Christ Church pupil Alfie (top) sitting on siblings Will, Nancy and George (at bottom)
Jane Broadis, Year 6 Teacher at Christ Church School set the children a summer holiday challenge .. a Literacy Photo Competition.
The task was to visit London and take a picture with one of the fifty unique BookBench sculptures over the capital, designed by local artists and famous names that celebrate London’s literary heritage and reading for enjoyment.
” We wanted to encourage local families connected with the school to take a trip to London this summer and see the amazing benches and to take an inspired photo. Children may well have read some of the novels featured or read other books by some of the authors whose work has been illustrated in the four Books About Town trails organised by the National Literacy Trust.”
All photos taken by Christ Church children were displayed in the school when term started and each class voted for their favourite.
“Votes were cast and at the end of the first full week of term a winner was announced, Alfie in Reception – with a photo of him sitting on a pile of his siblings: George, Will and Nancy, by the Dr Seuss bench, reading his favourite book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Alfie won a £10 Chorleywood Bookshop token.
“For me, my favourite was the War Horse bench.” adds Jane, “Somehow the cavalry charge in black and white, separated with barbed wire from the blood splattered poppies in the foreground were perfect images to reflect the horrors of war encapsulated in Morpurgo’s book.”
Read more details in a piece Jane wrote for the National Literacy Trust about the competition
http://www.booksabouttown.org.uk/?action=ViewNews&Id=37
http://www.booksabouttown.org.uk/
Photos below show War Horse bench and the back of A Brief History of Time (the Big Bang!)
