🎅 Crisis at Christmas 2018

Thousands of people will be homeless this Christmas.

Each year, some of the staff at The Ravensbourne School choose to make a donation to Crisis instead of sending Christmas cards. This year the total raised is £300, which will reserve 10 places for homeless people this Christmas.

The BBC reported that this year almost 600 homeless people have died on the streets, a rise of 24% over 5 years.  Crisis is a charity which offers shelter, companionship and life-changing services to people who are homeless.  To find out more visit the Crisis website.

🎅Books into Films at Christmas 2018

Why not enjoy a good book this Christmas?  Come and browse and borrow from our display of Christmas books and books with a film tie-in on TV over the Christmas holidays!  

School Librarian, Helen Smith, has compiled her fantastic annual list of Christmas book and film tie-ins that are on TV over the Christmas period.  This year, she has also included book recommendations by fellow librarians and books to watch out for next year, including the new title by Angie Thomas, award winning author of The Hate U Give!  Please click on the link to view: Christmas TV List 2018.

We have lots of great titles in the both the Discovery and War Memorial libraries, including those in our ‘new books’ section so please feel free to browse and borrow.  We just ask that you remember to return any you borrow to the Library in January!

The Wicked Young Writers Awards 2019 - Writing Competition

This fantastic creative writing competition, in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, is now in its ninth year!  

Writing subject: The organisers want your writing to be personal to you, so you can write on whatever topic you like in whatever creative form you like!  That might be a story, play or poem.

Length: 750 words

Open to: 5 to 25 year olds

Prizes: All winners will win four tickets to see the London production of WICKED at the Apollo Victoria Theatre and an opportunity to meet cast members after the show along with an exclusive backstage tour. They will also win £50 worth of books/e-book tokens to spend plus loads more prizes.

Deadline: Monday, 18th March 2019

Click here for more information and how to enter.

The Great TRS Bake Off competition 2018

Twenty two of our KS3 students took part in the TRS Bake Off competition and were asked to create a cake around the theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the much loved Roald Dahl novel.

The winners were:
⭐First prize - Joshua B 7 Hume
⭐Second prize - Elodie L 8 Bordeaux
⭐Joint third prize - Michael H 9 Tao and Jessica T 7 Hume

According to  Ms Beckford, the TRS cooking guru, all the entries were amazing and executed the brief brilliantly. 

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone involved!