School Library
School Library Opening Times
The school library is up and running after having a re-vamp during the beginning of the school year.
Children can now choose books either during school class visits, at lunchtime or after school. We are open every night after school from 3.15 until 3.45 (closed Friday) and parents are very welcome to come and have a look around the library and choose books to read with your child at home.
We look forward to a visit from you soon!
Librarian's 2024/2025
Meet our librarian's. They are in the library, each lunch, to help scan books being loaned. These children can be identified by thier green librarian badge, that they proudly wear.
Lunchtimes
Competition Time!
All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less. We would love children of all abilities to enter; spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity! 50 finalists will be invited to go to a glamorous grand final at Buckingham Palace in February next year, where the bronze, silver and gold winners in each category will have their stories read out by celebrities. There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library. Not only that, the winning stories will receive an original illustration from Dapo Adeola, Nigel Parkinson, Lydia Monks, Momoko Abe, Rob Biddulph or Yasmeen Ismail.
"Write a story you would love to read". BBC's 500 Words, the UK's largest children's writing competition for children aged 5-11, is open for entries now! Submit before the the competition closes at 9pm on Friday 8 November 2024. This competition is to be completed ONLINE. To submit your entry, visit... https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/500-words
Author-Tom Palmer
On Thursday 4th July, a famous author paid a visit to KS1 and KS2. Tom Palmer is a British author of children's books. He was born in Leeds and was always encouraged to read by his mother. He would read football articles to gain interest and his writing progressed from there. He graduated from university and worked in libraries and book shops before becoming a published author. He always followed his dreams and his first book was published in 2002! We thoroughly enjoyed listening to Toms experiences and inspirations. Tom was also very impressed with our school library, our passion for reading but most of all OUR CHILDREN! He was amazed by their behaviour, questions and responses! Well Done STOC.
Wood Street Mission
On Monday 22nd April, every child in school got to choose FIVE free books to take home and keep! The charity Wood Street Mission, kindly donated the books to our school. They know how much we value books and realise what a difference reading can make to learning.
World Book Day 2024
This half term, reading tokens have been given to children who are good reading role models. These children might ask good questions, get stuck into reading for pleasure, or be a good reading ambassador in their class. The tokens were placed into a raffle and drawn in assembly. Well done to our winners! We hope you enjoy them at home.
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We had a special visit from Peter Rabbit in our library too!
We held a competition to see who could guess the amount of books we have in our library! The total amount is an amazing 9798 books in total! Our winner guessed closest with an impressive 9999! Well Done!
We read and shared our favourite stories with one another...
We created personalised bookmarks.
Librarians 2023/2024
Our Year 5 Librarians
Our Year 6 Librarians
Reading Buddies
Our reading buddies enjoy taking responsibility during lunchtime...
Competitions
Before Christmas, children had the opportunity to enter a poetry competition. They were asked to create a short paragraph about a Crazy Creature/Super Pet. All entries were sent off and this week they announced the winners! WINNERS-if you would like your poem to be published, you must return your consent forms! Well done to everyone that took part! If you were not successful this time, please don't give up! There is currently a new competition you can enter called The Poetry Bus/Once Upon a Time! Entry forms are available in the library. If you would like further information please visit youngwriters.co.uk We can't wait to see your poems published in their very own book!
News
Poet Matt Goodfellow visits our school November 2023
NATIONAL POETRY DAY! Thursday 5th October, our school arranged for a local poet, Elayne Ogbeta, to come in and read some of her poetry to the children. Many of Elayne's poems are written in Jamaican patois. Classes thoroughly enjoyed sessions with Elayne throughout the day. During lunchtime, children enjoyed visiting the library to read to Elayne, ask questions or read poems from our new collection to their friends. We had lots of fun and can't wait for Elayne's next visit!s
We are very fortunate to have such an amazing library at our school. Each class has their own section and class author. Children, parents and staff can loan two books at a time and enjoy reading for pleasure.
Parent Visits
Class Visits
2R love to read! As a class, we visit the library every Thursday and choose a new story to take home.
Year 5H! We enjoyed visiting the library and choosing books to take home!
Acorn class visit the library!
Year 1C! We loved listening to 'The Gruffalo' by our class author, Julia Donaldson.
Year 2R! Our class author is Roald Dahl and we have loved reading 'The Twits' in class! We can't wait for our weekly visits, so we can loan more books to take home.
Year 1P love to read! We enjoyed listening to 'Zog' by our class author, Julia Donaldson!
Let’s celebrate!
Book reviews are a favourite for some of our children!
Our Year 5 librarians took part in ordering new books for our school library.
Our Year 4 librarians helped to organise our new books.
Year 1
Year 1's class author is Julia Donaldson. Year 1CL have created a setting based on their favourite story! We have displayed these in our school library.
Year 2
Year 2L have created dream catchers from one of their favourite Roald Dahl stories, The BFG! How amazing are they? Take a closer look when you're next in the library!
Year 4
