Kiss Kiss Yuck Yuck

Andy hates seeing his aunty. But one day Elsie did not come because she fell off a camel. The next week or the next week to but the next a taxi came then up out came a leg in plaster crutches.

Five Stars *****

By Katherine

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Molly Moon

This is a story about a 9 year old girl who goes to New York and gets rich and about her dog who nearly dies. The characters are Molly rockey Miss Todley, Toodle Ednen and Pifsa Nockmam. And she had to rob a bank and it was Sherlings bank.

Five Stars *****

Anna

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Harry potter

The story is about a boy called Harry Potter that was actually a wizard but Harry Potter didn’t know that he was a wizard so Harry thought Hagret made a mistake. Then Harry went on a train to Hogwarts there he met many adventures including a gigantic troll looking for a key hidden by thousands of insects and fighting the philosopher. I like Harry Potter because I like the characters, curses and houses like Griffindor, Ravenclas, Hufflepuff and Sliverine.


Rating: 5 wands!

By Owen
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harry Potter

The story is about a boy called Harry Potter that is a wizard but he d oesn’t know that he is a wizard and his dad is very very mean and Voldermort gave some of his powers to Harry Ptter and he was the best wizard in the school because the teachers and it is awesome so I rate it five stars *****


by tor
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Harry Potter

This book is about a boy who thinks he’s just an ordinary boy but he’s actually a very famouse wizard. Thousands of letters get sent to his aunt and uncle who are muggles (a muggle is a person who is not magic) the letters are about the famous school (for magic people) Hogwarts of Witchcraft and Wizardry but his aunt and uncle don’t want him to but the Hogwarts game keeper (for two years) Hagrid says he’s going to go. At Hogwarts there are 4 houses Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slitherin. He will have many adventures in his 7 years.

Rating *****

By toby
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Anthony's book review Night Rise

Night Rise is Anthony Horowitz’s latest power of five book. Two telepathic twins Scott and Jamie are only performers at a circus up until they start having weird but vivid dreams and most of all finding out they’re “one of the five” and embark on a super dangerous quest to stop the evil old ones and meet up with the rest of the five. Anthony keeps this book exciting with humor horror and violence. I recommend this book to the age of 10+. I rate this book 9/10.

By Anthony G

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Groosham Grange by Anthony Howowitz

Groosham Grange is a really good book. It’s about a boy called David. David gets expelled from his old school and then he gets sent to Groosham Grange.

At Groosham Grange you only get one day off a year, the French teacher disappears every full moon and new pupils have to sign their names in blood! This book is for kids 10 years old. I rate Groosham Grange 9.5/10

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Claudine At St Clares Book Reveiw by Emma


Claudine At St Clares is a book written by Enid Blyton who is one of my favourite authors. It is a book mainly about Claudine and the twins, Pat and Isabel who are in the fourth form. Claudine goes to St Clares, which is a boarding school, from France which makes her very good at sewing.

Her aunt, Mam’zelle, is the french teacher at St Clares, thinks that Claudine will be very lonely and shy at St Clares but Claudine is quite the opposite. She is very daring, she once locked the Matron in the games closet, with the lacrosse sticks and all that. She hates and detests water but she let herself fall in to soak and punish a mother who offended Mam’zelle and looked down at St Clares.

Claudine doesn’t care what she does really so she often gets in trouble. She loves doing sewing and getting out of games and usually the punishments are something to do with laundry and not getting to swim or play tennis.

When Claudine locks the Matron in the cupboard she gets out of games for a week! Pat and Isabel also have to help the other 3 new girls settle down.

Claudine At St Clares is quite an exciting book and I give it 10/10

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The Many Adventures Of Tom Sawyer By Julius

The many adventures of Tom Sawyer is a popular book first published in 1879. I enjoy this book because it was made about 100 years ago and the character says things like “this bible must have at least cost 6 cents!” It gets interesting when the author introduced a character which was a slave boy. It is a bit hard to understand because of the language they used. Other than that it is a great story.

Verdict: 4.99999999/5


This book review is by Julius.

