Thursday, 13 February 2025

World Book Day and Book Fair

 

St Joseph’s World Book Day and Book Fair
Thursday 6th March 2025

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2025 will take place on Thursday 6th March. 

On the 6th of March we would like the children to come into school dressed as a ‘word’. Your child may come to school dressed as an adjective such as “colourful” and wear their rainbow clothes; other adjectives may include: contagious, sparkly, spotty or horrifying. Alternatively, they may come to school as a noun and dress as “Christmas” in their best Christmas jumper or “Princess” in their favourite costume. There are lots of examples online and we encourage you to be as creative as you can be. We would also like all children to redesign an alternative book cover for their favourite books illustrating it with colourful images. There will be £5 book vouchers for our Book Fair to be won for the best book covers.

To celebrate World Book Day, we will also be hosting a Book Fair, with hundreds of new children’s books to browse and buy. With prices starting from only £2.99, there’s sure to be a book for everyone.

Celebrate Reading at our Book Fair!




Please follow this link to your Book Fair Invitation scholastic-book-fair-invitation-spring-2025-2299252.pdf.

At the fair you will be able to purchase books using contactless credit or debit cards or cash.

If you’re unable to visit the book fair, your child will be sent home with a Wish List and you can pay for their chosen books using the online payment link at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to school so that the books can be given to your child.

Pre-paid gift vouchers are also available. Go to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/gift-vouchers to buy vouchers.

Your child will have an opportunity to visit the book fair during the school day with their class.

Thursday 27th February

Year 3 and Year 2

Friday 28th February

Nursery and Reception

Monday 3rd March

Year 1 and Year 5

Tuesday 4th March

Year 6 and Year 4

Wednesday 5th March

Last Day of Book Fair

Thursday 6th March

Book Fair Collected

They will be able to bring in cash to purchase books on that day or they will be given a Wish List. Please put money in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class. 

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair if they so wish or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day and how you can use the £1 book token log-on to www.worldbookday.com.

To keep up-to-date with our book fair news log-on to our library blog at www.ilovereadingatstjosephs.blogspot.com.

Don’t forget that every book you buy helps towards FREE BOOKS for our school library. The last Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success for St Joseph’s making over £2000 in FREE BOOKS.

We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at the book fair.

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Winter Reading Challenge

  WINTER READING CHALLENGE

The Winter Reading Challenge is ending on 28th February.
There is still time to take part.

Taking part in the Winter Reading Challenge is simple and free. Children need to read 4 books from their library between 2 December 2024 and 28 February 2025.  There will be a certificate for all those who complete the challenge. 

If you are not already a member of your local library visit https://www.gov.uk/local-library-services to find the library nearest to you. Join today and start borrowing FREE books, eBooks and eAudiobooks.

For more information on the Winter Reading Challenge, and more activities taking place in Islington Libraries, please visit www.islington.gov.uk/libraries.

Remember to bring in your certificates to share with your teachers.

Children's Mental Health Week

 Children's Mental Health Week
3-9th February 2025


This year’s theme is ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’.

'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself' puts a spotlight on how we can build resilience, grow and develop by understanding who we are and what makes us tick.

Class sessions in the library reflected on emotions, what they are and how to share them so that we can strive to be happy and healthy. Reminding everyone that reading is a great way to relax, be happy and confident. 


Amber class sharing 'A Book of Feelings' by Amanda McCardie

We have a good stock of Wellness books appropriate for every year group.

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Thursday, 16 January 2025

Library - Donations - Happy New Year!

 

DONATIONS

We have a very special library here at St Joseph’s and we wish to maintain its high standard in meeting all the learning needs of our children. Donating a book helps to build our library collection with the very latest in children’s literature. It is the perfect way to support your child and school.

 Christmas Wish List📚🎄

We have received some wonderful new books for our library.

Many thanks to everyone who sent the school a Christmas gift.

BIRTHDABOOK CLUB📚

Celebrate your child’s birthday with a donation to our school library!

We also have a Birthday Book Club which provides you with an opportunity to donate a book to our school library in honour of your child’s birthday and ensures that we have new and exciting books for your children each year.

Join the Birthday Book Club by making payment of the membership fee of £6.00 via ParentPay. Your child will then be able to select a book with the help of the school librarian.

All books will have a bookplate placed inside with your child’s name and birth date and they will be the first to borrow the book.

Your support in our endeavour to keep our library well-resourced and an inspiring place for our children is invaluable. Your gift will become part of our library and a source of enjoyment and learning for many others.

Thank you to everyone who has joined and donated a book to our library!

A book is a gift that keeps on giving for years to come.

Happy New Year!

Christmas Wish List

 Christmas Wish List📚🎄

We have received some wonderful new books for our library.

This helps our library grow and to keep it up-to-date to support our children's learning.



Many thanks to everyone who sent the school a gift.

Happy New Year!

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Library Robot

 A Robot in the library

Junior Librarian, Cillian with our library robot

Our Junior Librarians, Sadie and Cillian from Amethyst Class have been hard at work with our digital lead, Mrs Suliga, preparing a robot to enhance our library experience.

They have been busy coding the robot to be able to assist children with recommending books to read.


Junior Librarians, Sadie and Cillian, coding library robot

When finished the robot will be able to suggest books according to Year group and genres.
Just ask 
"WHAT TO READ NEXT?"
and you will get some brilliant suggestions from our library robot.

We are so excited to welcome our very new and special library assistant!

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Children's Library Reopening

 Children's Library

reopens at 

Archway Library

Wednesday 15th January 2025