and tell Miss Sparkes what story you found the funniest. All votes must be put forward by 10 June 2016. The winning books will be announced on 21 June at the Lyric Theatre in the West End!

Knife And Packer Books On Sale Next Week!

On Friday next week we will have children's authors, Knife and Packer, visiting. Some of their most popular books will be on sale next week from the library. On the day of their visit they will be signing them during lunchtime. If you would like to purchase one before they arrive please see Miss Sparkes in the library; we will then hold on to your copy ready for the authors to sign them when they visit.

What's available to buy?

The Temple of Baboon, £5.99

Moldfinger, £5.99

King Pong, £5.99

Creature from the Pink Lagoon, £5.99

When Earwax Attacks, £5.99

Badly Drawn Beth, £6.99