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!

🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤

 

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! 

World Book Day & Book Fair

BOOK FAIR

COMING SOON 

on WORLD BOOK DAY!!

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. 

HELP earn free books for your school.

remember every book you buy means that we get a book for our library.

Arriving

Thursday 7th March 2024

Leaving 

Wednesday 13th March 2024

In

 New Conference Room

Open Daily at

8:40 - 9:00am & 3:00 - 3:45pm

Follow this link to your invitation

We look forward to seeing you all.

 

Book Fair

 

World Book Day and Book Fair

 

St Joseph’s World Book Day and Book Fair
Thursday 7^th March 2024

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2024 will take place on Thursday 7th March. 

On the 7th 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!

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.

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 £1500 in FREE BOOKS.

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

Book Fair

BOOK FAIR

COMING SOON!!

Thursday 7th  - Wednesday 13th MARCH 2024

 

Winter Reading Challenges

 Winter Reading Challenges are still on.

Join in! 

Islington Libraries' Winter Reading Challenge is on till 29th February 2024

The Winter Reading Challenge run by Islington libraries is FREE. Children need to read 4 books from their library between 1^st December 2023 and 29^th February 2024.  There are certificates for all those who complete the challenge as well as a chance to win a special prize!

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

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.

The Winter Mini Challenge run by The Reading Agency is still on until 19th February 2024.

Taking part in the Winter Mini Challenge is FREE and online. Visit the dedicated children’s website, www.wintermini.org.uk, and gain rewards for reading and reviewing books!  

JUNIOR LIBRARIANS

JUNIOR LIBRARIANS

Our Year 5 and Year 6 Junior Librarians have done a fabulous job of encouraging reading, caring for our wonderful library and book resources at St Joseph's. 

READING CLOUD LUNCHTIME WORKSHOP

Giancarlo and Alfie holding a Reading Cloud Workshop

Giancarlo and Alfie from Indigo Class have set up a very popular and helpful lunchtime workshop to demonstrate how to access and use our Reading Cloud for eBooks and eAudiobooks.

Many children have come along and have enjoyed reading online. 

LUNCHTIME MONITORING

Nancy and Isla - Amethyst Class - organising books

Isla and Nancy from Amethyst Class have been doing a fantastic job of keeping all our books tidy and in order. They help recommend and find books for younger children as well as teach others how the library is organised so everyone can enjoy it.

Isla and Nancy scanning books

Aisha, Sadie and Eleonora from Tanzanite class have been busy issuing and returning books using our scanner for our library management system - READING CLOUD.

Aisha - Tanzanite Class issuing books

READING BUDDIES at LUNCHTIME

A junior librarian as reading buddy.

All our junior librarians are reading buddies for the early years children who use the library during lunchtime.

OUR BOOK CORNERS

We are lucky to have a book corner in every year group area and our junior librarians have been busy making sure that they are always tidy and relaxing places to read.

WELL DONE!

HALF TERM

Book Borrowing

Each class has a weekly session in the library. Every child has an opportunity to borrow a book each week and return it on their library day to borrow another. Year 5 and Year 6 can borrow 2 books at a time.

Red Class choosing books.

Please make sure that your child returns their library book each week.

TUESDAY –Gems/Pearl/Tanzanite/Indigo/Amber/Orange/Yellow

WEDNESDAY – Diamond/Ruby/Red

THURSDAY – Green/Emerald/Blue/Sapphire /Violet/Amethyst

LOST or DAMAGED BOOKS 

If a book is lost or damaged please either replace it or contact the school office to arrange payment of £5 on ParentPay. 

 

Pearl Class borrowing books.

 

Enjoy your books over half-term and remember you can also read digital books and listen to audiobooks on our READING CLOUD.

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Happy Holiday Reading!