Carnegie 2021 shortlist announced

The Shortlist is out.  We are so excited to start reading these.

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

Fountains of Silence by Rutu Sepetys

The Girl Who Became a Tree by Joseph Coelho

The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson

Look Both Way by Jason Reynolds

On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

Run Rebel by Manjeet Mann

The Lorax is 50

We can't believe the Lorax is 50 this year.  Revisit the story here:

This story, which chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax who "speaks for the trees" and confronts the Once-ler who causes environmental destruction, is so important at a time when we are thinking hard about how we treat our planet.  Naturally we have this book in our Discovery Library

World Book Day 2021 Shopping

All our students should have their World Book Day tokens by this Friday. We hope they enjoy buying books as much as we do!

International Women's Day 2021

Today, Monday 8 March, is International Women's Day, and we can't think of a better way to celebrate than with this fantastic video of the amazing author, poet and dancer Maya Angelou and her empowering poem

 'Still I Rise'.

You can read the full poem here.

Maya Angelou April 4 1928 - May 28 2014

We hope you have a great International Women's Day.

Reading Challenge Competition

Today, to mark World Book Day, we are launching our Reading Challenge competition.

Our students are invited to try four tasks of their choice and evidence their completion by sending a photo, a video, a book review or a Twitter book review to their Librarian.  Why not join in, and challenge your family and friends to some reading?   

M C Grammar World Book Day song

This is mad!   

The first ever World Book Day song. 

World Book Day Author and Illustrator Academy

 

The World Book Day Author & Illustrator Academy is a fantastic free resource.  So much help and advice on writing, illustrating and making, from loads of amazing professionals who are the the best in their fields.

Our favourite has to be 

Humza Arshad and Henry White.

How did we not know how funny Humza is???