CRANLEIGH PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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By the pupils. For the Community. LENT TERM 2015
Get inspired, read a book By Alessandra J, 5B Cranleigh Prep’s School’s celebration of World Book Day is always a highlight of the school calendar and this year was no exception. Learning about “books to inspire me” was the theme of this year’s event and inspired we were! This year we were lucky enough to have TWO authors come to speak to us. Andy Mulligan, author of Trash and ‘Author in Residence’ at Cranleigh School, inspired us with his fabulous book about a dumpsite boy and made us all dream of writing a Hollywood blockbuster, as the movie based on the book is sure to be. Paul Geraghty, author of 20 picture books, inspired us with his amazingly funny stories and beautiful illustrations. How many of us can remember the name of the snake, whose surname was Johnson? As is an annual tradition at CPS, Mrs Fenton prepared a quiz for each form on World Book Day. This was based on the pupils’ knowledge of books and their characters, proving tricky for even the keenest of bookworms. Mrs Fenton explained, “The point of this quiz was to prove that the movies were made from the book, not the other way round.” Not willing to be outdone by Andy Mulligan’s talk of the “big screen,” the staff at school joined in with the day, starring in a video of their own. In the film, they read bits from books that inspire them and told us why. Motivated by all the talk about books, pupils then all got started writing our own future best seller. Who knows? Maybe the next Harry Potter?
Abc - Spelling Bee! By Ambrose W, 5F On Monday the 9 of March, during World Book Day, the First CPS Spelling Bee took place in the Wyatt Hall. Confident spellers in Forms One to Five took part in a three-round competition, with overall points adding to the house points total at the end of the term. th
In the first round, each of the competitors had 30 seconds to answer as many ‘Red words’ as possible. Lara S, in Form 2, said she “enjoyed the Spelling Bee and particularly loved the red word test,” which she said was easy. The second-round was built up of a ‘Where did this word originate from?’ The purpose of this round was to work out which language a particular word was from. We learned, for example, that the word caffeine has German origins from ‘kaffee’ meaning coffee, as well as a French link with ‘caféine.’ This round proved to be the most difficult, as there were many obscure answers. The third and final round involved random words being called out and each house representative in their year group would have to spell the word out loud. Well done to everyone who took part and congratulations to the ‘Spades Spellers’ who won the competition.