Meet the Spinebreakers for 2016/17!

Here are our new Spinebreakers for 2016/17. They will be our link between the classroom and library, promoting new books, competitions and challenges. They will welcome and interview authors and illustrator who visit our school, as well as, borrowing books from Hilldene Library and purchasing new books from Waterstones.

Year 1 Spinebreakers

 

Year 2 Spinebreakers

 

 

Year 3 Spinebreakers

 

 

 

 Year 4 Spinebreakers

 

 Year 5 Spinebreakers

 

 

Year 6 Spinebreakers

 

Get Caught Reading Summer Competition Returns!

We are running our Get Caught Reading competition again this summer...

The competition will run from now until Monday 12 September, with the winner being announced on the Friday of that week. One winner will receive a £10 book token and two runners up will receive a £5 book token each.

To be in with a chance of winning have a picture of you reading taken during the holidays and get an adult to share it with us on Facebook, or print it out and hand it in when we return in September.

Here are some examples from last year to get you you started...

Returning Books

From next week we will begin collecting in LIBRARY books from pupils in key stage one. For every book a child returns they will receive a raffle ticket for the end of year raffle. During the last full week of term four names will be pulled from the hat, each winner will choose a new book of their choice to keep.

Premier Reading Winners At The Hockey Champions Trophy!

Congratulations to The Brownie Girls - Lilly Reynolds, Chloe Kirk, Ja'shayla Cousins Okolie, Lillie Mersh and Sonia Lewis who came second in the Premier Reading League for the Summer Term. In first place, with 50 points, was Teni Adu, Harley Boland, Tia Himuyandi, Elina Joshi and Alisha March. The winning teams where joined by Samuel Murcia and Ranita Ariyibi who earned the most points individually.

As a reward for their reading efforts they visited the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre at the Olympic Park on Monday to watch the Men's Hockey Champions Trophy. They watched two games on the day, the first was Great Britain v Korea. Great Britain won with a score of 4-1. The second game was Germany v Australia, all Teni's cheering paid off with Australia winning with the final score being 4-3. Due to the poor weather conditions we were unable to stay to watch the last game of the day where Belgium beat India, 2-1.

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.