The Literacy Club help choose the UK’s top science book for young people
We have won second prize nationally for our video submission as a judging panel for the Royal Society!
Our judging panel carefully reviewed and discuss the books - and agreed on their overall winner in January!
For more details on the amazing books in this year's shortlist (I have read them all and am very excited - there are some amazing, thoughtful books on the list) see here
Our Youtube video recording the final decision, can be seen here
If you enjoyed the video (especially the bloopers at the end!) please do give us a 'like'!
The award ceremony can be seen here
1st place, winning £500 in book tokens: Grimley and Holt Primary School
2nd place, winning £250 in book tokens: The Literacy Club
3rd place, winning £100 each in book tokens: Royal Grammar School Newcastle AND Huncote Primary School
We took part in the 2019 judging panel for the Royal Society!
The children really enjoyed carefully reviewing and judging the books.
These books are all now available to borrow from the Literacy Club library.
The book selected as the winner by the judging panel was:
Planetarium by Raman Prinja and Christ Wormell
The panel have submitted their decision - and their thoughtful comments on all six books - to the Royal Society !
We took part in the 2015 judging panel for the Royal Society!
The children really enjoyed carefully reviewing and judging the books.
These books are all now available to borrow from the Literacy Club library.
The book selected as the winner by the judging panel was:
365 Science Activities published by Usborne.
The panel have submitted their decision - and their thoughtful comments on all six books - to the Royal Society !
2012 Message from the Royal Society:
Dear judging panel,
Thank you for all your work in selecting your winner.
After much collation, the overall prize winner has now been decided, and was announced at a ceremony here at the Royal Society.
The winner of the 2012 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize is Science Experiments by Robert Winston and Ian Graham (published by Dorling Kindersley).
14 children from The Literacy Club helped to choose the winner of this year’s Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for science writing. The winning book was actually the same book chosen and voted for by our pupils!
We were one of 75 schools and clubs chosen to become one of the judging panels - and the only one from across Birmingham and Solihull.
The winning book was picked from a shortlist chosen with the help of an expert adult panel of educationalists and scientists.
The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize celebrates the very best in science writing for children
and young adults and previous winners have included the How the world works by Christiane Dorion
and Beverley Young (2011), Can you feel the force? by Richard Hammond (2007), the Eden Project’s
book, The Global Garden by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels and Corina Fletcher (2006), What Makes Me,
Me? by Robert Winston (2005) and Really Rotten Experiments by Nick Arnold & Tony De Saulles
(2004).
The Prize is worth £10,000 to the winning author and £1,000 to the author of each shortlisted title.
The winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize will be announced towards the end of the
year.
The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize did not take place in 2008 - 2010 due to funding issues but
has been re-established in 2012 thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor.
The six books read and shortlisted by the Year 5 judging panel are:
· How the Weather Works by Christiane Dorion
· Out of this World: All the Cool Bits about Space by Clive Gifford
· Plagues Pox And Pestilence by Richard Platt
· Science Experiments by Robert Winston
· See Inside: Inventions by Alex Frith
· The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean
These books are now available to all Literacy Club children to borrow, as part of our usual borrowing library.
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society’s strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven
research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society.