We have had an exciting start to the year with our very own Eliot Swain winning the Bookbuzz Design A Book Cover competition. Eliot’s book cover was selected from more than 400 entries that were received from schools up and down the country so he should be very pleased! Eliot’s design is displaying in their online gallery here. We are also looking forward to one of the wonderful Bookbuzz authors visiting us during the summer term.
Quizzes and fun in the Study Centre is non stop with a new quiz being displayed fortnightly and the occasional special treasure hunt! So far we have had The Great Author Treasure Hunt which was for one week only celebrating World Book Day. To coincide with Easter we have had The CFGS Easter Egg Hunt running, with 8 eggs hidden around the school each one containing the partial image of a book, who will find and name all 8 eggs....
We are taking part in Read For My School!
Read for My School is a national schools reading competition that promotes reading and philanthropy by challenging pupils to read as many books as possible across a few months of the spring term. Throughout the competition there are prizes and awards to be won for schools and pupils taking part.
So far our lovely keen readers have read an amazing 171 books! The competition is open to students in years 7 & 8 and they are still signing up now, keep up the good work.
We have also had one lucky winner automatically entered into a mini competition winning 10 books from Penguin Schools.
Carnegie
Carnegie has arrived with a lovely selection of 8 titles all hoping to win The Cilip Carnegie Medal. We will be meeting in the Study Centre Friday lunchtimes at 1:50pm to discuss our favourite book so far, there will be chocolate biscuits to enjoy as well.