As part of our values education project, the second value for this term, which was launched on Monday 13 October 2014, is ‘Courage’. Some examples of behaviours that demonstrate this value are:

- willingness to have a go

- demonstrating an inner confidence about self and what is important 

- having confidence to do something challenging 

- facing a fear or phobia

- not being afraid to make mistakes, and seeing mistakes as a way of learning

- showing resilience - bouncing back after making a mistake

- standing firm by one’s own faith, beliefs or courage of conviction

- choosing to stand up for others, even if it makes you unpopular

- being able to make up your own mind and not be swayed by pressure from others/ peer-pressure

- refusing to be involved in bullying 

Please could you discuss ‘Courage’ with children at home, and explore ways to reinforce it. Each week 
we will give special certificates to those children who demonstrate good values, and these will be 
displayed in the office reception area. Please feel free to come and look at them!

Author Matt Brown (Usborne Books), who has just released the book 'Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe', visited Stanley Primary School on Friday 3 October 2014. Matt shared extracts from his Compton Valance books with Years 3-6, and did a book signing after school which was very well attended and resulted in queues out of the gym door!

Author Jon Scieszka is doing a UK tour to publicise his book 'Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor', and he will be meeting Years 3-6 on Wednesday 8 October 2014. He has written a number of books including 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs' and 'The Stinky Cheese Man.' An article was written about him in the Daily Telegraph Magazine on 6 September 2014- please follow the link below to read this: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11077931/Jon-Scieskas-Frank-Einstein-series-and-how-hes-getting-boys-to-read.html

Author Tony Mitton will be coming to visit Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in January 2015. Tony has written and illustrated a number of very well known and loved children’s books including 'Spookyrumpus', 'All Afloat on Noah's Boat', 'Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus!' and a series of books about amazing machines. He has also recently won a CLPE award for his poem 'Wayland'.

Our aim is to keep children reading, loving the books they are reading and then talking about them!