Library News
Students from Brooke Weston attended the annual Comic Con convention at Athena in Leicester where they joined in the celebration of comics, TV shows, films and video games.
Students at Brooke Weston were fortunate to be able to Skype with award winning author of ‘Salt to the Sea’ Ruta Sepetys, where they were able to ask questions about her book and life as an author.
Congratulations to Year 7 students Matthew Russell, Anna Bredenkamp and Finlay Short who won prizes for their written book reviews on titles they chose from the Bookbuzz programme at Christmas.
As part of the World Book Day celebrations taking place on Thursday 2nd March, the Library has launched a tutor group competition to guess which members of staff have been caught reading.
Congratulations to Eliza Donnelly, Eliza Markova and Siobhan McGrady in Years 7 and 8 whose book covers’ all won first prize in the ‘Design a Book Cover’ competition.
Brooke Weston is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair in the library from Wednesday 15 to Monday 20 February, where students will be able to purchase the latest books, stationery and posters.
Following the excitement of the Bookbuzz scheme in December where Year 7 students were given a free book from a choice of 12, Librarian Ms Wendy McCabe has launched a book review competition to win the complete selection of books.
Students from Year 10 were invited to attend an afternoon with author Sara Barnard together with two other schools from the Trust at Corby Business Academy.
Sara is a talented British author who has written a number of successful books aimed at young adult readers. Her debut novel, ‘Beautiful Broken Things’ explores the complexity of teenage friendships and features some challenging themes. She has been writing since a young age and gets her love of words from her dad, who made sure she always had a book to read when she was growing up.
This week sees the launch of a competition for all students in Years 7, 8 and 9 to design a book cover and be in with the chance of winning a book of their choice from those available at the Book Fair in February.
Students can design a cover for a book they have read or an imaginary book made up by themselves. The cover should be colourful, intriguing and eye catching and include information about the book, title and author’s name on the spine.
Students are invited to enter a national Harry Potter competition to invent their own magical Professor and be in with the chance of winning a class trip to Warner Bros. Studios in London, where they will have the opportunity to explore original sets from the Harry Potter movies.
The winner, together with 25 runners-up will also receive a hardback box set of the seven Harry Potter books and Harry Potter themed goody bags.
Students from Year 7 received a free book from the Library as part of the Bookbuzz programme. Over 180 books were wrapped by Sixth Formers Jennariece Robson, Louise Sharpe and Sasha Thompson and handed out to students during tutor time.
This week saw the launch of the Year 7 boys' premier league reading challenge. Introduced by Librarian Wendy McCabe, the students split themselves into teams of five, with each team representing a football team in the premier league.
Every student needs to read as many books as possible before the end of season. Each book equates to a goal and the more goals scored the higher up the league table the team goes. A review sheet about the book has to be completed before a goal is awarded, with stickers given for the goal and put on display on the league table in the library.
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