This week's AR points update: how is your class doing?

The following students have achieved silver or gold stars this week:

Silver:
Helen Ross (7L)
Isabel Holsborough (7N)
Lewis Hopkins (7N)
 
Gold:
Kate Evans (7E)
Katie Penn (7N)     

Congratulations to all our readers and quizzers...keep up the good work!

Oakwood Book Club hits the Library for the Summer term

This term has seen the arrival of a new group of Year 5 students in the Oakwood Book Club. The ten girls and boys from Oakwood School visit the Library every Wednesday morning to take part in the Book Club with Mrs Mayer-Khan.

As a group, the children are reading The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird. They are also allowed to borrow individual books and have chosen a fantastic range of titles from Percy Jackson to Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Fun !

The students are all keen readers and have plenty of interesting opinions on books...and life in general!

Book recommendation by Flo Raeyen and Amy Heather (7N)

Noughts and Crosses is an outstanding, emotional book about forbidden love. Callum is a white-skinned Nought, whereas Sephy is a black-skinned Cross. This book shows how race does not matter to those who are in love.

We would recommend this book to older readers and people who are interested in action-romance novels.

We would rate this book an 8.5/10














This book is also available in the Library as a graphic novel.

Buy your Rob's Festival wristband in the Library!

This year's Rob's Festival wristbands, in a funky yellow, blue and turquoise design (as modelled by Miss Mobbs!) are now on sale at £2 each. The Library team are also selling the bands, so please ask us if you would like to buy one and support the Festival.

Author Nikki Sheehan to visit the Library

The Library team are looking forward to welcoming Nikki Sheehan on Thursday 26th May. Nikki, author of Who Framed Klaris Cliff? will be presenting her new book Swan Boy.

 

Swan Boy tells the story of Johnny who moves house and has to deal with bullying at his new school. Johnny finds the power to stand up and face the bully from a surprising source. This book falls into the magical realism genre and presents an original take on finding the courage to defeat one's fears.

 

Click on the link below for more information on Swan Boy.

http://www.nikkisheehan.com/

Nikki will spend lunchtime with us in the Library. If you would like to join us, please speak to your librarians as soon as possible.

AR Points - follow your form's progress!

 

Weekly updates of the Year 7 and Year 8 Accelerated Reading league tables for the Summer Term will now be posted on this blog.  All students who achieve 60% or more on a quiz earn AR points which are then added to their form's points total. The tables are updated every Friday, so log on to the Library blog to check your form's progress!

 

As you know, students who achieve 100% on an AR quiz earn a coloured star on the AR board in the library. We have also introduced silver and gold stars. Silver stars are awarded to those students who achieve 100% on five quizzes during the term, and gold stars go to those who achieve 100% on ten quizzes. 

 

Each week we will post the names of those students who have earned a silver or gold star. Here are the students who have reached silver or gold so far this term:

 

          Silver

 Joseph Jason (7A)                         

 Katherine Evans (7E)

 Rachel Thompson (7E)

 Thomas Groth (7E)

 Jamie Godfrey (7L)

  Katie Penn (7N)

  Joshua Smith (7N)

  Tia Hall (7R)

  Harrison Herbert (8E)

  Ameena Ayub (8S)

 

 

          Gold

   Joshua Smith (7N)

 

 

 

 

Well done to all our Year 7 and Year 8 students for some fantastic reading!

 

 

Dedicated to National Limerick Day, Poetry and Shakespeare (just)

There once was a school in St A
Who heard it was Limerick Day
The Library had time
To make up this rhyme
Coz where there's a Will there's a way
                           (get it?!).

 
HAPPY NATIONAL LIMERICK DAY!

Explore the Carnegie Medal shortlist, and be inspired!

 

The Library team would like to invite all our students to get involved with this year's Carnegie Medal book award by reading any of the eight titles shortlisted for the prestigious book prize. The award, which is often described by authors as 'the one they want to win', is supported by an amazing website:

http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk

The website has a fantastic amount of information on the shortlisted titles, including plot summaries and exclusive clips of the authors talking about their books and reading extracts from them.

Mrs Mayer-Khan, Mrs Hicks and Mrs Shepard have now read all eight titles and would recommend each of them. Please feel free to come and ask us about the shortlist; we love to discuss the books and each have our favourites!

But don't just take our word for it; the Beaumont Book Club , who are shadowing the shortlist, have posted their own reviews on the Carnegie website. These can be accessed by going to the 'Shadowing' tab, choosing 'Reading Groups' and searching for 'Beaumont Readers'.

All Beaumont students who read one of the shortlist are welcome to post a review on our web page. If you would like to do so, please see one of the Library team who will give you a user name and password. There is a prize for all those who post a review!

We would encourage all our students to read one of the contenders for the Carnegie Medal award. The books on the shortlist are inspiring, funny, emotional, thought-provoking, exciting, tear-jerking and mind-blowing. Come along to the library to discover one today...and join the debate! 

The winner of the Carnegie Medal will be announced on Monday 20th June.