Introducing... Sethpai

First discovered by Victoria Badcott, 

valiant explorer of the Canepople wilds

This creature is found in Canepople. It can grow up to 5/6 cm tall and weight two or three kilograms at adulthood. It eats rocks, such as granite or sandstone, and cod, scampi, hake or whitebait.

There is a thin layer of skin surrounding its eyeball to keep it moist, but if it were to get broken or scratched then it would send a jet of fluid up its antenna to keep it moist and wet. Young are usually born in the middle of September; 30 or 40 eggs are produced and attached to the body with a delicate thread of skin.

Sethpais can move up to rates of 164mph, even though they don’t have legs. They live in burrows in the river banks. By jumping up and down their sharp bottoms can dig underground. These creatures are venomous. The green bit of their cone ejects slightly and can be used to kill attacking animals.

Introducing... Dread

First discovered by Leonie Malone, 

courageous hunter

Dread is a venomous creature. He has dark, green, slimy scales. He is a carnivore and attacks his prey. He also uses his claws to attack his prey.

Dread is very venomous. You would not like to meet him

He is very slim but his head is fat. He has razor sharp teeth. He lives in a gloomy cave.

Introducing... Vampire X

First discovered by Dylan Hughes, 

intrepid mountaineer.

This large, bloodthirsty bat is rarely seen during the day as its ruby-red eyes are specifically for night vision.

When hunting, the Vampire X (named after its shape and diet) can reach speeds of 970 miles per hour by vibrating its huge, delicate wings 100 times per second.

It dines mainly on sheep and cattle’s blood, but if it is desperate or hungry it will attack humans. They live in the Himalayan mountain range but can migrate to different countries.

BEWARE

This week the prizes for the monster competition arrived for the winners! Artist Geoffrey Sear has created some amazing images of the children's monsters, and they were very excited to see what they had created fully illustrated!

There will be a post for each of the winning monsters in the coming weeks, so look forward to seeing them in all their glory!

Well done to all the winners - your imagination has created some wonderful and terrifying creatures!

Dante, Charles, Dylan and Victoria
share their incredible creations

Leonie and Io with  their monsters:
Dread and Zaper

The Book Fair is Over!

We wish farewell for the last time this year to the St Joseph's Book Fair. Once again everyone was hugely enthusiastic and the children had a fantastic time!

This time we raised more than £1,200 in resources for the school! That is absolutely incredible, and will really help to stock our new, larger library. Thank you so very much to everyone who got involved.

Enjoy your books!

Wall art!

Last week the library was visited by a very talented artist. Now our walls are adorned with some wonderful paintings and inspirational quotes. Take a look!

Which is your favourite?

Welcome to the library!

The library has now moved! No longer only occupying a single room, the library now fills the school house. There are now separate rooms for picture books, chapter books and non-fiction, with a table for group study and a lovely outdoor area which should see a lot of use now that summer has finally arrived! There are all sorts of big plans for continuing improvements to what the library has to offer, so stay tuned!

There are all sorts of plans for this new space, and we've only just started so keep an eye out for what comes next!

A huge thank you to everyone who has come to a school book fair this year! We have been able to add some fantastic new books to the library entirely funded by book fair proceeds, including a large number of dyslexia friendly books. We have also purchased some books for the older pupils looking to go further with their reading. As these books include some darker themes, they will only be made available to Years 5 and 6, but please let us know if you’d still rather your child not to be allowed to borrow them. Remember, you can see what new books we are adding on Reading Cloud so have a look to see what you might want to reserve – they’ll go quickly!