Library Week

         Congratulations to the winners!
                               Library Week Competitions

   *  "Risk it for a biscuit": Thanks to everyone who entered this competition - we had a lot of great entries.  Congratulations to the following people earned some house points: Emma 7FN, Selina 7CS, Hamish 7 CS, Lisa Marie 7 SE, Brydon 7SE, Chloe 7SE,

Kieran 8AB, Nicole 8AB, Brad 8AB, William 8AB, Keiran 9KS,

Bhodi 10 PG, Harry 10 PG, Zoe 13 NF.

*  Winning Entry for "Review on the Blog Competition"

Congratulations to Preston from Year 9 who won an autographed copy of Brian Faulkner's 'Brain Jack'.

 ONE SMALL SUITCASE by Barry Turner 

This book is the true account of how 10,000 refugee children escaped the Nazi holocaust.
The author, Barry turner, has a PhD in political history and has been a passionate writer on political issues over the past 30 years. With this background I believe he was the best person to have written this book.
Barry Turner gained a unique insight into the lives, hopes and dreams of these displaced children through their own individual experiences and accounts.

After WW1, Germany was a broken nation and the countries saviour came in the form of Adolf Hitler. One of the favoured themes of Hitler’s government was to blame someone else for all trials and tribulations, other than themselves of course. Most of the time the Jewish community was caught in the Nazi crossfire, this became better known as anti-Semitism.

With anti-Semitism running rife, Britain saw the need for Jewish children to find a safe haven and promoted the transportation of the at risk. The theory of Kindertransport was now a reality. Taking children of all ages and placing them under their protective wing.

Upon arrival, some refugees already had foster parents waiting but others were sent to special refugee camps. Children stated that it was best to be in a camp with other children who were experiencing the same situation, than to be sent to a foster family, not knowing what to expect. However, where some found sanctuary, others found hardship and separation from family and friends unbearable. As quoted in the book ‘The greatest sadness was the children who felt unwanted’.

Please don’t think this is just another war saga, these pages are filled with many human interest stories. The book goes on to share the success stories of some of the contributors to this book.

This book is heart warming but sometimes distressed me. This is the kind of story that reminds us that man can be so cruel, but that out of something bad there can come some good.
                                                                                                                                          Preston Year 9