Monday 30 June 2014
Friday 27 June 2014
Tom Palmer's 'Foul Play: Brazil' - A World Cup Adventure - Chapter 13
Thursday 26 June 2014
First News Issue 419 - 3 July 2014
Check out the new newspapers we have on offer, First News, the weekly newspaper for young people!
Just a few of the articles inside issue 419...
Computers to replace teachers?
Win K'NEX building set and an iPad mini
It's Rough Copy
Sizzling summer read - Jeremy Strong prepares to release his 100th book
World Cup comes to life
Adventurous baby koala
Win K'NEX building set and an iPad mini
It's Rough Copy
Sizzling summer read - Jeremy Strong prepares to release his 100th book
World Cup comes to life
Adventurous baby koala
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Premier Reading League Winners Tour The Emirates Stadium!
On Monday 23 June the winners of the Premier Reading League toured The Emirates stadium!
Look at the circle on the bottom left - below the glass is a time capsule holding 25 items from Arsenal's history. The capsule contains; a list of all Arsenal players ever, Tony Adams' captain's armband, piece of Highbury turf, every Arsenal home shirt, replica model of Highbury, marble from Marble Halls, aerial picture of Highbury, a Highbury flag, record of all matches played at Highbury, picture of Ian Wright's celebration after record breaking goal, history of Arsenal from 1886 - present (Video), History of Crest, signed shirt of the current squad, picture of all Arsenal managers, pictures of all captains in sequence, video montage of memorable moments, replica of clock from Clock End, copy of newspaper the day the capsule was buried, picture of old North Bank crowded, picture or replica of all trophies won, a Highbury match ticket, David Rocastle shirt, video guided tour of Highbury, picture of the famous back 4 and fans' message book.
After each season the pitch is taken up and new turf is laid. They are already preparing the grass for when the new season begins in August! Each blade of grass has to be no higher than 2cms.
Outside the stadium they had pictures of all the players from Arsenal. Yinka and Jack copy Olivier Giroud's goal celebration.
We got behind the desk where footballers and managers are interviewed. Jack had everyone laughing with his impression of Arsene Wenger!
There was also a museum, here we discovered more about the history of Arsenal, did you know it cost 400 million pound to rebuild the stadium back in 2006.
The stadium holds over 60,000 supporters.
The home changing room was impressive with it's jacuzzi and physio room.
We took in the views from the sideline while sitting in Arsene Wenger's and the players' seats!
Look out for more chances to win tickets for matches and stadium tours when we return in the Autumn term.
Tuesday 24 June 2014
Monday 23 June 2014
Friday 20 June 2014
Literacy Trust Summer Reading Challenge - One Week To Go!
A HUGE well done to Raheem, Jaseem, Dylan Parker, Dylan Houston, Kingsley, Prince, Spencer, Success, Hakeem, Daniel, Jack, Louise, Nikel, Kieran, Lenny, Tumelo and Jamari who have all completed the Beast Quest challenge.
Zaynab, Lillie Mersh, Emily, Ja'Shayla, Aimee, Haliya, Olivia, Grace, Iman, Sophie Adams, Abena, Lilly Reynolds, Liaba, Sharna, Sophie Prior, Emma, Ella-Louise, Georgia and Deborah are all SUPER READERS for reading all seven books in the first Rainbow Magic series, earning themselves certificates and copies of their favourite Rainbow Magic books.
Only one week remains in the competition so make sure you hand your completed reading logs in at the library before Friday lunchtime. The children who have completed the challenge will be entered into a prize draw where two winners will receive an eReader, book vouchers, Rainbow Magic or Beast Quest merchandise, and a visit from Rainbow Fairy or Nanook and Wizard Aduro from the Beast Quest series!
More New Books!
More new books for the library!
Please take your time to read and review our latest books. Titles include Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Dad in the World, The Peppers and the International Magic Guys.
Tom Palmer's 'Foul Play: Brazil' - A World Cup Adventure - Chapter 8 (You Decide!)
What happens next in the story is up to you, pick you favourite storyline from the three options below. Once you have made your decision let Miss Sparkes know and we will send our votes off to Tom Palmer.
