Holiday Challenge!

Welcome to the inaugural library holiday challenge.


Your task is to put things in your home into alphabetical order (this could be by title or author).  It could be books, DVDs, computer games, magazines, football cards or anything else you can think of.  Once you have sorted them alphabetically, take a picture or write them down in a list.  All children who bring a list/picture to Mr Town by Friday 28th April will feature on the Reading and Library blog.



For example:

Clough, Margaret
Dale, Jay
Giles, Jenny,
Magee, Wes
Randell, Beverley

Good luck!  Mr Town

Book week 2017

Thank you to everyone who was involved in another successful Book Week, especially our friends at Foyles.  Here are Year 6 having a look at what is on offer.

Particular thanks also go to our Cabot Choir (led by Miss Heppner and Mr Town) for their beautiful performance of the song 'I love reading'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ouL4ZMEdIs

A new activity this year was making story boxes with Year 2.  Everyone enjoyed making some of our Cabot Classics come to life. Thank you to all the family members who were able to come and help.  We hope you are enjoying playing with your storyboxes at home.

Miss Davies and Mr Town

Book week events at Foyles - Saturday 4th March

Our very good friends at Foyles are running two special sessions this Saturday.  They are both free but you have to book in advance by email.

Saturday 11th March 2017 2pm - 3pm Cabot Circus, Bristol Literary Event, Children's Event, Free Event

We will be bringing the Under The Love Umbrella story to life by showing children how to create their own paper umbrellas at this arts and crafts workshop. 

Under the Love Umbrella is a beautiful new picture-book by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys, the duo behind the award-winning The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade. It's a gorgeous, heartfelt book about the transformative power of family love in all its forms. 

There will be a story time followed by colouring and crafts. Children will be shown how to design and create paper love umbrellas, and once made, they can choose to take them home or hang them in our children’s section instore! 

By pre-booking your place at this craft workshop, your child will be entered into a draw to WIN a free signed copy of Under the Love Umbrella.

The umbrella designs are so simple to create that this is perfect for little ones aged 3-6 years! 

Tickets: This is a free event, simply add the required number of tickets to the basket below. Please only book tickets for your child(ren). Please note, no physical tickets will be issued (to save the trees!). Your email confirmation is proof of booking. 

Venue: Foyles, Brigstowe Street, Cabot Circus, Bristol, BS1 3BH 

http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=3160

Saturday 4th March 2017 3pm - 4pm Cabot Circus, Bristol Children's Event, Free Event

As part of our World Book Day celebrations this year, we’ve teamed up with local Bristol hospital charity, Above & Beyond to host an interactive storytelling and creative writing afternoon.

Above & Beyond has launched a very special children’s anthology, Don’t Be Scared to raise funds for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. With the support of over thirty authors and illustrators, the new book is dedicated to all the children and families cared for in hospital.　

This limited edition children’s book is a collection of short stories and poems by some of the best-loved Children’s Laureates of the 20th and 21st centuries including, Jacqueline Wilson, Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake and Carol Ann Duffy, and all proceeds go to the charity.　

In this fun-filled session we will be reading extracts from Don’t Be Scared and encouraging children to write their own stories and poems based around the theme of ‘being brave’.

This event is ideally suited for children aged 8-12yrs.

Tickets: This is a free event. Simply add the required number of tickets to the basket below. Please only book tickets for your child(ren). Please note, no physical tickets will be issued (to save the trees!). Your email confirmation is proof of booking.

Venue: Foyles, Brigstowe Street, Cabot Circus, BS1 3BH  

http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=3170

If you are able to attend, please come and tell myself or Mr Town about it next week.

Miss Davies

Local Bristol libraries newsletter February 2017

Please see the link below for the current newsletter, which gives lots of information about news and events for children and adults that are going on in our local libraries:

Local libraries newsletter February 2017

KS2 Book recommendations

Thank you so much for all your suggestions for great reads in KS2.  Mr Town and I have a lot of reading to do!  We hope to have read and discussed all the books ready for September, so watch this space.

We are happy to announce the name for this group of books - Cabot Collection - The bestest, coolest most awesomest books ever!

Miss Davies and Mr Town

Peter Rabbit Egg Hunt at Foyles

Our friends at Foyles are hosting this free event

Saturday 26th March 2016 11am - 4pm Cabot Circus, Bristol Children's Event, Free Event   As part of the Beatrix Potter 150th Celebrations, this Easter Foyles are hosting a Peter Rabbit Egg Hunt.   Join Peter on his adventure to find the ten eggs hidden in-store. There will be activity sheets to colour-in and stickers to take home if you can spot all the missing eggs… the race is on! There will two sessions: 11am-12noon and 3-4pm. To register, simply emailevents@foyles.co.uk detailing which session you would like to attend.  Throughout the day there will also be an egg decorating workshop set up in the children’s section, which you can just come along to.        Hop into spring with Peter Rabbit and his friends and join in this Easter fun!   Venue: Foyles, Brigstowe Street, Cabot Circus Bristol, BS1 3BH Tickets: Free via RSVP. To book a place for one of the Egg Hunts please emailevents@foyles.co.uk detailing which time you would like to attend

Dressing up

As usual, Cabot staff and children have surpassed themselves with their knowledge of books and creative approaches to costumes.  I think my favourites this year are the crayons from 'The day the crayons quit' by Oliver Jeffers.  I was particularly impressed by the complete focus on learning displayed this morning in spite of all the new class members!