This year‟s World Book Day celebrations

in the Library and Learning Centres built

upon the success of last year to hold an

even more fantastic event. This year‟s

theme was food – something close to

everybody‟s heart.

World Book Day is the biggest annual

celebration of books and reading in the

UK and to nurture a love of reading at a

young age. The book chosen this year

was the story of The Very Hungry

Caterpillar.

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to:

The Principal, Peter Ryder, for taking time out of his busy schedule to read and engage with the children of the crèche. The Crèche for hosting the reading and healthy eating event.

The Fashion Department namely Tutor, Louise Hawson and Technician, Veronica Dinsdale who worked swiftly on designing and making The Very Hungry Caterpillar‟s

costume.

Tracey Holt’s Hair and Beauty Students

who plied their trade to transform Library Staff into fictional characters from the book

Alice in Wonderland.

The College Bakery Department, who baked buns and decorated 2 cakes for the occasion in Library and Learning Centres at both sites.

Rehaan Rather, David Howes from Marketing who marketed the event via

Student Zone and the local press.

Dovestones students and tutors for Mad

Hat entries - see page 8

Emma Fielding for all her help on the day

The Refectory Staff at Hyde Clarendon, for

their support

When we all work together we can

deliver!

Tameside College

March 2011 Library & Learning Services

Special Edition Newsletter

Inside this issue:

Success grows

on last year

Quick Reads

The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

The Mad Hatter’s

Tea Party

Mad Hats

Competition

Winners

World Book Night

World Book Day Cake

Principal Peter Ryder with children from the

crèche and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, aka

Angela Duxbury, Library Assistant, Beaufort Road

Quick Reads Impact Evaluation March 2010:

Literacy tutors teaching over 32,000 adult literacy

students nationwide feedback that:

90% saw changes in learners‟ attitudes to reading

since using Quick Reads

96% said their learners went on to read other

books

„Several of my learners had never read a book before

in their lives. They are now regular readers.‟

„They are the most popular books I have ever used.‟

„One woman has really blossomed . . . I honestly

believe that Quick Reads helped to unlock the door to

her cell.‟

„Quick Reads serve as the bridge between being faced

with a brick wall and a wide open landscape to

explore.‟

PLR (Public Lending Right) figures show that over a million Quick Reads have already been loaned by libraries

In its first five years, Quick Reads has

reached hundreds of thousands of people

who have lost or never had the reading

habit, transforming patterns of reading

amongst the most hard-to-reach sector of

our population and helping to change

lives.

Impact evaluations have demonstrated a

clear pattern of reader progression.

Adults who discover reading with Quick

Reads go on to read other books in the

series, then other books by Quick Reads

authors and then other books entirely.

These adults often then become very

passionate readers, in search of serious

literature. They say how amazed they are

by the strength of emotion books can

engender and that books have helped

transform their sense of well-being and

joy in life.

New readers

35% of new readers had not read a book

since school, but since using Quick

Reads:

90% now enjoy reading

48% now read to relax twice a week or

more frequently

Quick Reads provided extraordinary

benefits to new readers‟ confidence,

self-esteem and home, family and

working lives.

Benefits new readers recorded

included improved memory skills, the

ability to help children with their

learning and feeling more motivated.

Information taken from World Bookday website

Each Library and Learning Centre displays a range of

books to help with dyslexia as

well as plenty of Quick Reads

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's book written by Eric Carle, first published by the World

Publishing Company in 1969. The winner of many awards, it has sold 30 million copies and reportedly a copy of the book is sold every 30 seconds somewhere in the world. It is highly popular and has been praised for its use of easy-to-read words

which makes it good for teaching young children to read. The book contains 225 words and large, colourful illustrations. It follows a caterpillar as it eats its way through a wide variety of foodstuffs before he finally pupates and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. The story teaches counting to

five, the names of the days of the week, and about different types of food. The caterpillar's diet is a fictional fantasy but the story does introduce the concept of the metamorphosis from egg to

caterpillar to butterfly. It has been described as “one of the greatest childhood classics of all time”.