Option one:
Charlotte and Danny don't meet Beacon, because it is a very bad idea to meet people you have 'met' on the Internet. But they do speak by email. It is clear that he is a brilliant blogger with lots of readers. They agree to go back into the Amazon to gather information about the animals for him to use in his blog. But their flight back to the Amazon crashes and our two heroes are pitched into a terrifying survival story, hunted by both deadly animals and old enemy of Danny's who is determined to destroy the Amazon rainforest to make billions - and working with MANU.
Option two:
Beacon is not a real blogger. He is in league with MANU. His blog is a trap for Danny and Charlotte. He tries to hand over Danny and Charlotte to the ghost woman. Charlotte is captured. Danny gets away. Then MANU contact Danny to say he can have Charlotte back if he hands over their bottles he took when he escaped from them. These chapters will be mostly in a city setting.
Option three:
Danny and Charlotte tell the police about what they have found out and - now that there is less civil unrest in Brazil - the police listen and together they catch MANU. Danny and Charlotte then decide to go and watch the Costa Rica game, hoping that England can stay in the tournament. Somehow. Because if England go out, they will have to go home and back to school.
Read Chapter nine of Tom Palmer's 'Foul Play: Brazil' on Monday!
Thursday 19 June 2014
New In - Graphic Novels!
We have 21 new graphic novels in the library this week; you can find them on display above our Free Reader books. Graphic novels attract children and motivate them to read. They are particularly popular with reluctant readers. The Graffex series of books are exciting, fast-moving retellings of well known stories in the graphic novel format.
Titles include:
Treasure Island, Frankenstein, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Beowulf, David Copperfield, White Fang, Odyssey, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Wuthering Heights, Julius Caesar, Gulliver's Travels, Great Expectations, Three Musketeers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Merchant of Venice, The Last of the Mohicans and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Tuesday 17 June 2014
New Books - Challenging Classics For More Confident Readers
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Take a look at these fantastic children's classics!
For key stage two we have the Puffin Classics - Heidi, What Katy Did, The Little Princess, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. There are a mixture of books for both boys and girls so be sure to pick up a copy on your next visit!
There are some great children's classics for our key stage one pupils too, with titles that include - The Jungle Book, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Heidi, Little Women, The Railway Children, The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, The Wind in the Willows, Gulliver's Travels, Peter Pan, Treasure Island and Black Beauty! Groups from Cedar and Cherry have already begun reading copies of The Jungle Book and Alice in Wonderland and cannot wait to read to more from the collection!
Monday 16 June 2014
Friday 13 June 2014
Premier Reading League Winners Announced!
Congratulations to Kingsley, Raheem, Prince, Yinka and Jaseem, who make up the team, Premier Gunners. They have come first place in the reading league with a total of 318 points! All Time Winners with members, Jack, Fletcher, Toby, Tyler and Kieran, came second as they earned 182 points. The two extra tickets we had up for grabs went to Hakeem and Success for earning the most points from the remaining players. The winning pupils will be treated to a tour of the Emirates Stadium on Monday 23rd June!
Thursday 12 June 2014
First News Issue 416 - 12 June 2014
Check out the new newspapers we have on offer, First News, the weekly newspaper for youing people!
Just a few of the articles inside issue 416...
D-Day Remembered
Auschwitz: What is it?
Tackling Food Waste
Welcome to the World of Timmy Failure
Snorkelling with Sharks
Hamilton Helps Haiti
Auschwitz: What is it?
Tackling Food Waste
Welcome to the World of Timmy Failure
Snorkelling with Sharks
Hamilton Helps Haiti
Wednesday 11 June 2014
World Cup Reading Area
With the World Cup starting tomorrow we have put together a football-themed reading area. Here you will find a selection of football stories, World Cup newspaper clippings and results from the latest games. Every day during the Wolrd Cup children's author, Tom Palmer, will be creating a new chapter for his story, Foul Play: Brazil. The chapters will be available to read here on the blog from today until July 14. There will also be copies in the library for you to borrow. Read chapter one here.
Thank you to Jacob Owsley for kindly sending in some football newspaper articles for our reading area. If you have any at home that you would like to donate then please drop them off at the library.
