READING WONDERLAND
N or th f i el d S c h o ol & S p or t s C ol l eg e
R EADING W ONDERLAND STUDENTS MEET QUEEN OF TEEN
Lenard our Library Lion Most Borrowed Library Books this Term
1.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Hard luck By J. Kinney
2.
Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin By J. Anholt
3.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Roderick Rules By J. Kinney 4. 5.
Driftwood By C. Cassidy Tom Gates : Extra Special Treats By L. Pichon
6.
7.
8. 9. 10.
A group of 28 Year 7 and 8 students along with Mrs Cady, Mrs Poppleton and Mrs Collins had a wonderful morning with author Cathy Cassidy. The event was held at Yarm school and was part of Cathy’s tour to promote her new book in the Chocolate Box Girls series – Coco Caramel and was attended by students from lots of school across Stockton. Cathy talked about where she gets inspiration for her books and how she begins to write. She also told us about how she started writing when she was at school but always got in trouble for daydreaming too much. The girls said afterwards her talk inspired many of them to start writing themselves. There was also time to meet Cathy herself for a quick photo and sign a few copies of her new book.
Tom Gates : Everything's Amazing By L.Pichon The boy who had nearly everything By I. Whynbrow Download : Sporting Legends
Year 7 have been busy reading and quizzing as part of the Accelerated Reader programme this term. Accelerated reader is an independent reading programme that encourages and improves students’ reading. All our Year 7s have taken a STAR reading test and chose their own books from the School Library, then when they have finished a book they take a short quiz aiming to get 80%. If they get 100% they move up a level. There are lots of incentives, certificates and prizes for students . Year 7 have been given a target to read 75 million words between them by July 2014; you’re over half way there so keep reading Year 7!
So far Year 7 have read . . . .
George’s Marvelous Medicine By R. Dahl Goodnight Mr Tom By M. Magorian
2100 Books
38,228,634 Words
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
YEAR 7 AR POINTS LEAGUE Position
Tutor Group
Tutor
Points Total
1st
TT
Miss Cook
620.6
2nd
TF
Miss Stenson
574.8
Reading Millionaire
3rd
TR
Mrs Brown
479.1
Ethan Capes Emily Philips Michael Robson James Deakin Taylor Morton
4th
TE
Mrs Yardley
467.5
5th
TO
Mr Birch
459.5
6th
TI
Mr Dwyer
435.6
7th
TH
Miss McClure
422.9
8th
TL
Mr Beasley
406.5
9th
TN
Miss Webb
353.4
10th
TD
Mrs Hetherington
305.5
AR Star Readers
Reading Half Millionaires Harry Armstrong, Stacie Burridge, Lucy Cossavella, Emilie Lumley, Lewis Roe, Bethany Wood. Emma Turnbull 100% on every Quiz Flynn Bainbridge Katie Drewery Harvey Ford Dani Graham Charlie Lonsdale Emily Robson
To check if your books have Accelerated Reader quizzes available simply go to www.arbookfind.co.uk
To check if books are available in the school library, log on to any school PC and go to all programs—library—eclipse to launch the library catalogue search.
YEAR 8 & 9 ACCELERATED
READERS
A number of Year 8 and 9 students have taken up the Accelerated Reader challenge as well and are working really hard to read and quiz on books as an extra on top of all their other school and homework. There have been lots of success and lots of 100%, well done. Year Group
100% Total
Words Read
8
15
58,153
9
36
138,293
N or th f i el d S c h o ol & S p or t s C ol l eg e
BOOKATEERS
A R AW A R D S A S S E M B LY
The Year 8 and 9 book groups have been reading and discussing books around the following themes,
To coincide with World Book Day, Miss Bowes lead an Accelerated Reader Awards Assembly on Monday 3rd March. Students received their awards for Reading Millionaires, Half Millionaires, the tutor group league was announced with Miss Cook’s 7TT storming up to top place. A special mention was given to the over a hundred students who have read more than 10 books since starting Accelerated Reader. Year 7 have been given a target to read 75 million words between them by July; if they achieve this they will get to vote for a teachers or teachers of their choice to perform a forfeit. Top suggestions so far are Mr Dwyer sitting in a bath of beans, teachers doing the Wolviston run in Onesies and Year 7 tutors perform to a funny dance! Any forfeit suggestions can be posted in the box on the Library desk.
Dreams
Tales in Time
Biographies
Graphic Novels
Female characters
Cathy Cassidy
Our favourite authors this term have been Cathy Cassidy, who we met at Yarm School in February, and Suzanne Collins with the release of the next Hunger Games film. If you would like to join one of the book groups or would like a reading list for any of the above themes just ask in the Library and Resource Centre. They also had the tough decision of putting together a list of their top books and voting in the World Book Day poll ‘Writes of Passage’ books that changed your life.
