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Our Year 5 reading challenge stars played bingo in the library with our lovely librarians this week! Book Bingo was definitely our favourite reading challenge so far. Congratulations to all and enjoy your prizes! #ReadingChallenge #GreatSchoolLibraries @GreatSchLibs

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In their final library sessions of the year, EYFS and Pre-Prep pupils have been listening to I Am Not a Prince! by @RachDavisAuthor and @BeatrixHatcher, then participated in a draw-along of main character: Hopp! What lovely froggy drawings everyone! #DrawAlong #IAmNotAPrince

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Congratulations to our latest completer for the Book Bingo Reading Challenge! We are creeping ever closer to that final game of bingo with our keen readers! #ReadingChallenge #BookBingo #GreatSchoolLibraries

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This week our Y4s are judging #AprilsGarden, illustrated by #CatalinaEcheverri for the @CarnegieMedals. We are looking at colour, emotions and body language in the book and trying Catalina’s pencil and charcoal techniques to create our own images of April - tricky stuff!

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Congratulations to our first Y5 completers of the Book Bingo Reading Challenge this term! Not long now until we play our final game of bingo for this academic year. We can’t wait! #ReadingChallenge

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It’s #EmpathyDay! Miss Cook & Miss Etienne have been reading #TheColourMonster, a book about emotions & colours, to EYFS & Pre-Prep pupils & then we all coloured in bookmarks with the colour/emotion we are feeling. Lots of happy yellows and green calms! @EmpathyLabUK

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This week in their @CarnegieMedals shadowing sessions, Y4 were comparing and contrasting two books: #TheTreeAndTheRiver by Aaron Becker and #Lost by @Ilustrajo. Each class split into 2 groups, talking criteria with library staff in turns before coming back together to discuss!

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@ErikaDraws @CarnegieMedals @GreatSchLibs We are glad to brighten your day @ErikaDraws! 😁

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In this week’s @CarnegieMedals shadowing session, pupils investigated #ToTheOtherSide by @ErikaDraws and attempted to create their own monsters by painting with black watercolours. Very menacing and effective! #Art #Illustration #GreatSchoolLibraries @GreatSchLibs

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This week in our @CarnegieMedals sessions, we assessed the illustrations in The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish and ended by rising to @chloesavageart’s challenge to draw the biggest jellyfish we could, on the school playground! What majestic giant jellyfish they are! #Art

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We are loving our #AuthorVisit from @gomabbitt today! We are drawing worms, listening to stories, roaring like dragons and laughing at princes in their underwear! @GreatSchLibs #GreatSchoolLibraries

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Lately a mysterious benefactor has found a way to change all of the ipad wallpapers/screen savers in the library to images of @TheRock, despite the settings being blocked by IT. We can’t help but wonder what the People’s Champion himself would have to say about this! #LibraryLife

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Wow! With only a few days to go, we are officially sold out of books for our @gomabbitt author visit! We are very excited indeed! Thanks as always to our hardworking book suppliers @Petersbooks! #AuthorVisit #ICanOnlyDrawWorms #ThisIsNotAFairytale @PuffinBooks @FredBlunt

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We discussed colour, size and scale and endpapers, testing out the illustrator’s artistic technique by designing our own fictional plants in a single colour and adding depth with shading. @CarnegieMedals


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Year 4 have started their sessions shadowing the @CarnegieMedals for illustration! After an introduction to the books last week, this week we focused on #TheWilderness by #SteveMcCarthy.

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The Y6 Library Monitors are on a trip this week so we put a call out to all Y5 pupils interested in stepping in to the role for 1 week only! Lots of children applied so a random name generator had to be deployed to choose our enthusiastic team. Thanks for all of your hard work!

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Drawing Comics is back! This week we challenged ourselves to drawalong with @MonstrousComics on @phoenixcomicuk skills hub. I think you’ll agree that these monsters are looking pretty good! #Comics #Drawing #Art #AfterSchoolClub