Challenges

There are many ways to prove a challenge has been completed. Whilst we love a good old book review, we welcome an array of creative responses too.

We will accept: written reviews, photos, audio or visual recordings, and creative responses to the book read. Just bring it into the Library or email it to librarian@pgs.org.uk

Ideas for creative responses:

- art work

- dressing up/acting out scenes

- designing a new book cover

- create a comic strip of your favourite scene

- fan cast the movie version of the book & make a poster

Creativity will make your tree flourish.

Year Round - "Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees" - C. Rossetti 🌿

Any reviews written on the School Library Catalogue will earn your tree a classic green leaf.
Remember to include: who you read the book with, what was good or not so good about it, what type of reader would like it, and most importantly NO SPOILERS!

Spring 1 - "The darling buds of May" - W. Shakespeare 🌷

In the spirit of spring, the first challenge is about nurturing young new readers.
Pupils will need to evidence themselves reading with, or to, a younger child to earn a spring blossom for their tree.

If you don’t currently have a little person in your life, please contact Ms Hart to discuss volunteering as a reading mentor with younger pupils.

Videos of dramatic reading aloud would be a great way to complete this challenge – maybe even try it with puppets!

Spring 2 - "Deep roots are not reached by the frost." -J. R. R. Tolkien

Summer 1 - "Give me juicy fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." - W. Whitman 🍎

Summer 2 - ""Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." - E. Bronte 🍁

Summer Holidays 1 - "Bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”
- C. A. Duffy 🐝

Summer Holidays 2 - “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 🪷

Finale - “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." ― Gibran🌲

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