Wellbeing

Well, one week down! We hope you’ve been looking after your body as well as your mind.

If you haven’t tried it already, why not give Joe Wicks, the Body Coach’s daily PE session at try?  It goes out live on YouTube at 9am Monday to Friday and is great fun and a good workout.

You may also like to try Yoga with Adrienne – available to view on YouTube.  Ms Dos Anjos Santos uses these videos as part of her school yoga club.  To help you maintain a calm and healthy mind whilst being confined to your home, check out the Smiling Mind website.  

Try to see the current situation as an opportunity to learn new things or do things that you have been putting off because you haven’t had the time.  Look for something to feel grateful for each day and maybe write it down in a gratitude diary.

And finally, Ms Roberts, Librarian at TRS, has put together a really useful guide to working comfortably at home on the TRS Library blog.  Click here to view.

Virtual Story Time

If you love David Walliams and would like to hear him reading his very funny, cautionary tale of Trish the Troll from The Worlds Worst Children 2 click here.

Always wanted to read one of the classics, maybe Great Expectations by Charles Dickens or Moby Dick by Herman Melville, but never had time?  Follow these links to download a PDF or audio book:

Where to find great literature:

https://readgreatliterature.com/how-to-find-great-literature-online-for-free/

Classic Children’s Audio Books:

https://www.researchify.co.uk/audiobooks.html

Free Literary resources

The School Librarians Group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have also put together a list of free academic resources for schools during the Covid-19 closures - click here to view.

The National Literacy Trust have created a family zone section on their website for children 9 to 12.  It includes a wide variety of activities and talks including a poetry workshop with the wonderful YA author Sarah Crossan.  To view click here.

Lucas Maxwell, former School Librarians of the Year, has put together a list of really useful free resources on his Library Blog - click here to view.

Free Online Resources and Activities for Books Lovers from the British Library

Discovering Children's Books is a brilliant new online resource from the British Library.

It features a wealth of treasures, activities and interviews with authors including Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson, offering tips for budding writers.

EPHS Library Services

It was really encouraging that so many of you have borrowed books to keep you going until we return to school.  Remember that you can also download free eBooks, eComics or audiobooks via the OneDrive or Libby App as well as a member of your local public library.  If you have any queries about this service do give your local public library a call and they will be able to advise you.  For Bromley Libraries contact details please click here.

We will still be running our Word of the Week competition and will be posting the winning words on the Library blog each week, with words chosen from the multitude of entries that we have already received.  Prizes will be awarded to the winning entrants when we return to school. 

We would love you to send us book reviews and will be awarding achievement points and posting them on the Library blog or tweeting them as usual. The Book Trust website offers some excellent tips and advice on how to write a book review.  To view click here.  There will also be prizes available for particularly good reviews.  Simply email your review to Mrs Nolan at cnolan@eph.e21c.co.uk.

For those of you who will be working on your creative writing, The Book Trust website also provides brilliant hints and tips for writing, including advice from authors.  To view click here.

We hope you stay safe and well and make time to escape into a good book.  You may like to check out the blog post by Ms Roberts, the Librarian at TRS on Covid-19 and your mental health.

Mrs Nolan, Librarian and Ms Peters, Trainee Librarian

CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2020 Announced!

Access to free ebooks, audiobooks and online research resources

Did you know that you can enjoy free access to a large range of eBooks, eAudiobooks and eComics via your local public library?  

You simply need your library card number and your PIN to gain free access via the Overdrive website or the Libby app.  

If you are not already a member, you can join online.

You will also have free access to some great online research resources such as Britannica Student, Issues Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and much more. 

Match the Teacher to the Book - winners announced!

Congratulations to all those who correctly identified the teacher with the book in our ‘Match the Teacher to the Book’ competition. The correct answers were:

Prizes have been awarded to the eleven correct entrants.  Our winners are:

Hermione (Year 7), Matilda (Year 7), Lola F (Year 7), Kaydee (Year 7), Eryk (Year 7)  Millie (Year 7), Lola R (Year 7),  AJ (Year 8), Summer (Year 8),  Elijah (Year 8) and Kyle (Year 8).

Well done to everyone who entered - achievements points have been awarded for taking part.

British Science Week 2020

This week is Science Week across the UK; a celebration of all things related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Here at EPHS there have been several science activities throughout the week including 'Meet the Professional' sessions with a doctor and a biochemist.

In the Library we have put together a display to highlight diversity within the STEM industry inspired by the smashing stereotypes campaign. The display shows some of the amazing people that have made a huge impact in the science world and showcases some of the many books we have in the library relating to science such as A Lab of One’s Own by Patricia Fara, How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee and Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman. 

If Science Week has inspired you be sure to check out the careers section of the library featuring the STEM jobs for… series.

Ms Peters - Trainee Librarian, Trainee Science Technician

EPHS PTA Book Donation Scheme

We have had an amazing response from parents to the EPHS PTA appeal for book donations for the KS4/KS5 Library made via the Amazon wish list. So far, we have received around ninety books and would like to say a very big thank you for your generous support of the school libraries!

All the books received so far have now been processed and catalogued and are available for the students to borrow ahead of the Upper School Library opening, although they may require a parental note of permission to do so.  

World Book Day 2020

World Book Day is a day set aside each year to celebrate reading, books, authors and illustrators. This year it takes place on Thursday 5th  March.

At EPHS, there will be a wide range of fun activities, competitions and displays to promote reading for pleasure throughout the school, including Drop Everything And Read, and the Library's brilliant Match the Teacher to the Book competition.  Collect your entry form from the Library - there are prizes to be won!


The World Book Day £1 tokens have also been distributed to students and these can be exchanged for one of the free World Book Day books, or put towards the purchase of any book costing £2.99, or more in participating shops.

You can use your voucher in any participating books shop until Sunday, 29th March 2020.

We are also looking for some brilliant book reviews to post on the Library Blog - ask one of your Librarians for a template.  Don’t forget our regular Word of the Week competition too!

Happy reading!