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Macmillan Coffee morning
Thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan Coffee morning and our after school cake sale on Friday. Our new leadership ambassadors did a fantastic job helping our visitors and making everyone feel welcome.
Together, we raised just short of £113 for Macmillan!
Thank for helping us to support this great cause to provide valuable care for so many families living with cancer.
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Lindsay Galvin, Call of the Titanic… and other adventures linked to the sea…
If you like historical fiction and exciting action and suspense, this new adventure story by Lindsay Galvin could be for you. Most suitable for Y5 and Y6 readers, it draws on the real story of the sinking of the Titanic and the imagined experience of a 3rd class steward on board at the time of the disaster that is based on Sid Daniels – the last crew member to survive the Titanic. Alongside Sid’s part-fact/part-fiction story is the dramatic imagined tale of 12-year-old Clara Scott who is fed up with being told what to do at home and desperate to see the world. In a split second of anger with her family, she decides to hide in her cousin’s trunk and run away, but finds herself locked inside the trunk and at sea on RMS Carpathia. Little does she know, that quite apart from her own troubles, she is about to get caught up in the Titanic rescue mission…
Facts are interwoven with imagination to create a fast-paced story which draws you quickly into the tension of the Titanic’s tragic voyage through the eyes of stowaway Clara and Sid’s imagined letters and evidence to the US Senate Inquiry into the disaster. Several of the characters are based on people who really were involved in the Carpathia rescue. We also meet a very lovable Newfoundland dog, Rigel (rhymes with Nigel!) who looks like a bear and plays a vital role in the story and helps to solve a rather fantastical mystery that has been intriguing Captain Rostron of the Carpathia and Clara.
If you enjoy this story, why not try another book by Lindsay Galvin? Her books are typically rooted in real events from the past and build on imagined lives of people who were actually alive at the time to develop exciting fantasy and adventure stories. As well as being dramatic, these tales also make you want to find out more about the characters and settings that they are based on…
Washed ashore on the Galápagos Islands after a violent storm, former cabin boy and now assistant to the young naturalist Charles Darwin, Syms Covington, encounters a mysterious lizard-like creature and some intriguing golden eggs. He faces a huge challenge as he tries to survive on the island and then find his way home… and make the difficult decision about what to do about his amazing discovery…
While 12-year-old Lavinia (Vinnie) Fyfe’s mother is unexpectedly away in Paris, she stays with her aunt and begins work in the aquarium tea shop in Brighton. She makes friends with Charlie, the aquarium keeper’s nephew, and Temitayo, the African ward of an English gentleman, and together they develop the confidence to challenge some of the social expectations of Victorian England. A new exhibit arrives – an enormous and intriguing giant octopus – and Vinnie begins to build up a special relationship with it as she develops her talent for art. As this bond grows, Vinnie and her friends become more determined to solve the mystery of her mother’s sudden departure, and work out what to do with the disturbing discoveries they make about Victorian fashion and the lives of the children who work in factories to produce it…
Why not give one of these great stories a try?
Macmillan Coffee morning
With the help of our new ambassadors, on Friday September 29th, 9:15-10:15, we will be joining in with the ‘World’s biggest coffee morning’ to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The money raised goes to support Macmillan in their work to provide Macmillan nurses, online advice, telephone support lines and many other ways to help people living with cancer and their families. Please come along with a donation to enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and a slice of cake with us to raise money for this great cause.
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