LRC Lockdown Book Review Competition

Book Review Competition 

We are running a Book Review competition to see what PRC & UCP students have been reading during Lockdown. The prize for the best review, as judged by the LRC team, is a £10 Waterstones voucher; runners up will receive a book & book bag.

To enter students should email the LRC: lrc@peterborough.ac.uk with their book review, which can be written, drawn, photographed or videoed. Last date for entries is 31st May.

What have you been reading during Lockdown?

Tips for writing book reviews:

Writing a book review for the first time can be rather a daunting task. Try to imagine whilst you are writing that you are talking to a friend, who is asking you whether or not they should read the book.

Booktrust, UK based Reading Charity, asked Author Luisa Plaja, to share her top tips on how to review a book. 

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/tips-and-advice/writing-tips/writing-tips-for-teens/how-to-write-a-book-review/

Whilst Book Riot, an independent editorial book site in America, recommended 6 steps to writing a book review.

https://bookriot.com/2019/02/14/how-to-write-a-book-review/

To enter the LRC Lockdown Book Review competition, we are happy for you to choose how you would like to review your book. If a written book review is not for you, how about:

Creating a piece of art inspired by the book that you have read, illustrating how the book made you feel.

Sending in a photo review, using props or your family members to act out the plot and to show your favourite scenes.

Or you might like to send in a video of your review.

Ultimately however you decide to review your book, we are looking forward to receiving your entries and seeing which books you have been reading.

December celebrations in the LRC

December celebrations in the LRC

This month in the LRC we are celebrating the season with colourful displays and competitions.

‘Twas the Night before Christmas’

The poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ is our overall display theme. Through different displays we have depicted parts of the poem, including a Christmas tree, fireplace decorated up for Christmas, children sleeping in their beds and a winter scene. We chose the poem as it is probably one of the most well-known of the Christmas verses.

Alongside the display we are running a competition asking students who wrote ‘Twas the night before Christmas’?

LRC Christmas Tree

Find the Reindeer Competition

We have hidden 8 of Father Christmas’s Reindeers, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen around the LRC, our second competition is for students to discover where the reindeers are located.

Gift for Christmas

Would you like to give a student the gift of a book this Christmas?

If you have a book at home which you have read and would like to donate to another student. Please bring it into the LRC for us to wrap up and place under the LRC Christmas tree.

LRC Loyalty Card

I hope that you have been enjoying reading books from the LRC this term. Students who return a book as a part of the LRC Loyalty Card Scheme in December will receive a small gift.

Have you renewed your books?

Please remember to renew your library books before the Christmas holidays.

Happy Christmas from the Learning Resource Centre