New librarian!

I am very happy to welcome our new librarian, Mr Town.  He is spending time getting to know the children and the library books at the moment  - welcome to possibly the best job in the world!

New website for parents/carers

I cannot recommend this website highly enough www.lovemybooks.co.uk  It has lots of wonderful ideas and advice about reading with children from age 0-7.  Do take a look.
Miss Davies

Year 6 poets visit Waterstones

Follow the link to see how Year 6 celebrated National Poetry Day

http://www.cabotyear61415.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/national-poetry-day-visit-to.html

Summer Reading Challenge - updated

More successful readers looking fab in their celebratory outfits!

So nice to see a reading challenge medal first thing on a Friday morning!

Summer Reading Challenge

Congratulations to all those who completed the Summer Reading Challenge!

Reception trip to St Paul's Library

Thank you to all the parents (and big brothers) who joined Reception on our trip to St Paul's Library.  The children enjoyed some stories and were the first children in the local area to find out about this year's Summer Reading Challenge!

To get this year's Summer Reading Challenge record sheet...

you have to be a member of Bristol Libraries.  Fill in this simple form which you can collect from any Bristol Library (along with proof of address) or go to this website

http://bristol.gov.uk/page/leisure-and-culture/join-and-use-library

Happy reading!
Miss Davies

Job applications

I am having a very enjoyable afternoon reading job applications some Year 6 children have written for the post of volunteer readers in Reception.  They are very professional and will stand them in good stead in the future jobs market.  Well done Year 6!

Reading and drawing competition at Foyles this Saturday

As part of Big Green Week, Foyles in Cabot Circus is holding a children's book reading, drawing workshop and competition on Saturday 13th from 2.30-4.10pm for children aged 6-10.

The event is free but you must email CabotCircus@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

Follow the link below or look at the posters in Year 2-5 classrooms for further information.

http://biggreenweek.com/event/epic-eco-inventions-childrens-book-reading-drawing-workshop/

I would love to hear about this if any of you are able to go.

Miss Davies

Fiction Express

I've just been catching up on the new Fiction Express stories.  Hope you're enjoying the new features - I like changing the font.  Sleepers is great.  Reminds me a lot of Doctor Who, I keep expecting a Cyberman to appear!

Special book week visitors

Wow! What an amazing day we have had.  This morning The Gruffalo made a special appearance.  He was very popular, even Mr Burton and Mr Pring wanted a picture!

Then, this afternoon, Andy from Cbeebies came to visit!  The children were speechless!

Many thanks to both our special visitors for helping make Book Week even more memorable than usual.

Book making

As part of Book Week, every child has been making their own book.  Different year groups have been learning how to make different kinds of book.  Year 3 have made some lovely pop up books.

Whilst Year 6 look quite puzzled about how they are going to turn these simple resources into spectacular books.  Check back soon for the results!

New Fiction Express on Friday!

Looking forward to the new Fiction Express stories released on Friday...

Year 3 and 4 - Snaffles and the Moonfish Mystery by Cavan Scott
Snaffles the Cat Burglar is back, and this time he has a fishy mystery to solve. Travelling to outer space, will Snaffles and his dozy canine sidekick, Bonehead, succeed? You decide! 

Year 5 and 6 - The Golden Amulet by Alex Woolf
In this Anglo-Saxon adventure, a chieftain's daughter attempts to rescue her father from his Viking captors. Will she succeed? You decide! 

(remember you can always read both!)

Miss Davies

Read for my school

The school has successfully run the Read for my School competition for the past few years in Year 6.  This year we are opening up the competition to all of KS2.  All  you need to do is read as many books as you can and record them on the website (what a great way to spend half term!).  You can read actual paper books (from home, school, the library, shops e.t.c.) and there are over 150 online books available on the website.

Go to: www.readformyschool.co.uk  
Username: Your first and last name
Password: Your AR/STAR username (you can find this in your yellow reading record.  It needs to be in capitals)
Class code 847912

The competition runs till the end of next term. Teachers will be nominating pupils who have read the most books and who have written the best book review.  Good luck!
Miss Davies

P.S I'm looking forward to the new Fiction Express stories next term

Reading Recovery Read Aloud

This is a very special week for Reading Recovery teachers like myself.  The Reading Recovery team at the International Literacy Centre share the mission of  Save the Children's 'Read on Get on' campaign to ensure that by 2025 every child is a confident reader by age 11.  All over the country children who are having/have had Reading Recovery are reading to someone special.

At Cabot, some Year 1 children have read one of their favourite stories to a local police officer and some Year 5 children read to Paul Jacobs, Service Director, Education and Skills, Bristol City Council.  All the visitors were very impressed with the children's reading.  The Year 5's in particular read with such expression that Mr Jacobs wants to read the books himself so he can find out how the stories end!

Of course the most important person a child can read with is someone from their own family.  Please make a special effort this week to sit back, relax and listen to your child read - you'll be in for a treat!

Miss Davies

New books in the library!

Before Christmas we asked all the children to make some suggestions about books that they thought were missing from the library. I was overwhelmed by all the suggestions, and I spent quite some time sorting through them all and ordering lots of new books. So... I can happily say that now they have arrived!

Here is just a sample of the new books we have, and some of the children who recommended them:

Wilson, Jacqueline - The Suitcase Kid (Halima, Y5) and The Worst Thing About My Sister (Faiza, Y6)

Orme, David - Boffin Boy (Abdirahman I, Y5)

Freedman, Dan - Jamie Johnson: World Class (Abdirahim C, Y5)

Werle, Simone - 13 Fashion Styles All Children Should Know (Tanieka & Fatima, Y5)

Sparkes, Ali - Finding the Fox: The Shapeshifter Series (Miss Cartlidge)

O' Reilly, Sean - New Monster in School and The King of Halloween Castle 
(Mackenzie, Y4)



There were also some titles that LOTS of you recommended. These are also now in the library!

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 

Walliams, David - Awful Auntie

Simon, Francesca - Horrid Henry's Nightmare

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Miss Stevenson