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Book Fair – The Norfolk Children’s Book Centre

The Norfolk Children’s Book Centre is once again coming to Taverham Hall School on 3 separate occasions:

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Book sale for all Pre-Prep and Prep school pupils and class talks for Years 3 and 4.

Thursday 23 February 2012

Book sale for all Pre-Prep and Prep school pupils and class talks for Years 5 and 6.

Friday 11 May 2012

Book sale for all Pre-Prep and Prep school pupils and class talks for Years 7 and 8.

The Norfolk Children’s Book Centre is a local book shop, based in Alby and has some very knowledgeable and enthusiastic members of staff, who are book experts. Their expertise and enthusiasm will be invaluable in selecting the ‘right’ book for and with your child, in making book suggestions and in providing reading tips.

During class and breaktimes, pupils will be given the opportunity to come and browse and purchase books.

Parents from the Pre-Prep and Prep school are welcome to come and browse, ask questions or purchase books from:

15:00 until 17:00 hours on Monday 11 October 2011

16:00 until 17:00 on Thursday 23 February 2012

15:00 until 17:00 on Friday 11 May 2012

Posted in 33-September-2011, Forthcoming Events, Library on August 28th, 2011

Haileybury Creative Writing Winners

We are delighted to announce that Year 5 pupil, Abigail Foster, has been awarded a First Place Certificate of Merit in the Haileybury Creative Writing Competition.

Year 5 pupil, Harry Williamson, was also awarded a Second Place Runners-Up Certificate for his creative writing entry.

An awards’ ceremony will be held on Saturday 14th May at Haileybury School.

Posted in 29-May-2011, Library, Prep on May 22nd, 2011

Book Design Competition

Well done to our Year 3 pupils Eddie Darley, Charlie Greeves and Tilly Mann, all of whom were winners of the Book Design Competition held to celebrate World Book Day.

The children had to design an original front cover for their favourite book and write a description for the back and were awarded the prize of a Book Token each.

ALL entries will be displayed in the library.

Posted in 29-May-2011, Library, Prep on May 22nd, 2011

Mr Rory Clements’ 3rd Book Launch

We would like to invite pupils, parents and staff to come along and join us at the Holt Bookshop (in Holt), at 6.30pm on Friday 13th May to celebrate the launch of parent Mr Rory Clements’ book PRINCE: the third book in the award-winning John Shakespeare series.

Drinks, nibbles, book signings and a short talk. Children welcome (George and Madeleine will be there).

Posted in 29-May-2011, Library on May 6th, 2011

Spelling Bee Winners

At the end of the Spring term, our pupils were buzzing with spelling madness in preparation for the new fiercely competitive House Spelling Bee Competition.

All pupils gained at least one house point for their house, culminating in them being able to achieve 15 house points in the final, if they won their year group’s competition.

The quarter-final, semi-final and final were nerve wracking elimination rounds, in which they had to spell the words out loud and in the case of the final: in front of the whole school! Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 28-April-2011, Library, Prep on May 4th, 2011

OT Philip Pullman (Northern Lights) writes in!

Our Head of English, Miss Chapman, wrote to a number of authors back in the summer to see if they could send a signed photograph for a display in our library.

Miss Chapman was delighted when she received a signed book and postcard from Philip Pullman, a renown children’s author. Philip has written Northern Lights and many other successful and popular books.

His letter revealed that he actually attended Taverham Hall School in 1955 and has happy memories of his time here:

Obviously, our pupils and Miss Chapman were ecstatic about finding this out and hope he will come and visit soon!

Link to his official website:

http://www.philip-pullman.com/index.asp

http://www.philip-pullman.com/about.asp

Posted in 22-October 2010, Library, Old TH Pupils, Prep on May 3rd, 2011

Book Fair

After last year’s success the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre visited Taverham Hall School again.

They organised another great day with workshops and activities and it was lovely to see so many pupils enjoying and getting excited about books!

Posted in 27-March-2011, Library on April 26th, 2011

WORLD BOOK DAY

Taverham Hall School celebrated World Book Day by doing a DEAR (Drop Everything and Read).

Staff and pupils were seen reading, all over the school for a period of 20 minutes – have a look at some of the photos below:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 27-March-2011, Library, Prep on March 11th, 2011

Caught Reading Competition

The “Caught Reading” competition which commenced at the end of the summer term, proved to be very popular with the pupils; there were many entries from a range of years.

The winner was Year 6 pupil Harry with a fantastic photograph of him reading whilst wake boarding! Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Library on October 15th, 2010

Murder Mystery Games

Our Year 7 pupils have been creating their own ‘Murder Mystery Games’ in English. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 15 - March 2010, Library, Prep on April 1st, 2010