Taken from Wikipedia

Tameside and Hyde Clarendon College World Book Day celebrations were inspired by two books this year. The day started with the Principal Peter Ryder

reading the forever popular „The Very Hungry Caterpillar‟ by Eric Carle to children in the college‟s crèche. The children were encouraged to wear something green for the event. The Principal was

accompanied by the library‟s very own hungry caterpillar, Angela Duxbury, Learning Centre Assistant who was suited out by the College‟s Fashion Department. Louise Hawson sketched some rough ideas and looked at the book illustration of the hungry caterpillar. Veronica sourced some great

fabric for the costume and then raided the stock room for trims to decorate. Veronica was able to sew the skin of the design together and added bits and pieces as it grew to make it more „caterpillary‟! The polystyrene balls attached to pipe cleaners were used

for the antennae. Very impressive stuff coming out of our fashion department here at Tameside College we

think you‟d agree. The children then ate a range of healthy snacks, just as the caterpillar does and later were presented with their own copy of the book (and caterpillar finger puppet!) to enjoy at home. This encapsulated the main aim of World Book Day by providing children with a book of their own while encouraging the

pleasure of reading at a young age.

Principal Peter Ryder with children from the

Crèche and a very hungry caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Library staff dressed up as characters from

the book Alice in Wonderland and their

hair and make up was expertly done by

students from the Hair and Beauty

Department of the College.

Hyde Clarendon Staff dress up as characters

from Alice in Wonderland

Ashton Centre Staff getting made up as characters from Alice in Wonderland

Even the police joined in at Hyde Clarendon and no

arrests were made even for crimes against fashion!

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Library Staff and Ben Lomax, a Future Jobs

Fund employee, worked hard to create a wonderland, making posters to advertise the

event, roses to decorate the tables and walls

and homemade cup cakes to be eaten.

Hair & Beauty students, Chloe Parsons, Jade

Pearson, Lauren Franchetti & Danielle McNamara having plied their trade, take a

photo call with Principal Peter Ryder & the Library staff they had transformed – a job

well done we think you’ll all agree!

After the small kids were given their

books, library staff across the college‟s

two sites got the chance to act like big

kids. Inspired by Alice and her strange

adventures the libraries were set up for

their first Mad Hatter‟s Tea Party. There

was of course no actual tea at the tea

party, that would be too sane, but there

was plenty of “eat me” cakes and “drink

me bottles” to change the size of the

guests.

The table is set with all manner of cakes, biscuits, sweets and drinks

Alice aka Caroline Axon, LLPS Manager, cuts the

cake and declares the Tea Party open!

A card display amongst the treats to be had

“Drink Me” bottles to change the size of the guests

The White Rabbit ran round college with the invite on her back

Staff at Ashton Centre as Alice in Wonderland Characters

Jolene Cushion, with Hair & Beauty Students, as the

Red Queen and whose idea it had all started from

Group photo call with one of the playing cards who

kept the library running despite the “Madness”

IT Support, Julia Crosland as the White Rabbit

LLPS Manager Caroline Axon as Alice,

complete with “hoopy” tights

Adrian Davies, Librarian, as the

“Mad Hatter”

The Red Queen was miffed when she

found out there was no pig on which to rest her royal trotters!

More pictures from the day

IT Support Officer Tracy “rabbiting on”

The party at Ashton in full swing

Library Assistant Helen Evans as the

Red Queen - but is she being led away

for having killer eyelashes?

Librarian Anne Pickersgill as

Clarendon’s host, The Mad Hatter

The party at Hyde Clarendon in full swing

Clarendon’s Alice, Library Assistant

Lorraine Richardson, checking the table is

fully laden

The Clarendon “Girls” having fun

Competition Results

The Mad Hat Competition

Students from Dovestones, Tameside College‟s centre for students with severe and

profound learning difficulties, were encouraged to enter the Mad Hat competition. All

entries were fantastic and were really enjoyed by the guests who had the opportunity

to vote for their favourite.