GET CAUGHT READING Year 7 were also given the challenge to get caught reading on World Book Day, the best photos were then shown in assembly the following week and they were all given a prize. Here are some more of the best photos.
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
LIBRARY ACTIVITIES
WORLD BOOK DAY 2014
We celebrated World Book Day all week in the Library and Resource Centre. This included fun activities based around the most popular books in the Library at the moment. Students had a go at doing their own Tom Gates style illustrations, completed puzzles and activities about Percy Jackson and we showed movie style book trailers for new fiction.
All tutor groups received their World Book Day vouchers and were challenged to choose their top 10 children's or young adult books as a group. This was part of the WBD poll of ‘Book that will change your life, the results being released on World Book Day.
The two library book clubs and the student librarians got together for a big book party where they played games with a book theme and enjoyed food, famous from books, including a huge Matilda style chocolate cake and Bertie Bott’s every flavour jelly beans.
Northfield’s team came 2nd in Stockton Libraries first ever World Book Day Quiz. Two teams of students from Years 7 & 8 took on the challenge of the biggest quiz of all about children’s books. It was a tense competition with four rounds including heroes and villains, TV and film, general knowledge and a picture round. Our teams did brilliantly coming 2nd overall– Well done!
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
BOOK AWARDS
AFTER SCHOOL READING A selected group of Year 7 students have been part of an after school reading group. They have been meeting after school every Monday and Thursday reading a special collection of books sent to us from Booktrust. These books were selected as being future classics and are also available on Accelerated Reader. The students worked in small groups with Mrs Martin, Mrs White, Mrs Cady and also some Duke of Edinburgh volunteers to read and explore the books together.
Tony Robinson has won the Blue Peter book award, with Weird Book of Wonders: World War II, the sixth in his Weird World of Wonders series. Katherine Rundell won the Blue Peter book award best story winner for Rooftoppers.
The overall winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award was The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, this award is voted for solely by children and young adults.
NEW BOOKS New fiction books added to the Library this term include award winning titles: ‘Liar and Spy’, ‘Goth Girl and The Ghost of a Mouse’ and ‘Rooftoppers’. If you love ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid ‘then you will enjoy the ‘World of Norm and the Wimpy Vampire’ series. Nonfiction added includes ‘hHw to draw Zombies and Vampires’ and ‘The World’s Deadliest’ series, find out about the worlds deadliest animals, plants, jobs, places and weather. If you have any suggestions of books you would like to see on the Library shelves speak to Mrs Cady or a Student Librarian.
R EADING W ONDERLAND STUDENTS MEET QUEEN OF TEEN
Lenard our Library Lion Most Borrowed Library Books this Term
1.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Hard luck By J. Kinney
2.
Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin By J. Anholt
3.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Roderick Rules By J. Kinney 4. 5.
Driftwood By C. Cassidy Tom Gates : Extra Special Treats By L. Pichon
6.
7.
8. 9. 10.
A group of 28 Year 7 and 8 students along with Mrs Cady, Mrs Poppleton and Mrs Collins had a wonderful morning with author Cathy Cassidy. The event was held at Yarm school and was part of Cathy’s tour to promote her new book in the Chocolate Box Girls series – Coco Caramel and was attended by students from lots of school across Stockton. Cathy talked about where she gets inspiration for her books and how she begins to write. She also told us about how she started writing when she was at school but always got in trouble for daydreaming too much. The girls said afterwards her talk inspired many of them to start writing themselves. There was also time to meet Cathy herself for a quick photo and sign a few copies of her new book.
Tom Gates : Everything's Amazing By L.Pichon The boy who had nearly everything By I. Whynbrow Download : Sporting Legends
Year 7 have been busy reading and quizzing as part of the Accelerated Reader programme this term. Accelerated reader is an independent reading programme that encourages and improves students’ reading. All our Year 7s have taken a STAR reading test and chose their own books from the School Library, then when they have finished a book they take a short quiz aiming to get 80%. If they get 100% they move up a level. There are lots of incentives, certificates and prizes for students . Year 7 have been given a target to read 75 million words between them by July 2014; you’re over half way there so keep reading Year 7!
So far Year 7 have read . . . .
George’s Marvelous Medicine By R. Dahl Goodnight Mr Tom By M. Magorian
2100 Books
38,228,634 Words
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
YEAR 7 AR POINTS LEAGUE Position
Tutor Group
Tutor
Points Total
1st
TT
Miss Cook
620.6
2nd
TF
Miss Stenson
574.8
Reading Millionaire
3rd
TR
Mrs Brown
479.1
Ethan Capes Emily Philips Michael Robson James Deakin Taylor Morton
4th
TE
Mrs Yardley
467.5
5th
TO
Mr Birch
459.5
6th
TI
Mr Dwyer
435.6
7th
TH
Miss McClure
422.9
8th
TL
Mr Beasley
406.5
9th
TN
Miss Webb
353.4
10th
TD
Mrs Hetherington
305.5
AR Star Readers
Reading Half Millionaires Harry Armstrong, Stacie Burridge, Lucy Cossavella, Emilie Lumley, Lewis Roe, Bethany Wood. Emma Turnbull 100% on every Quiz Flynn Bainbridge Katie Drewery Harvey Ford Dani Graham Charlie Lonsdale Emily Robson
To check if your books have Accelerated Reader quizzes available simply go to www.arbookfind.co.uk
To check if books are available in the school library, log on to any school PC and go to all programs—library—eclipse to launch the library catalogue search.
