Welcome to Roding Reads, YOUR weekly newsletter on all things reading. Lets FILL this with your work and pictures EVERY week. Send all your pictures and writing to: ajones@rodingvalley.net.
Roding Caught Reading Roding, we need YOU! Next week we want you Year 7 and 8! Get caught reading, and send us a picture!
Ms Boulis: Happily Imperfect In Happily Imperfect, be moved to tears and laughter by joining Stacey Solomon in her journey so far, as she reveals how to stay positive despite the everyday pressure to be and look perfect.
Mrs Collins: The Binding The Binding slowly unravels a mystery surrounding Emmett Farmer, a farmhand whose life is changed when he receives a cryptic summons, pressing him into service as an apprentice to a Bookbinder. It is an invitation he is both drawn to and desperate to run from.
Book of the Month: The Valley of Lost Secrets
When Jimmy is evacuated to a small village in Wales, it couldn't be more different from London. Green, quiet and full of strangers, he instantly feels out of place. But then he finds a skull hidden in a tree, and suddenly the valley is more frightening than the war. Who can Jimmy trust? Games Corner—Tracy Beaker
Do you have a rocking horse like Ms Boulis or are you going to strike a pose like Mrs Collins?
Accelerated Reader How to log on to Accelerated Reader: Click here or go to RVHS website and click the link for Accelerated Reader at the bottom of the website, under Key Information. Username: first letter of first name and first four letters of last name. Password: ABC
Last week’s answers (15.1.21) 1. George Orwell 2. On a farm in England 3. Mr Jones 4. Boar 5. Manor Farm 6. Communism and Russian Revolution
Tracy Beaker - Read the book for FREE! You can read Tracy Beaker for free, by clicking the book cover!
If you would like access to a free Tracy Beaker activity pack, click the pencil!
Writer’s Corner A tense thriller, filled with metaphors by Sam Foster in 7 Argon!
Writing from the perspective of a snowflake—by Sapphire Fyffe in 7 Beryllium
These are just a handful of the great entries we got into the short-story competition over the break. Well done to all of you who submitted something! Please send us some more of your great writig and drawings, for next week to ajones@rodingvalley.net
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Why not unleash your inner artist and write a poem for us all to enjoy?
Why not design an alternative book cover for one of your favourite books? Bring a bit of colour to our newsletter!
Check out Audible Stories It is also worth nothing that, for as long as schools are closed, Audible is making its extensive collection of children's audio books available to stream free of charge: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen. It is definitely worth a visit!