Blog by Tag: Reading

Today, along with children from some other local schools, Year 6 went to Ripley to meet the famous children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. We learnt how she began writing in primary school and had her first story published in a magazine at the age of 17. Her first book was published when she was 26…

Congratulations to all the children who achieved their BLACK Karate reading band this year which meant that they had at least 250 signed reads in their reading record.  58 children in total across the school achieved this!  Well done to you all.  We celebrated this together by having a book trail…

On World Book Day, year 3 came to read to us. We really enjoyed having an older friend to read any book we chose. The children got on so well that we have invited them back.

Year 6 had a busy day today focussing on books and reading. We began the day looking at our various costumes before working on the book picture quiz around school. After that we joined Year 2 to share our favourite books with them. In the afternoon we combined reading with PE when we completed our…

What an exciting World Book Day we have had! Our costumes were amazing. Can you recognise any characters from the class photo? We started the day hearing all about the first books and when they were published. We then designed a footprint showing our favourite books to display in school to lead…

We have had a brilliant World Book Day. We have read loads and had fun!
 

Year 6 have been busy reading over the summer holidays. Today we wrote reviews, which are now on display in the library for everyone to read. 

Across school today, each year group has enjoyed exploring their learning through Drew Daywalt's wonderful story: The Day the Crayons Quit!

In Year 2, we explored synonyms for the names of the colours, and created colour thesauruses on the computer using the application 'Paint'. We started off…

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Today across school, the children have been celebrating World Book Day by sharing Drew Daywalt's wonderful story- The Day the Crayons Quit.

In Year 6, we wrote letters back to the crayons persuading them to return to us by telling them how much we loved each colour and by…