Hello! Welcome to the 4th instalment of my blog.
This week, I have been looking for different activities which we can all get involved in. Enjoy😊.
National Book Token – Writing Competition
Are you a budding writer? Is your imagination bursting with ideas for adventure, thrills and spills, stories about inspirational people, big friendly giants or tiny talking spiders then this is for you!
Here’s information on how to enter and be in with a chance to win up to £200 of National Book Tokens:
How to enter: ask your child to write a story of up to 300 words, using the theme BIG DREAMS. Submit it here by midnight on 28th May.
They can interpret the theme however they like: an epic fantasy inspired by a dream, an amazing adventure that takes place in another world, or a true-to-life story set in an imaginary school. The winning stories will be chosen by not one, not two, but six amazing Puffin authors: Nathan Bryon and Sam Copeland (6-10), Robin Stevens and Yassmin Abdel-Magied (11-15), and Emma Smith-Barton and Carrie Hope Fletcher (15-18).
Our esteemed judges will award one winner in each age group the grand prize of a £200 National Book Token, with added prizes of 2 x £100 and 16 x £50 National Book Tokens in each category. The winners will be announced on Sunday 14th June by the authors themselves at the Puffin Festival of Big Dreams on Puffin Books’ YouTube and Facebook channels, and the three winning stories will be published on our website.
To visit the National Book Token webpage and find out more information, please click on the following link (ctrl and click)
National Book Token Prize Draw
Win £5,000 worth of National Book Tokens for your School Library:
The National Book Tokens prize draw is back! National Book Tokens are giving one lucky school £5,000/€5,000 of National Book Tokens to spend on books for their library, enough to buy hundreds of books when schools reopen. Plus, whoever nominates the winning school will be entered in a draw to take home £100/€120 of National Book Tokens for themselves.
Visit www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools to nominate your school, plus download images and flyers to help spread the word on social media. The more nominations, the greater the chance of winning! Nominations are open until 31 July 2020.
https://www.worldbookday.com/2020/05/win-5000-of-national-book-tokens-for-your-school-library/
How amazing would it be if we won! Think of all the books we could buy Please get voting, thank you 😊.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Today is the first day of Mental Health Awareness Week and WHS Parent Council have shared this list of daily challenges. Helping others can also help ourselves and don’t forget to make time for yourself:
James Dyson Challenges
The James Dyson Foundation have introduced STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths ) challenges which can be done at home. Designed by Dyson engineers, they challenge curious minds and encourage hands-on experimentation.
Click on this link to download the challenges:
https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/resources/challenge-cards.html
Reading Challenge
Check out the library section of the website for information on how to join the reading challenge.
The team are currently in Mumbai.
Book of the Week – Kingdom of Ash (Bk 7) by Sarah J Maas
Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to assassin to queen reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world… She has risked everything to save her people – but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will to endure the months of torture inflicted upon her. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unravelling with each passing day… With Aelin imprisoned, Aedion and Lysandra are the last line of defence keeping Terrasen from utter destruction. But even the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save the kingdom. Scattered throughout the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian must forge their own paths to meet their destinies. And across the sea Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen – before she is lost to him.
Some bonds will deepen and others be severed forever, but as the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight if they are to find salvation – and a better world. Years in the making, Kingdom of Ash is the unforgettable conclusion to Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series
Book Reviews
Don’t forget, you can leave a review on any of the books you have read from the School Library Catalogue on Eclipse, just log onto your account or search and click on the book title and leave a review.
Well that’s it from me, let’s see what this new week beings.
Stay safe, stay home
Mrs Jones
Library Assistant
