Happy Christmas Kimbookworms!
Friday, 7 December 2018
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Kids' Lit Quiz
Saturday, 3 November 2018
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Monday, 18 June 2018
Carnegie Medal Celebration Day
Sixty pupils from Kimbolton, Comberton, Swavesey, Impington and St Peters celebrated the Carnegie Medal Day this morning with quizzes, discussions, activities and cake! Our local vote for the best book went to After the Fire by Will Hill whilst the Carnegie Medal itself was awarded to Geraldine McCaughrean for her fantastic Where the World Ends.
Friday, 8 June 2018
500 words winners announced
The winners of the BBC 500 words essay competition have been announced today. I defy anyone not to be moved by these stories - they are amazing!
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Friday, 23 March 2018
Dave Cousins
Energetic and funny! Two words pupils used to describe the
award-winning author and illustrator, Dave Cousins, who entertained Ingrams
this morning. Dave spoke about his life and the experiences that led him to
become an author. Plenty of hilarious and lively anecdotes about childhood
dreams, song writing and his own family’s misadventures fuelled his
presentation. Dave also spent time with members of the readers group answering
a myriad of questions from ‘Which superpower would you wish for?’ (to be able to
fly) to ‘Which of your characters would you like to be?’ (the dog). A
real treat for Ingrams who have hopefully been inspired to pick up a book and
escape into another world.
Friday, 9 March 2018
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Festival of Imagined Worlds
Fantasy literature is renowned for bringing ancient
civilisations and contemporary fiction together. You only have to think of the
success of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and Kate O’Hearn’s Pegasus series to
know that the classics still have a relevance for today’s young readers. It was
with this in mind that the Kimbookworms ventured to Oxford to explore how
ancient myths and histories have inspired our favourite literary worlds.
The Iris Festival of Imagined Worlds offered a chance to
meet authors and illustrators and to walk through different fictional worlds
with workshops and activities based on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll and
J.K. Rowling. We were able to see costumes from the Lord of the Rings films,
handle ancient artefacts from the Ashmolean Museum, write in Elvish and even
have our futures read with some tea leaf divination! The visit finished with a
chance to take tea in the Alice in Wonderland café and make some booky purchases.
The chance to dress up as characters from our favourite
fictional worlds couldn’t be missed either. Here are some of the Kimbookworms
preparing for our journey with some wizarding magic.
Competition time
More World Book Day activities - a Character Hunt, Book in the Jar and cakes of course!
Happy World Book Day!
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
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