A big THANK YOU to Dovestones students for all the creative and hard

work they put into their designs and for joining in our celebration of World Book Day.

Shaun busy making then proudly

wearing his hat -well done Shaun!

Nicola making her hat and Hannah showing hers

off – excellent work both of you! Michael and Danny hard at work on their hats,

with brilliant results – superb stuff you guys!

Why not have a go yourself? (Answers on the back page)

1. Who created the illustrations for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson‟s (is this his real name?) books about a girl who

fell down a rabbit hole and vanished through a mirror?

2. Which Alice, known as the Witch of Kilkenny, was one of the first to be formally tried by the Irish Catholic

Church for Sorcery

3. Who wrote “A Town called Alice”?

4. Who was twice winner of the Vardon Golf Trophy between 1954 and 1969

5. For how many years have Smokie been” living next door to Alice “

6. Name the famous daughter-in-law of Princess Alice of Battenberg

7. Where might you meet Alice Tinker?

8. Which 1990s teen movie, loosely based on Jane Austen‟s Emma, starred Alicia Silverstone?

9. What is the Scrabble score for A.L.I.C.E.

10. Who famously accompanied Alice to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guards

11. In what year did Alice Marble win the Wimbledon Women‟s Tennis Championship

12. Whose recording “Jar of Flies” It is the first EP to be ranked number one on the Billboard 200 Chart

13. Who performed the Cruciatus curse which sent Neville‟s mother – Alice Longbottom - insane? –

14. Which bibliophiles might belong to ALISS?

15. Alice Krige acts the part of a very evil queen – in what series of films?

16. Which two words beginning with R . . . and V. . . . . . link the singer of “Who the f*** is Alice” to a Local

Shop for Local People?

17. Which is the author and title of the famous book (and film) in which the main character is a dead teenage

girl observing her family and murderer.

18. Martin Scorsese directed this 1974 film about a recent widow trying to make a new life for herself as a

singer

World Book Day Quiz

An exceptionally hard „Alice‟ based quiz was delivered through Student Zone leading up

to the event. Three students; Ellesse Oakes, Jade Molloy and Gloria Taiwo answered all

the questions correctly. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner, picked from a

“mad” hat, and Ellesse walked away with a brand new iPod Shuffle. Jade and Gloria both

received runner up prizes of £5 National Book Tokens. Congratulations to all.

Winner of the

iPod Shuffle -

Ellesse Oakes Runner up -

Gloria Taiwo

Answers to Alice based quiz

1. John Tenniel

2. Dame Alice Kyteler

3. Nevil Shute

4. Peter Alliss

5. Twenty four years

6. Queen Elizabeth 2

7. Dibley

8. Clueless

9. 7

10. Christopher Robin

11. 1939

12. Alice in Chains

13. Bellatrix Lestrange

14. Librarian and Information professionals in the Social

Sciences

15. Star Trek

16. Royston Vasey (real name of Roy “Chubby” Brown and

village in League of Gentlemen)

17. Alice Sebold (Lovely Bones)

18. Alice doesn’t live here anymore

World Book Night

Tameside College library opened on Saturday 5th March to join in the inaugural one million

book give-away, World Book Night.

The book give-away comprised of 40,000 copies of each of the 25 carefully selected titles

www.worldbooknight.org which were to be passed on by 20,000 „givers‟.

Three members of College staff were „givers‟ and we also received copies from two

members of the public who had heard about our event. Thank you to Maria Cacia for

promoting the event to her evening students.

The books we had available were The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparke, A fine

Balance by Rohinton Mistry and A life Like Other People‟s by Alan Bennett.

26 people called in to take a free book and some brought their favourite book in to swap.

Students and staff were then able to call in on Monday 7th to take away their copy.

The books were given a unique number so they could be registered online and „givers‟ can

then track the book‟s journey.

Recycling took place after the World Book

Day event when Jackie Bicknell of a local

Tameside School gathered together the

props and reused them in a production of

Alice in Wonderland at the school.

The posters that were displayed around

the library with quotes from the book are

to decorate the school‟s drama department walls.