Super Hero competition

Who's your reading Super Hero?

• They read to you, they bring books alive.
• They make you want to read, they work at your school.
• They are reading super heroes and we want to give them a super reward!
• To enter the competition, please fill in the form (all fields are required).
• Entries close at the end of Term 1, 15 April 2011.

NZ Post Book Awards 2011

The finalists have been announced. We will have most of the books in our library soon. Now's the time for you to get cracking and write your own stories, poems or piece of creative writing. You could be one of 50 children to have their work published in an awesome book. Check out last year's winners in the library for examples of what the judges are after. There is money and book tokens to be won. Enter here for story tips or to submit your writing. You may enter as many times as you like. From 21 March a winner will be drawn each week from entries submitted. Go for it writers.
To vote online for your favourite book from this year's entries click here.

Lexile Book Prize Winners 2010

Congratulations to these students for gaining book prizes this year for reading lots of books and passing quizzes on them. To win a book prize students must gain a silver or gold award by achieving 250 or 500 points. We are very grateful to Whitcoulls, Timaru who sponsor the book prizes and have done so for five years. Thank you Rachel and Whitcoulls for your support. Well done Cody, Richard, Jacob (who was just out of the frame), Jordan, Jordyn, Yi Ran, Kate, Analiese, Courtney, Emma, Samantha and Jessica.

Hanan Kindy Visit

On Wednesday 17 November, Kate Haley, Olivia Black and Hannah Leonard accompanied Mrs Ross to Hanan Kindergarten to read to the four year olds. Kate and Olivia did a great job reading and Hannah was the official photographer. After reading their books aloud to the group of very good listeners, the girls were given a most important job presenting each child with two Duffy Books. The three girls then helped the children stick in their book labels and spent time with them at various fun activities. Everyone enjoyed the visit which is a neat way to ease the transition to school for the kindy kids and an opportunity for our students to share their love of reading and books.

Lexile Reading Star

Yi Ran Ong is a quintuple word millionaire. She has read over five million words by reading 128 books and passing the quizzes on them to gain 885 points in Lexile reading. This is a fantastic achievement and as Yi Ran still has another year at Bluestone we can only wonder at what her final count will be. A very keen reader, Yi Ran has also just gained her Silver Librarian's Award. Yi Ran loves books by Kate Constable, Kate Forsyth, Malinda Lo and has recently discovered Tamora Pierce. Yi Ran is really great at adding book suggestions for the library to buy and displaying the books she has enjoyed for others to see. Well done Yi Ran.

Exciting new Harry Potter website

Harry Potter and JK Rowling fans will love this new website launched by Bloomsbury Publishers. Lots of fun stuff to do, videos to watch and author information too. Visit the site here

Interview with author Andy Griffiths

If you missed the recent interview on Breakfast with author Andy Griffiths, you can watch it here. His books are very popular at Bluestone and yes, we have bought The Very Bad Book. Visit his website too, it's fun.