Two weeks until Book Week

Starting to build up momentum towards Book Week now. The Dragon project has proved very popular..such a fun thing to do. Lots of teachers have joined in too, including the two lovely lady PE teachers which has been brilliant.



The Parents have started to decorate the entrance hall this week and caused some raised eyebrows! They took some old books which had not sold at the last Book Fair and made a mobile from them. This did involve lots of tearing, cutting and stapling which caused me a few palpitations until I saw the results. They have created a stunning piece of art work but it is quite provocative. A couple of the teachers complained about the message we were sending the students so I sent a damage control mail outlining the creativity and imagination used in this piece of artistic recycling and things seem to have gone quiet again.

Next week I will be giving the students bookmark templates to take home and colour so that they can have a lasting reminder of Book Week.

Library skills are going quite well, Yr 3 and 4 are now doing an online survey to test what they have learned about Fiction organisation and the 5s are really getting into Dewey! Games and competitions certainly make it more interesting for me and hopefully the kids, but it does make for a lot of news as different teams vie to be the first to get the correct answer. Hard to design a quiet game, I find.

Still no functioning Oliver - I presented to the SMT last week about what should be available and that it wasn't. Not sure if it will make a big difference, once again a waiting game.

Still no orders, still no refund of the money I paid for Daily 7/10. Haven't even been paid yet.....this financial crisis is no joke anymore.