Turn on the subtitles

Wow, how did we miss this?

The Guardian have pointed our that, during lockdown, we should be turning on the TV subtitles to boost children's literacy.  Read the full article here and watch the YouTube video created by turnonthesubtitles.org below.

Axel Scheffler

A very useful book about Coronavirus published by Nosy Crow, written for children and illustrated by the wonderful Axel Scheffler, illustrator of the well loved Gruffalo books, is available to view for free here.  Such a helpful book and the illustrations offer the opportunity for many of us to take a well deserved trip down memory lane!

Comic Art Colouring

Not strictly reading, but we know many of our students love graphic novels and some are budding comic artists, so we thought this free Comic Art Colouring activity, and the links and information about the various comic artists, from the the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, would be of interest.

Dan Freeman

The best selling author of Unstoppable, and the 
Jamie Johnson books, Dan Freedman will be joining Riverside Studios for a Zoom Webinar on Thursday 23 April at 7 pm.  
Register for free here.

Welcome back to the Summer Term

We hope you found new and interesting ways to enjoy your Easter 2020, certainly one to remember!

Don't forget to check out our Word of the Week page each Monday.  It might just be the word you are looking for!! 

5 tips for cybersecurity

We plan to post about free eBooks you might want to read over the Easter break.  But before we do we would like you to watch this brilliant YouTube video that Mrs Nolan from Eden Park High School brought to our attention.