I-Spy Competition

To celebrate books and reading on World Book Day - April 23rd - the library is holding another competition.


Members of KEGS Staff have been caught on camera reading a book that they loved when they were in their early teens (for some of us that was a very long time ago).  The photos will be on display near their teaching/work area around the school.


All you have to do to win a prize is spot and identify as many you can and hand a list to Mrs Gray in the Library by the end of Friday 27th April.


Coincidentally two staff members have chosen a book by the best-known authors who were born and died on 23rd April.


As you may not know all the staff by name we've helped to identify both them and the book they are reading on the photo.

Kids' Lit Quiz

I am currently testing our Year 8s to find out who is going to represent KEGS in the Regional round of the Kids' Lit Quiz which will be taking place on Tuesday 15th November. I'm hoping to take two teams this year, and I'm sure everyone will wish them the best of luck.
KLQ website

36582: the journal of a deportee, by Maurice Cordonnier.

Maurice Cordonnier worked for the French Railways, well placed for his other work as a French Resistance saboteur. In April 1944 he was denounced to the Germans and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp. By some miracle he survived, seeing many of his friends die, and wrote this account of his experiences shortly after his repatriation. This new translation of his book was published this month.

If anyone would like a copy of the book, which sells at £9.99, they can contact me in the library library@kegs.org.uk, or Mrs Hampson in the French department, who is the daughter of Monsieur Cordonnier.

Year 7 Champion Readers

Apologies to the many readers who read their own books or borrow from the Public Library - to select the best readers of the year so far I have simply looked at the library records of borrowing.

The champion readers (so far) are:

7H      Akshayan
7M     David
7S      Anurag
7T      Anderson

Can it be a coincidence that three of them have names beginning with A?  At the end of the year I'll be looking for the Champion of Champions, but this could already be decided - one of the above has already read more than twice Mr Gove's 50 books a year!

Jameel of 7H also deserves a special mention - if he'd been in another form he would also have been a winner, and has also read more than 50 books so far this year.

KEGS' Lit Quiz - Year 7 round

And the winners are .....

7S

Scores were:

7S                 55 points
7T                 52.5 points
7H                 43 points
7M                 32.5 points

Days We'll Remember All Our Lives, by Steve Little

The Library now has copies of Steve Little's new book for sale. If you want to know what life at KEGS was like in the 1960s you need a copy of this book.
Contact Mrs Gray at library@kegs.org.uk for further details.

"More Than Just a Life", by Steve Little

Former KEGS student Steve Little has published a book "More Than Just a Life" which is on sale with Amazon for £14.99. He has generously donated a copy to the Library. The story is set in World War 1 and tells of a shell-shocked soldier arrested and court-martialled for desertion.