World Book Week 📚
Our librarian, Miss Dodds, decided that a World Book Day was not enough for Winston and she has planned a full week of activities that help us all to celebrate the joy of books and reading.
The first half of Book Week has been jam packed full of different things going on in the library. On Monday, we started off with Mrs Alexander reading an extract from Becoming Michelle Obama as this is someone who has inspired her. It was interesting to hear a little about Michelle's childhood and how she always stood for what she believed in. Thank you Mrs Alexander for sharing this!
On Tuesday, as part of Careers Week, we were lucky enough to have visiting author Marisa Noelle doing a talk in the Discovery Space, coinciding with Book Week! She spoke to mainly Year 8's but some other students also, about the process of taking a book from first idea right through to it being on the shelf. It was incredibly inspiring and the students had lots of questions for her. We're hoping Marisa will come back later on in the school year as her teen horror/sci-fi books are sure to be very popular with the students! Our staff reader on Tuesday was Mr Parsons, who decided to read a short extract from Pax - a moving story of the extraordinary friendship between a box and his fox, and their epic journey to be reunited. Thank you Mr Parsons!
Tuesday also saw the start of Manga Club after school! We created manga inspired posters to promote the club and looked at some 'New In' manga books for the library. We are hoping to expand the club over the next couple of weeks so if you are interested in reading and enjoying manga, come along on a Tuesday after school in the library.
The Aspire Carnegie reading group met again on Wednesday morning to decide which would be the first book from the Carnegie shortlist that they would read. Some of the books were more popular than others within the group, but the students are encouraged to push themselves out of their reading comfort zone. Each student chose a book to take out from the list, and went away with the idea of trying that book, ready to discuss when we meet next Friday!
It's been a busy week already in the library, so be sure to come along and choose something to read, take part the book week activities or decide on what career path you might want to go down. Watch this space for more Book Week news at the end of the week - including World Book Day pictures, more staff readers and another author visit!
