Dear Parents/Carers,

I hope this email finds you well.

We have had a good start to the new year.

Top Award Winners Wk beginning January 10th

Our core value for this week was Humility

5T – Sarrina

5H Emme

6O Alfie

6M Gabriel

7I Hannah

7L Oscar

8N Matt

8S Joey

P&Q Award Winner

Those children who show they are kind, friendly and respectful around the school during a school week (so those who “mind their Ps & Qs”) are awarded a P&Q slip.  Each week the child who is drawn from those awarded a P&Q award wins a book of their choice.

Each term the school draws one winner from all those awarded a P&Q slip during that term.

The P & Q award winner for the Autumn term 2021 is…Ethan in Year 6.  Ethan wins a £10 Amazon voucher.

Well done to all the award winners!

November Reading Challenge Award Winner tells us the books he bought

During November and early December children took part in our November Reading Challenge.  Every book a child read gained a ticket into a prize draw where the winner won a £20 Waterstones book voucher.

Danny in Yr 6 won the first prize and below he tells us the books he bought with this award

A Kestrel For a Knave by Barry Hines

I chose this as I particularly enjoy novels set in real life rather than fantasy worlds and my Mum told me about “Kes” which is the film adaptation of the book.  It is about Billy Caspar, a troubled teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining town who discovers a new passion and inspiration in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.

he Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Another story based on real life events.  It tels the story of life in Nazi Germany from the German point of view.  I was drawn to it by this, written on the back of my edition of the book: “This is the tale of the Book Thief, as narrated by death.  And when death tells a story you really have to listen.”  All I know so far is that the story was inspired by the stories told by the author’s parents and that it’s about a hungry, illiterate girl who has such a desire to read that she steals books.  I’m also wondering how it will work to have “Death” as the narrator?

Z for Zachariah by Robert C O’Brien

The key character in this book is living alone in a valley fearing that she is the only survivor of a devastating nuclear war.  The book is described as a “terrifyign battle of wills between a girl and the last man on Earth”.  I was curious to find out what life might have been like in the aftermath of a nuclear war.  Mr Murtagh told me that the book gave him nightmares when he read it at my age so this makes me want to read it even more!

Thank you to Danny for telling us the books he’s bought with his award.

I hope you have a good weekend.

Take care,

Liam