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Book week

Week five is book week. A week full of activities, reading, competitions and heaps of fun. Don’t forget your chance to dress up as a character from your favourite book. We will be selling books in the library so save up your pocket money and choose from hundreds of different titles. It’s a great chance to stock up on those Christmas presents too. See you there!

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What's On

We were very lucky to have the author and illustrator Fifi Colston visit the Senior School on Thursday. Fifi delighted both staff and students with tales of how she became an author and illustrator. Many of the students are now begging to read her books. Wonderful to see such a response.

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ESOL Other Teacher Resources

***Don’t forget to check out the ESOL folder on First Class as this is regularly updated with newly made games and resources!***

Other ESOL related teacher resources include:
– Classroom instruction that works with English language learners
– Cross Cultural Communication – A resource for staff working with International Students (DVD and Video)
– English Grammar in Use
– English Grammar in Use and Supplementary Exercises
– Exploring Korea
– From Surviving to Thriving in the English Speaking classroom Level 1
– From Surviving to Thriving in the English Speaking classroom Book 3
– Literacy Now for Ages 7-8
– Philips Atlas of New Zealand and the world
– Practise Vocabulary and Grammar Book 3
– Practise Vocabulary and Grammar Book 5
– The code breakers guide to English (Phonics rules)
– Think Global: Global Perspectives in the lower primary classroom

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ESOL Suggested Websites

www.tki.org.nz/r/esol/esolonline/
– This website is designed with units of work, links to activities and advise for New Zealand Primary Classroom Teachers, ESOL Teachers and ESOL Students.

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/tr i
– This is a website that will translate blocks of text and webpages.

www.childrenslibrary.org
– Downloadable stories in a range of languages can be found at this site. These books are in fourteen languages (they are not bilingual) and suitable for students aged from three to thirteen years old.

www.starfall.com
– This website includes on-line books for early readers (approximately yellow-orange on the colour wheel).

www.storyplus.com
– This site has a number of stories in French and English suitable for a range of ages.

www.manythings.org/e/tt.html
– Interesting things for ESOL students. This site includes word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more. It takes a bit longer to search and find appropriate activities but there are some useful things on the site.

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ESOL Picture Packs for Guided Writing

These resources are most suitable for new English learners.
Each pack is barcoded.
They are for teacher issue only.

Favourite places 1
(Contains one picture card and one key word card)
– Library
– School
– The farm
– The shopping mall
– The swimming pool

Favourite places 2
(Contains one picture card and one key word card)
– The Beach
– The Dairy
– The Petshop
– The Playground
– The Zoo

Instructional Writing Packs
(Each pack contains a book, an instruction card and photos and caption cards to sequence)
– How to make a sand saucer
– How to make popcorn
– How to make jelly

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ESOL Language Games

These resources are located in the ESOL resource room and can be borrowed through the ESOL teachers.

– Action Bingo
– Alphabet match wooden puzzle
– Alphabet sound cards
– Basic word snap
– Consonant Snap x2
– Contraction Bingo
– CVC Word Spin
– Farmyard first word pairs
– Guess What? cards
– Ladybug lower/uppercase game
– Lets go to the Zoo
– Let’s go shopping
– Lowercase letters for threading
– Making sense of Measurement puzzles
– More making stories is fun
– Number match wooden puzzle
– Opposites match wooden puzzle
– Press and play – Busy Road
– Press and play – Funny Farm
– Press and play – Make a Meal
– Press and play – Shipwreck
– Silly Sentences
– Smart chute cards – Alphabet
– Smart chute cards – Idioms
– Sound, Read and Snap!
– Spot the difference
– Still making stories is fun
– Storybook picture cards
– Talking Traffic
– Three letter word puzzles
– Time telling card game
– Vowel bingo
– Where’s Puppy? Listening word lotto
– Word detective games

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ESOL Picture Dictionaries

These resources are individually barcoded.
They are for teacher issue only.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary
– English/Chinese
– English/Korean
– English/Japanese

Picture Dictionary for New Learners of English
– Picture Dictionary (8 copies)
– Picture Dictionary Teacher Notes and Activities

– EPB School Picture Dictionary Chinese/English
– The Oxford ABC Picture Dictionary (English)
– Times Visual Dictionary (English)

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