World Book Day 2021!

1st March 2021Miss A Masih

Hindhayes Infant School - World Book Day Cover Photos

Thursday 4th March. We have exciting competitions for students and staff lined up – further details via assembly.

Photo Competition ‘A Place to Read’  

Take a photo of yourself reading in your chosen location. Use your imagination!

 

All staff and students are  invited to take part!  

Deadline – Tuesday 2nd March. 

 Register for World Book Day

World Book Day Tokens 

Print your personal £1 tokens here

Feeling creative? 

You and the Academy stand a chance to win HUNDREDS of pounds worth of books with our Design a Book Token Competition 

 
Bosworth Bake Off – WORLD BOOK DAY SPECIAL. Details here Deadline – Thursday 11th March.
Costume Competition – ‘Escape into Fantasy’. 

We would like to invite all students and staff to participate in our ‘Escape into Fantasy!’ costume competition. Who is your favourite ‘fantasy’ character? Who has helped you ‘escape’ for a while? Whether in school or on screen, you can take part. Upload your photo by 4pm on Thurs 4th March.
 

The Black Flamingo - Mr B's EmporiumAn interview with Dean Atta, the author of The Black Flamingo, a brilliant Young Adult LGBTQ verse novel, who has been named one of the most influential LGBT+ people in the UK. Follow the link here to a recording the fantastic event that took place on Wednesday 24 Feb. 

 World Book Day Resources for Libraries

Books, Reading, eBook Library

Follow the link to the latest eBook recommendations from Mrs Griffiths. 

To access our library catalogue & ebooks, log into our school website and click on the link for Accessit (under The Compass links) https://uk.accessit.online/bsw00 which is our library catalogue (students need to be logged into the school website to be able to use this).

Any queries or issues, please email Mrs Griffiths, the School Librarian [email protected]

 

Bedrock stars spring prize draw

25th February 2021Miss A Masih

Bedrock stars spring prize draw

With the second half of the spring half term split across remote and classroom learning, it’s vital that students continue to learn consistently on Bedrock.

To reward students’ hard work learning important academic vocabulary on Bedrock, we’re giving away two Chromebook laptops and 50 £10 Amazon vouchers!

Our 52 winners will be chosen at random from all students who earn 120 or more Bedrock Points this half term.

Students don’t need to take any action to be entered – we’ll automatically identify those who have earned 120 points in the time

 

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

23rd February 2021Miss A Masih

 

 

Almost 200 years ago, on 23 February 1821, the English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome at the age of 25. “I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave – thank God for the quiet grave,” he told his friend Joseph Severn, in whose arms he died. “I can feel the cold earth upon me – the daisies growing over me – O for this quiet – it will be my first.”

Keats gave instructions for his headstone to be engraved with the words “here lies one whose name was writ in water”, and visitors to Rome’s Protestant cemetery can still make a pilgrimage to see it today. But far from being “writ in water”, Keats’s words continue to echo, with a host of writing and events lined up to mark the 200th anniversary of his death.

‘Romeo and Juliet’, a Valentine’s treat for all!

8th February 2021Miss A Masih

 

Watch out for a dramatised production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which will be streaming online over half term. This is a set text for Year 11 and Year 10 and a fantastic opportunity to experience theatre at home. There will be prizes for the best dressed theatre  photos of you watching it with your family! Letters will be sent out to parents/carers this week with  information about how to access a student ticket price. Here’s a sneak preview…