Our final Library Activity was
with Goodman’s House and what a fun six weeks it has been! In week one, we
discussed fiction and discovered that Goodman’s House has a lot of horror fans who
provided some brilliant book recommendations. There was also a very lively
debate about books vs films.
Week two was all about book
covers and there were lots of interesting points made about the importance of
colour, fonts, and illustrations. The conclusion was that whilst we are not
meant to judge a book by its cover we all do!
Non-fiction was the topic for week
three. Goodman’s were great at the Dewey Quiz and we had some good book choices
in the Treasure Hunt, although there were a couple of questionable ones! We
also talked about our trip to the British Library and there were a lot of
enthusiastic questions.
During presentations prep in week
four, everyone worked really well resulting in some excellent presentations in
week five. We were impressed by everyone’s efforts and particularly loved the
use of graphs which are obviously popular with Goodman’s House folk! After a
lot of deliberating, we awarded Lottie and Hattie third place for their
presentation on Penguin Publishing. They had a lot of interesting information
and made good use of their notes and handouts.
Dan and Dan came second for their
presentation - Books vs eBooks. It was very detailed and well thought out with
lots of charts and pictures. They also had a good introductory slide and worked
well as a team.
First place went to Arthur and
Stefan for their presentation on Book Covers and Illustrations. Their research
was thorough and detailed, their examples of good and bad covers were excellent,
and well explained, and they were very confident in their delivery.
We also awarded commendations to
Tom and Ollie for their presentation about their favourite books. They worked very
well together and had done some good research on the authors that they chose.
Week six was quiz week. After a
fun trawl through the history of BGS involving sweets (don’t ask!), the highly
competitive quiz commenced. Three rounds
and some dubious dance moves later, our winners were Wasabi Soap with a one
point lead!
Thank you Goodman’s House for a fantastic
finale to the school year! We’ve had a brilliant time with all our Year 7s and
we hope you all have a lovely summer.
Mrs Osafo, Mrs
Godden, and Miss Rose