Events
Drama Workshops
Hannah Grant and Mary Fauset from Drama4Learning (E-Mail drama4learning(аt)yahoo.co.uk) ran workshops in many of the primary and secondary schools in the summer term.
Here they brought the books to life by reading extracts and engaging the students in a range of drama techniques - freeze-frame, mime, improvisation, body-sculpturing etc. - all focussing on the books. During last year's book award, students in three year 7 groups at the City of London Academy all borrowed copies of the books they had worked on after a 2 hour drama workshop in the library.
Final Events
Final events were held in the week beginning 29th June 2009.
There were prizes for Keenest Readers and Best Review, a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"-style quiz with teams from each school, visiting authors, storytellers, video clips and interviews with pupils in all the schools, presentations from each school, certificates and refreshments!
Voting
Each participating school ran its own vote for their favourite book and these were then forwarded to the Award co-ordinator. Announcements for the winning book were made at the Final events held by each group of schools in the week beginning 29th June 2009.
Another way to have your say