YEAR 8 & 9 ACCELERATED
READERS
A number of Year 8 and 9 students have taken up the Accelerated Reader challenge as well and are working really hard to read and quiz on books as an extra on top of all their other school and homework. There have been lots of success and lots of 100%, well done. Year Group
100% Total
Words Read
8
15
58,153
9
36
138,293
N or th f i el d S c h o ol & S p or t s C ol l eg e
BOOKATEERS
A R AW A R D S A S S E M B LY
The Year 8 and 9 book groups have been reading and discussing books around the following themes,
To coincide with World Book Day, Miss Bowes lead an Accelerated Reader Awards Assembly on Monday 3rd March. Students received their awards for Reading Millionaires, Half Millionaires, the tutor group league was announced with Miss Cook’s 7TT storming up to top place. A special mention was given to the over a hundred students who have read more than 10 books since starting Accelerated Reader. Year 7 have been given a target to read 75 million words between them by July; if they achieve this they will get to vote for a teachers or teachers of their choice to perform a forfeit. Top suggestions so far are Mr Dwyer sitting in a bath of beans, teachers doing the Wolviston run in Onesies and Year 7 tutors perform to a funny dance! Any forfeit suggestions can be posted in the box on the Library desk.
Dreams
Tales in Time
Biographies
Graphic Novels
Female characters
Cathy Cassidy
Our favourite authors this term have been Cathy Cassidy, who we met at Yarm School in February, and Suzanne Collins with the release of the next Hunger Games film. If you would like to join one of the book groups or would like a reading list for any of the above themes just ask in the Library and Resource Centre. They also had the tough decision of putting together a list of their top books and voting in the World Book Day poll ‘Writes of Passage’ books that changed your life.
GET CAUGHT READING Year 7 were also given the challenge to get caught reading on World Book Day, the best photos were then shown in assembly the following week and they were all given a prize. Here are some more of the best photos.
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
LIBRARY ACTIVITIES
WORLD BOOK DAY 2014
We celebrated World Book Day all week in the Library and Resource Centre. This included fun activities based around the most popular books in the Library at the moment. Students had a go at doing their own Tom Gates style illustrations, completed puzzles and activities about Percy Jackson and we showed movie style book trailers for new fiction.
All tutor groups received their World Book Day vouchers and were challenged to choose their top 10 children's or young adult books as a group. This was part of the WBD poll of ‘Book that will change your life, the results being released on World Book Day.
The two library book clubs and the student librarians got together for a big book party where they played games with a book theme and enjoyed food, famous from books, including a huge Matilda style chocolate cake and Bertie Bott’s every flavour jelly beans.
Northfield’s team came 2nd in Stockton Libraries first ever World Book Day Quiz. Two teams of students from Years 7 & 8 took on the challenge of the biggest quiz of all about children’s books. It was a tense competition with four rounds including heroes and villains, TV and film, general knowledge and a picture round. Our teams did brilliantly coming 2nd overall– Well done!
N o r t h f i e l d S c h oo l & S p o r t s C o l l e ge
BOOK AWARDS
AFTER SCHOOL READING A selected group of Year 7 students have been part of an after school reading group. They have been meeting after school every Monday and Thursday reading a special collection of books sent to us from Booktrust. These books were selected as being future classics and are also available on Accelerated Reader. The students worked in small groups with Mrs Martin, Mrs White, Mrs Cady and also some Duke of Edinburgh volunteers to read and explore the books together.
Tony Robinson has won the Blue Peter book award, with Weird Book of Wonders: World War II, the sixth in his Weird World of Wonders series. Katherine Rundell won the Blue Peter book award best story winner for Rooftoppers.
The overall winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award was The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, this award is voted for solely by children and young adults.
NEW BOOKS New fiction books added to the Library this term include award winning titles: ‘Liar and Spy’, ‘Goth Girl and The Ghost of a Mouse’ and ‘Rooftoppers’. If you love ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid ‘then you will enjoy the ‘World of Norm and the Wimpy Vampire’ series. Nonfiction added includes ‘hHw to draw Zombies and Vampires’ and ‘The World’s Deadliest’ series, find out about the worlds deadliest animals, plants, jobs, places and weather. If you have any suggestions of books you would like to see on the Library shelves speak to Mrs Cady or a Student Librarian.
