APS Literacy

Hello year 6. Following your work on reading skills with Ms du Plessis, our competition is based on book covers from the ‘Booked Up’ reading list. Next year at APS you will choose a free book from a reading list through the ‘Booked Up’ scheme. To take part in the competition: choose the book cover that appeals most to you, click on ‘Comment’ and get writing! Make sure you state which cover you are writing about. We will judge the comments on how many reading skills you use to comment on the book covers. Use your booklet to help you. The top 3 comments will receive a book voucher and have their work published on the school website. Don’t worry if your work doesn’t appear straight away. We check it before it is published.

Don’t forget Ms du Plessis’ writing competition. More prizes are available. See the APS website for details. Students-Transition-Competitions.

This month the students are reading a Holocaust text as Holocaust Memorial Day is on the 27^th of January. I have recommended ‘The Book Thief’ by Marcus Zusak. There is also the option of writing an article for the year 8 newspapers ‘Ocho Express’, which can be found on the school website under ‘Students’. The next meeting is Wednesday 10^th February. Please post at least one comment about what you are reading before the next meeting.

Miss Freeman

Dear parents and Bright Challengers!

This term we are creating an online newspaper, which be launched before Christmas. Newspaper designs and ideas for names are due Wednesday 11th November and our next meeting is Wednesday 18th November in 201 as usual. During this meeting we will look at the newly created newspaper web design and

decide what we want to include in our first edition. In the meantime get your designs in and start brainstorming, reseraching and drafting ideas for your designated area of the newspaper. These are as follows:

Jennifer, Eliza and Maddie: advice/problems.

Izzy and Anastacia: local news.

Zak, Steven and Jade: APS comics.

Max, Liam and Charlie: Reviews.

APS events: Elisa and Joe.

Sports: David, Sean and Peter.

Teacher’s corner: To be confirmed.

All other roles can be decided at the next meeting.

See you soon.

Miss Freeman.

Dear all,

The first meeting this half term is Wednesday 23rd September. We will be preparing entries for the Usbourne Young Writer’s Award. Entries should handed in at the next meeting on Wednesday 15th October. During the second meeting we will be selecting a book to read as a group from the year 8 ‘Haunted Tales’ Reading List.

Looking forward to seeing you,

Miss Freeman

The next Year 7 Bright Challenge meeting will take place on Thursday 25th June during lunchtime in room 119. Mr Austin will be leading it and doing a creative writing workshop with you. I’m sure it will be fantastic!

I look forward to seeing you all then,

Ms Curran.

This week’s meeting was another great success so thank you to all of you who attended.

Many thanks for the posters for Read It Week, they have been very creative and I’ve been impressed by the excellent standard. Please do keep sending them to me at ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk with our slogan ‘Just Read it’. They need to be completed by next Thursday.

Please do continue to read ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ as we’ll be discussing this at more length in our next meeting. Do post your responses to the book onto the Blog in order that we can all share our ideas. Please complete the activity on poetic terms in your booklets and I look forward to you impressing me with your knowledge in our next session which will be on Thursday 4th June during lunchtime.

Well done to our new APS journalists: Charlie and Liam. I will be contacting you next week to discuss this new role.

Last week’s meeting was very successful; the students had lots of ideas for various books we could read and all proved themselves to be enthusiastic readers. We decided upon ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ and we will be looking at this text in our next meeting.

Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 7th May in room 119. Please bring along the poster for ‘Readit’ week which you are designing or email them to me at ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk. I look forward to seeing them and of course you!

Best wishes, Ms Curran.

Read It News

Change of Year 7 Bright Challenge meeting time: the next meeting will now be on Thursday 11th May, which will be during Read It Week.

Many thanks to all of you who have designed posters. The one that has been chosen for this week to advertise Read It week is Jade Bailey’s (see link). Well done and thank you!

Also do remember that it’s the meeting about the Carnegie prize on Tuedsay 19th May in room 220 during lunchtime, so go along to discuss your ideas.

Well done to our specialist school journalists: Charlie Levenson 7R and Liam Harper 7S , who’ve just had their first interview with their first article being published in the forthcoming newsletter.

Oh and do check out the Read It Blog.

Regards,

Ms Curran.  

The students will have seen these activities in tutor time. Revising these activities will be useful for supporting their Literacy Development.

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Hi all,

Have you strated the book yet? What do you think?

MIss Freeman

Please use this post to log any questions you have about Literacy issues at APS.

Many thanks.