The deadline for the Extreme Reads Competition, for all reading credits and for readathon money is 26th June. We look forward to receiving these from you!

Prizes will be awarded in the following week.

Also a reminder to Year 9 students to email their poems to me(ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk) so that I can send them off to Foyle’s Young Poet of the Year competition. Oh and well done for writing such fantastic poems!

Ms Curran.

8P have some excellent entries for Extreme Reads. Well done!

We’ve had some fantastic entries for the Extreme Reads competition, so many thanks for this. It’s going to be difficult to judge! Some students have been absailing off mountains and having their picture taken. I’ve been very impressed with the inventive places you’ve found.

Keep reading and snapping!

Ms Curran.

Have a look at the extreme reads from Pendarren – students certainly went to great lengths.

Take part in the APS Extreme Reading competion as part of Read It Week! Take a picture of yourself reading in a bizarre place and email it to Ms Curran: ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk

 Have a look at the following link to inspire you:http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/image_galleries/redbridge_extreme_reading_gallery.shtml

Post a comment here to review what you are reading. It could be anything. Just read it! Alternatively, use the link in ‘Other sites’ to post a review on the Book Week Blog. There will be a prize for the student with the most blogging activity. Enjoy your reading….

Start collecting sponsors for Readathon.

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Chat to other fundraisers about how you are getting on. There is a prize for the best blogger!

In Languages, Year 7 and 8 are reading in Spanish ‘El Patito Feo’ ( The Ugly Duckling).  Students are learning some new vocabulary through pictograms, identifying words that can be translated without the use of a dictionary and doing a morphological analysis of sentences to identify verbs, nouns and adjectives. Students read in pairs and out loud to realise how phonetical and straight forward is to read in Spanish.  Below are some of their comments on the book:

Miss Knight’s science classes (8K and 8R) have been taking part in ‘Science in the News’. They have been reading and reviewing news articles that link science to everyday life: below they have posted reviews.

This is one for people who enjoyed reading Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass).  Or for those who enjoyed the film The Golden Compass – in which case you should definitely read the books as well!

Follow the link below and then follow the link at the top to ‘daemons’.  When you select ‘meet your daemon’, it takes you through 20 questions and then tells you what yours was.  Post a comment below, telling us what yours was – staff too please!  Mine was a fox…

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/