Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell 

is coming to our local bookshop, Pickled Pepper Books, Crouch End on Sunday 24th September at 10am to launch her new book

 'The Wizards of Once'. 

Have a fun and literary weekend!

COMPETITION!

So many scary and mysterious things lurk under the sea...

A see-through head? Seems useful!

When Years 3 and 4 went to meet Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train Your Dragon series, she told them all about how she uses real life to inspire her when she creates the dragons for her books. Anyone who's read any of her books knows that her dragons come in absolutely all shapes and sizes!

Conga eels, a blobfish, giant lobsters and an amazing fish with a see through head have all given her ideas.

Now it's your turn!

I want you to come up with your own monster (it doesn't have to be a dragon!) using inspiration from real life. You need to draw a picture of it, and write a short description.

A good description will talk about a monster's appearance, habits (what it eats, where it lives, what it does) and what makes your monster so special.

If you need ideas there are plenty of books about strange animals and plants in the library that you can borrow to help you start creating!

The best monsters will be the ones that use real life creatures to inspire them; creatures that are strange but a little bit true to life.

I would never have imagined something like this blobfish could exist!

The best entry will win a Minecraft Papercraft set and, along with a few others, will be drawn by an illustrator and displayed on the library wall as part of 'The St Joseph's Book of Monsters'.

Entries must be in by the end of term. 

A worksheet to help you can be found here, and embedded below.

Get creative and good luck!

This lizard looks like a dragon to me!

This giant lobster is a REAL monster!

The End of the Book Fair!

Thank you everyone for another hugely successful book fair!

So many children and adults visited the fair to explore and to choose their books.


Even with golden tickets, prize vouchers and World Book Day vouchers we still raised more than £1,100 in books for the school!

Book week is over but its events are still running! Just last week Years 3 and 4 got to meet author Cressida Cowell and this week an author is visiting us!

Alan Durant will be in school on Wednesday, working particularly with Years 1 and 2 and will be signing books after school.

Thank you to everyone who has helped turn a great Book Week into a fantastic Book Month!

Cressida Cowell

On Wednesday Years 3 and 4 went to Highgate School to meet one of the most popular children’s authors in the world: Cressida Cowell, writer of the How to Train Your Dragon series. 

She showed us some of the amazing creatures and places that inspired her in writing her books and taught the children some fantastically gross and secret phrases of Dragonese that even the teachers weren’t allowed to hear! 


She also shared the title and an excerpt from her new book out in September. It’s the last in the series, and no one else outside that room has ever heard what she read to us!

It was a brilliant day, and the children (and teachers) had a great time. A big thank you to Mrs Cowell and to Highgate School for inviting to share in such an exciting visit!

This week 3D, having finished the Twits, started listening to a new book in the library: How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.

This book (and the others in the huge eleven book series!) are hugely popular in the library, and now Year 3 is starting to borrow them too!

Here are a couple of things you should know about the series...