Author Visit - Helen Peters

 

Author Visit – Helen Peters

Wednesday 12^th June

Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4 & Year 5

In order to support literacy and creativity in school we are delighted to be able to host celebrated local author, Helen Peters, who will be coming into school to meet our children on Wednesday 12^th June.

Helen Peters, is an award-winning author of ‘Friends and Traitors’, The Secret Hen House Theatre’ trilogy, and the Jasmine Green animal rescue series. Her books have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and named as the independent Bookshops Children’s Book of the Month and The Times Children’s Book of the Week. 

Helen will be visiting St Joseph’s to share her stories about adventure, bravery, family and friendship and talk about being a writer. She will be signing pre-ordered books after the event! For more information on Helen Peters and her books please go to the following website https://www.helenpetersbooks.com/

 

If you would like to support this event and pre-order a book/books for your child to have signed, please log-on to ParentPay.

Make sure to place your orders by Monday 3^rd June to avoid disappointment!

We are, indeed, very privileged to have Helen Peters visit our school and we hope that you will support this event.

Library News - Digital Books

 Library News

We have an excellent resource in our school library to support our commitment to improving literacy and promoting reading for pleasure.

Our library aims to provide children with a diverse, current and inspiring range of books to support their learning experience. This year our library has earned over £1,500 worth of free books from our successful Scholastic Book Fair, as well as, being the lucky recipient of 500 books gifted to us by the BBC 500 Words Competition.  

We are keen to concentrate our resources on providing a well-stocked library for the children to be able to access for school and home learning. With this in mind, we will not be continuing to provide a digital book collection (eBooks). However, our school library catalogue, the Reading Cloud, can be viewed and pupils are encouraged to use this resource to help with research on books and authors and to write reviews on books they have read.

To access the Reading Cloud and to find out more about the library, please go to the News tab on the school website https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/. Each child has a username and password which has been either given to them or sent home by their class teacher.

Easter Holiday Reading

Holiday Reading

Keep reading over the holidays!

READING CLOUD – eBooks & eAudiobooks

Log-on to our school library and read from our selection of eBooks & eAudiobooks.

This is a fabulous resource.

HAPPY EASTER!

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Book Fair

CONGRATULATIONS

Together we raised £2,587.34 which means we have £1,552.40 to spend on new books for our library.

Well done to all! 

Competition - BBC 500 Words

 

Competition – BBC 500 Words

Many of our children submitted stories for the BBC 500 Words competition. Liza from Tanzanite Class submitted a story which was chosen for a special prize and she had the honour of visiting Buckingham Palace as part of the celebrations. St Joseph’s school was chosen in a prize draw to receive 500 books and an art mural for our Upper KS2 hall.

Liza - Tanzanite Class

The competition was launched in 2011 to encourage children of all abilities to use their creativity and imagination to write a story they would love to read. Every story entered into the competition is sent to Oxford University Press who use the stories to help understand the language children are using and what they are interested in to ultimately improve the way English is taught in schools.

Our Junior Librarians receiving our 500 books.

Liza (Tanzanite Class) with our 500 books in the library.

Thank you to the BBC 500 Words competition for our wonderful gifts.

World Book Day

St Joseph’s Primary School Celebrates World Book Day with Creative Dress-Up

 

In a celebration of literacy and imagination, St Joseph’s Primary School (Outstanding 2023 Ofsted Rating) marked World Book Day with a unique twist this year. Instead of donning the costumes of their favourite characters, children embraced the power of words by dressing up as literary terms, bringing language to life in vibrant and imaginative ways.

The halls of St Joseph’s were alive with children transformed into colourful walking embodiments of words, such as quirky, affluent, fragile, somnolent and float, to name but a few. From "sparkling" fairies to "mischievous" foxes, the costumes were as diverse as the words they represented. All this sparked curiosity, conversation and excitement throughout the school with Billy (Year 3), who came as a “playful” pup, saying it was “the most incredible World Book Day ever”.

Executive Headteacher, Miss Clare Mcflynn, expressed her delight at the creativity displayed by the children, stating, "World Book Day is a wonderful opportunity for our children to celebrate the joy of reading and language. It was a truly inspiring day”.

St Joseph’s also hosted a Scholastic Book Fair giving the children an opportunity to use their World Book Day £1 book token to either get a £1 off a book of their choice or swap it for one of the especially published World Book Day books.

Isaac (Orange Class) lucky winner of quiz at the book fair.

Tahlia (Diamond Class) lucky winner of book cover competition.

Cain (Indigo Class) lucky winner of quiz..

As the day ended, children gathered for a special assembly where they joined in with a quiz and shared their creative alternative book covers. Prizes of book vouchers for the book fair were awarded to the winners of the quiz. It was a fitting conclusion to a day filled with creativity, laughter, and a shared love of books.

BOOK FAIR

Our BOOK FAIR 

has arrived!

WHEN: Thursday 7th March - Wednesday 13th March

TIMES: 8:40 - 9:00am and 3:00 - 3:45pm

WHERE: New Conference Room

Please follow this link to your Book Fair Invitation scholastic-book-fair-invite-spring-24-2238488.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 7th March	Nursery, Reception, Year 1
Tuesday 12th March	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
Wednesday 13th March	Year 5, Year 6
Thursday 14th 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.

Celebrate Reading at our Book Fair!