The Winner of the Tower Hamlets Book Award 2011 is...
...Joe Layburn, for Street Heroes, who narrowly beat Ros Asquith (Letters from an Alien Schoolboy) and Pete Johnson (Vampire Blog) to claim the prize. Joe, present at the finale held at the Whitechapel Idea Store, told pupils present how delighted he was to have won the award in the borough that his book, dealing with the battle of Cable Street, is set.
Over 150 pupils and staff from 14 schools attended the event on 25th November. 9 Schools took part in the annual presentation competition in which groups of pupils champion one of the shortlisted books. This year the presentations were the best yet with live acting and video.
Guest Judges this year were Joe Layburn and Ros Asquith (who were also kept bust signing books and talking to the children), Anne Canning - Head of Learning and Achievement at Tower Hamlets, Jo Humphreys-Davis from Walker Books, and Andrea Reece from Picadilly Press who very kindly gave their time (and had great fun in the process).
The winning presentation (after much deliberation) was Globe School's performance of Letters from an Alien Schoolboy.
Joe Layburn accepts his award
The panel : Anne Canning, Andrea Reece, Ros Asquith, Jo Humphreys-Davis and Joe Layburn
Congratualtions to all schools who took part in the competition and thank you to all of you who attended:
- Bangabandhu
- Blue Gate Fields Jnr
- Cayley
- Cyril Jackson
- Globe
- Hague
- Lansbury Lawrence
- Manorfield
- Old Palace
- Osmani
- St Pauls Whitechapel
- Swanlea
- Thomas Buxton
- William Davis
Postcard competition winners
Pupils were also invited to take part in an art competition to design publicity for the 2012 Book Award Longlist. The 4 winners, taking home £10 book tokens, were:
Hafiza Alim (Lansbury Lawrence)
Anisha Begum Rahim (Old Palace School)
Shania Riley (Globe School)
Naima Begum (Hague School)
The winning work will be displayed here soon,
Schools taking part in the Book Award this year were :
- Arnhem Wharf
- Bangabandhu
- Blue Gate Fields Jnr
- Cayley
- Central Foundation Girls School
- Chisenhale
- Clara Grant
- Columbia
- Culloden
- Cyril Jackson
- George Greens
- Globe
- Guardian Angels
- Hague
- Lansbury Lawrence
- Manorfield
- Oaklands
- Old Ford primary
- Old Palace
- Osmani
- Our Lady
- Seven Mills
- Smithy St
- St Lukes
- St Pauls Whitechapel
- Stebon
- Stepney Green
- Swanlea
- Thomas Buxton
- William Davis
We hope to see you all again next year!
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