How to enter our book trailer competition



As part of this year's Beaumont Reads, we are running a competition asking students to make a book trailer to promote Counting by 7s. Congratulations to James Kott (8L) for being the first student to enter with a fantastic trailer!

So where do you start? There is lots of online information on how to make a great book trailer. Why not take a look at the following website for some good advice: 

http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/

You will also find plenty of examples of book trailers online. See some of the latest trailers on the World Book Day website:

http://www.worldbookday.com/booktrailers-online/

Here are the instructions for making and uploading your book trailer:

1. Film the video on your phone, tablet or camera and save the file to your computer. The trailer can contain moving images, or a series of still images. The ideal length would be around 90 seconds, but no longer than 3 minutes.
2. Join the Library Google Classroom by clicking the + icon at the top right of the screen. Enter the Class Code 8gfys4
3. Open the assignment by selecting 'Enter the Book Trailer Competition' .
4. Upload your book trailer/video file by clicking 'Add' then the Attachment/paper clip icon. Press 'Select Files From Your Computer', find your book trailer file and click 'Upload'.
5. Press 'Hand In'.

All entries should be in by Friday 16th December. Miss Hosegood will judge the entries and the winner will receive a Kindle Fire! If you have any questions about the competition, please come and see us in the library. Good luck and get creative!

The stars are coming out in Beaumont Library

The Accelerated Reader display board in the library is already spangled with stars. Just to remind you, all students who score 100% on an AR quiz will get a star with their name on, in their house colour. If you achieve 100% on five quizzes, you will get a silver star and for 100% on ten quizzes you will be awarded a gold star. At the end of term, all the stars from the board will be put into prize draws with a prize for the winning star from each form. We already have some silver star quizzers this term:

Elliot Coates 7N
Edward Jenkins 7R
Susie Weidmann 8N
Tia Hall 8R

AR quizzes - points and prizes!

Here are the latest AR points league tables. Remember, all students who score over 60% on an AR quiz will earn points towards their form's total. At the end of term, the form with the most AR points in each year group will win chocolates for their class!

Top of the leader boards this week are 7N and 8E.

Congratulations to all our quizzers so far this term and good luck to everyone in the weeks ahead!



 

Introducing our new 'Beaumont Reads' book - the fantastic 'Counting by 7s'

'If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.' 

Last week we launched Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan as our latest whole school read. Following assemblies in which Mrs Lennox-Hennessy and Miss Hosegood introduced the book, the library was inundated with students asking to borrow a copy. We have now issued over FIFTY copies of the book, including ones in French and German. 

Here are some of the ways students can get involved in 'Beaumont Reads':

• Read the wonderful Counting by 7s
• Write a review of the book and receive a specially-designed button badge
• Design a poster or bookmark inspired by the book
• Enter our BOOK TRAILER competition and use your IT skills to create your own trailer to promote Counting by 7s and inspire others to pick up and read the book
• The winner of this competition will win a Kindle Fire!

The library team are putting together all the competition details, links to book trailer websites and advice on how to upload your book trailers. We will publish this on our blog and on a display in the library in the coming days. 

If you have any questions, do come along to the library and ask. Take the plunge, read Counting by 7s and become part of this year's fantastic Beaumont Reads adventure!

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Alert for sixth formers: How to access library resources

Essential information on accessing the Library's research material:

Eclipse Library Catalogue
To perform a keyword search: go to the school Portal and click on Eclipse Library Login OR go to START-All Programs-Library-Eclipse.

Journals
Hard copy
You find the current hard copy journals on the journal stand in the Sixth Form Library and archived journals on the bookshelf.

Online journals
Go to Dynamic Learning to access Philip Allan Magazines.
Login URL: http://my.dynamic-learning.co.uk/
Student login: Username: beaumont    Password: beaumontlibrary
Link:
http://my.dynamic-learning.co.uk/?csid=9781471862410&uid=f04bd49b-4781-4c0e-860e-cb2a35453af2&cid=18486&to=627016&gd=2016-09-07T13:52:01&ke=5751CD88ED3AAA7532458E4F83C9E0F0&sa=vzMnBMLF8bVrkjzweniZbIZXqRdx8y&mp=6

EMAG Online
https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/e-magazine/emag-login
Username: Beaumontenglish
Password: english

Issues Online
www.completeissues.co.uk
Username: C20012
Password: admin

www.independence.co.uk
Username: Beaumont
Password: 14509

Free Online Resources
Google Scholar: www.scholar.google.com
Google Books: www.books.google.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALL THE LIBRARY'S RESOURCES YOU CAN ACCESS US VIA: GOOGLE CLASSROOM - DEPARTMENTS - LIBRARY. SEE LINK BELOW:
https://sites.google.com/a/beaumont.school/library/