All of the research shows us that one of the key things we can do as adults to help encourage the children around us to read, is to just read ourselves. Young children mimic the actions of those around them, meaning if our actions are centred around good reading...
Hanna: My Holocaust Story by Goldie Alexander Hanna has dreams of being a gymnast. But in 1939 the Nazis invade her home, Warsaw, and everything changes. All Jews are being rounded up and being threatened. Her family escape to a farm with their housekeeper, but how...
Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins When it comes to wild animals, everyone knows that there are certain things you just don’t do. It’s clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python’s tail, or...
Heads & Tails: Insects by John Canty At first we can only see the insects tails. Some clues help us try to identify each insect as we learn more about each one. Now, can you guess the insect that each tail belongs to before they are revealed once the page is...
I Wonder by K. A. Holt | Preparatory Library | Junior Library | In this unusual text, young listeners and readers follow a group of diverse kids trying to make sense of the world as they see it. Questions such as What do clouds taste like?, Do my toys miss me when...
Divergent – Veronica Roth Throughout this term, I have been reading the first book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth.In this dystopian thriller, society is split into ‘factions’ based on their key personality traits and/or values. I gained an...
On this day in 1993, US lawyer #RuthBaderGinsburg was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Ginsburg championed women's rights and dedicated her career to fighting gender inequality.
Ruth passed away in 2020. #trinitygrammarschool #RBG
On this day in 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. Almost 100,000 people died instantly and many hundreds of thousands more later from radiation.
On this day in 2017, French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain announced that they had signed popular Brazilian goal scorer, Neymar for more than 222 Million euro.
Head to the biography section to read Neymar's story