Tuesday 10 June 2014
World Cup Reading Selfie Competition
Here's you chance to win a signed copy of Frank Lampard's latest book, Frankie and the World Cup Carnival!
The National Literacy Trust want you to enter by having your photo taken holding something that you have read that relates to the World Cup. It could be a newspaper, book or magazine. To win the signed copy of Frank Lampard's book, one child will be chosen at random. Please make sure you send your photos in before the competition ends on Friday 4 July.
You can also get involved by tweeting your photos to @Literacy_Trust and/or use the hashtag #NLTworldcup.
Saturday 7 June 2014
Wanted - World Cup Newspaper Pull-Outs
We are collecting World Cup articles and pull-outs from newspapers to display in the library for children to read when they visit. If you have any at home that you would like to donate we would very much appreciate it.
Thursday 5 June 2014
First News Issue 415 - 5 June 2014
Check out the new newspapers we have on offer, First News, the weekly newspaper for youing people!
Just a few of the articles inside issue 415...
Britains Got Talent Exclusive
Living under the sea
Super Sergio
The Earth made from selfies
Puppy power
Horrid Henry turns 20!
Tuesday 3 June 2014
WW1 Reading Challenge - Start Earning Your Medals Today!
Take part in our new WW1 reading challenge today!
We remember the soldiers who fought in WW1 one hundreds on by purchasing a selection of fiction and non-fiction books to support this new challenge. Simply read your way through three of the books to earn yourself a reading medal.
All of our WW1 linked texts are on display and available to borrow from today!
Take a look at some of the new titles available to borrow...
The Story of the First World War
The First World War destroyed 21 million lives. It conjures up images of barbed wire, muddy trenches, blasted tree trunks and shell-pocketed battlefields. This book asks what caused it, what it was like to fight, and why it is still remembered with horror a hundred years after it began.
World War 1 Tales - The Pigeon Spy
Two hundred US soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines. The Germans are firing on them. Their own side is dropping shells on them. Their only hope is to get a message out before it's too late. Can on heroic homing pigeon make it 25 miles through enemy territory in time?
World War 1
From deadly battles at Verdun, Ypres and the Somme to the first fighter planes taking to the skies; German U-Boat blockades; rationing on the home front and the 'dreadful duo' of Hindenburg and Lendendorff, this book tells all about the Great War.
Private Peaceful
From the battlefields of the First World War, Thomas Peaceful relives memories of his childhood and family life in the countryside. But the clock ticks on, and every moment spent remembering the past brings Thomas closer to the one that will change his life forever.
Archie's War
Archie was ten years old in 1914 when his uncle gave him this scrapbook. the empty pages soon began to fill with characters Archie made up and stories about his family and home in the East End of London. A few months later the First World War broke out and Archie's world started to change. But he kept with his scrapbook, a unique history of one young person's life during the Great War.
Brother's at War
At the turn of the 20th century four brothers were born to the Baker family, Lionel, Arthur, Maurice and Harold. Over a hundred years later, Eliza, one of Arthur's great-grandchildren, and her mother, Sarah, decided to find out about these ancestors. They delved into the past to uncover for themselves the story of Lionel, Arthur, Maurice and Harold during the First World War.
You Want to be in the Trenches in World War One!
Get ready as a new army recruit you are about the be sent 'up the line' and discover how tough life is in the trenches. It's appalling!
The Story of World War One for Children
Discover the First World War - a conflict so vast that it was once called the 'war to end all wars'.
Frightful First World War
Discover all the gory details about the Frightful First World War, including why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets and what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses.
The Only Girl in the World
When Dennis, a young English soldier fighting in France, meets Helene, theirs is a love at first sight - a secret love. He begs her to wait for his return. But as the was grows more violent, Helene's anxiety increases. is her loyalty in vain? Will Dennis come back to her?
Soldier Dog
It's 1917. In the trenches of France, miles from home, Stanley is a boy fighting a man's war. He is a dog handler, whose dog must be so loyal that he will cross no-man's-land alone under heavy fire to return to Stanley's side, carrying a message that could save countless lives. But this journey is fraught with danger, and only the bravest will survive.
Want to know more about the First World War?
Click on the soldiers above to visit the BBC website and find out more about joining the army in 1914 and what the soldier's lives were like.
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