The Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal is a prize awarded every year to an author of a brilliantly written book for young people, and the shadowing scheme, run by many schools, is a fantastic opportunity for you to comment on the titles that are short listed for the prize before the winner of the award is announced in June.

The titles on the short list this year are:

Gatty’s tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Ruby Red by Linzi Glass

Crusade by Elizabeth Laird

Apache by Tanya Landman

Here lies Arthur by Philip Reeve

What I was by Meg Rosoff

Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine

If you are blind or partially sighted and want to take part in the shadowing by reading the books and reviewing them, and you want to borrow the titles in braille, giant print or daisy talking book, then contact Liz Farrell, Children’s Librarian at RNIB National Library Service ASAP. Please note that stocks are limited and you may not receive all titles together at once, but we will do our best to accommodate you!

For further details, contact Liz:

Tel: 0161 355 2061

Email: liz.farrell@rnib.org.uk

Stars Welcome VIP’s 

Summertown Stars AFC is an Oxford based children’s football club that was established in 1974. The club has over 350 registered players and runs boys and girls teams for ages from under 7 through to under 16. The club is an FA Charter Standard Development club and won the county club award in 2005/6. This accreditation is only given to clubs that abide by the high standards set by the FA. All team coaches have a minimum qualification of FA Level 1 coaching certificates and all coaches and helpers have been CRB checked. In recent years, the club has successfully established links with the Greenhouse charity, which runs sports, including football, for inner-city communities. Teams from Greenhouse Bethwin in Peckham, London, have played several matches against Summertown Stars teams, and a player from Greenhouse has played as a Summertown guest player, at the Stars expense, in a tournament in Holland. This exchange programme has encouraged the club to forge other charitable and community links. Summertown Stars now send football kit to a Township school in South Africa. Lwandle Primary school is in Cape Town, and its 700 pupils come from particularly poor backgrounds, with most of the children’s parents either unemployed or low wage earners. Closer to home, Summertown Stars have successfully raised over £1,300 for the Oxford Children’s Hospital through football events. These include persuading Barclays Bank to bring the Barclays Premiership trophy to the clubs annual 5 a-side football tournament in June 2007 and more recently, holding a sponsored fancy dress football match. Summertown Stars has now embarked on its most ambitious project – setting up a team for visually impaired players (VIP’s). Jo Kalies, a sports coach with a local private school, and manager of the girls under 13 team, is the clubs disability officer. Jo has been working with the Oxfordshire Football Association, and British Blind Sport, and has successfully put together a small group of visually impaired players. VIP’s play futsal, an indoor 5 a -side game of football, originally started in Uruguay in the 1920’s. Futsal is a fast and skilful game that has successfully been adopted by VIP’s, with the Great Britain B1 category team currently ranked 5^th in the world. Training sessions are held every 3 to 4 weeks, and are run by Jo along with other Stars coaches. If you are visually impaired and are interested in taking part in these fun  sessions, then please contact Jo Kalies on 07867 646503 or Paul Chamberlain on 07813 591586. Club web-site: http://www.summertownstars.org.uk/ 

The National Archives is an amazing place in London where millions of historical records going back hundreds of years are kept.

The OutLOOK team have been working with RNIB New College Worcester on a project aimed at improving accessibility to the archives and making the young making more aware of what it contains.

for more information go to: The National Archives-Prisoner 4099.

Monday 5th May (Bank Holiday Monday)

New College Worcester is a residential college for students aged 11-19 who are blind or partially sighted. They are having a Family Day for anyone who wants to find out more about the college.

Free Fun for the whole family

Come and join us for a fun and exciting day with a range of activities for all ages. Parents, children, grandparents and brothers & sisters are all welcome!

• Rifle Shooting
• Drumming Workshop
• Climbing Wall
• Art Activities
• Bouncy Castle
• Football Workshop
• Tour of College
• Theatre Workshop

This event is free of charge and open to any family who has a child with a visual impairment.

When & Where Is It?

The Family Day is held at New College Worcester. The day begins at 10:00am for registration and finishes at 3:30pm.

How do I register?

Go to www.newcollegeworcester.co.uk and fill in the booking form or call 01905 763933