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  • 100 books to read before you are 11!

    Fri 18 Mar 2016

    The Times Educational Supplement and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers' top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school.  How many has your child read so far?

    TES and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers' top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school. Here are the results.

     

    1          Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

    2          Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

    3          Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    4          Matilda by Roald Dahl

    5          The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

    6          The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis

    7          The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

    8          We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

    9          Dogger by Shirley Hughes

    10        Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

    11        Stig of the Dump by Clive King

    12=      Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

    12=      The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

    14        Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

    15        Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne

    16        Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

    17=      Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson

    17=      The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

    19        Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss

    20        War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

    21=      Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

    21=      The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr

    23        Peace at Last by Jill Murphy

    24        Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

    25        Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd

    26        Not Now Bernard by David Mckee

    27        Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

    28        The Twits by Roald Dahl

    29        I am David by Anne Holm

    30        The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

    31        The Paddington series by Michael Bond

    32        Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch

    33        Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

    34        Five Children and It by E Nesbit

    35        Clockwork by Phillip Pullman

    36        The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    37        The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton

    38        Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury

    39        Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

    40        The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

    41        The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy

    42        The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes

    43        Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield

    44        Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

    45        Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

    46        Sad Book by Michael Rosen

    47        The Borrowers by Mary Norton

    48=      A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown

    48=      The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg

    50        Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

    51        Coraline by Neil Gaiman

    52        Zoo by Anthony Browne

    53        Treasure Island by R L Stevenson

    54        Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

    55        Cinderella by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti

    56        Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman

    57        The Railway Children by E Nesbit

    58        Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman

    59=      Kidnapped by R L Stevenson

    59=      The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith

    61=      Beegu by Alexis Deacon

    61=      The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

    63=      Eragon by Christopher Paolini

    63=      The Mr Men and Little Miss series by Roger Hargreaves

    65=      Gentle Giant by Michael Morpurgo

    65=      Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

    67        The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

    68        Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti

    69        Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

    70        Theseus and the Minotaur by David Orme and Wendy Body

    71=      The Just William series by Richmal Crompton

    71=      On the Way Home by Jill Murphy

    71=      Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

    71=      Street Child by Berlie Doherty

    71=      The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

    76=      Angelo by Quentin Blake

    76=      The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers

    76=      The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

    79        My Mum by Anthony Browne

    80=      The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    80=      The Tunnel by Anthony Browne

    82=      Face by Benjamin Zephaniah

    82=      The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp

    84        The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

    85=      Click Clack Moo: cows that type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin

    85=      The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

    85=      The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

    88=      I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

    88=      The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

    88=      The Early Years at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

    88=      Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

    92=      Birds Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell

    92=      The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

    94        The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Proysen

    95=      The Asterix Series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

    95=      The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton

    97        The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo

    98        The Kipper series by Mick Inkpen

    99=      The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley

    99=      The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson

  • Year One visit to Marwell

    Fri 04 Mar 2016

    Year One have enjoyed a fantastic visit to Marwell Zoo.  We found out lots of information in our rainforest workshop about how the conditions in the rainforest differ to the UK, as well as learning about rainforest animals.  We even got to see some of the animals up close!  We also spent time looking around the zoo at the other animals.

     “I enjoyed touching all the animal skins especially the Ocelot because it was nice and soft” Amelie

    I enjoyed feeling the snake skin because I like snakes. It felt scaly” George

    In school we have been working on our rainforest poems in Literacy where we have been using adjectives and verbs and even rhyme to make our poems more interesting.  Here are some lines from our poems:

    Three cheecy tigoos jumping in the mud. Matheu

    Three nortee grorilos fighting in a boat. Ethan

    We are also enjoying making our comic strips in ICT.  We have started to create our storyboards and we will soon be creating the comic on the iPads using the ‘POW’ app

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