Mrs M's Reading Blog

Thanks to your children and the role of the school councillors, we now have some top quality feedback about the books children would love to see more of in our library, including author names & genres for fiction books; specific topics of interest for non-fiction, and other useful suggestions for…

Anti-Bullying Week 2023 - front-facing, beautiful books on friendships, bullying & recognising emotions.

Really proud of our children, who – despite the excitement of being able to dress up for Halloween in school – really focussed hard on their descriptive reading & writing lessons liked to all things spooktacular.

There was also an opportunity for us to read the classic book, ‘FunnyBones’…

Our new topic boxes in the Hall will prove an ideal location to celebrate, entice and signpost our young readers to any literature (both fiction & non-fiction) with front-facing gorgeous books linked to school events & themes; like Halloween, for example – spooktacular!

Dressed in yellow, or as near to – Dahl’s favourite colour!  Facts, extracts and fond memories linked to the books; shared and rejoiced in assembly.

Time in our new Houses to forge early, key relationships across school and of course, hone our Roald Dahl writing skills.

Happy Birthday, Roald…

Our fifth and final Core Value Reading Legend of the year was Responsible Reading Legend.

But what does responsibility around reading actually look like?  We considered:

• Respect for our library and for others’ reading time
• The proper way to stock books e.g. spines out, by…

Book Club have been inundated with entries for their Book Club Logo Competition – and this isn’t all of them!  Thank you to all the children who have submitted entries.  It goes to show, just how much our children love books and are inspired by reading.  The winning entry will feature in multiple…

Healthy Week 2023: Healthy Lifestyles involve Reading! Resilient Reading Legend

We delivered our penultimate (fourth of five) Core Value Reading Legends in school – with a focus on resilience around reading: children being taught and practising stamina for reading, including heightening their…

And another fabulous reading moment from a pupil in Thistle Class...

Sophie has loved reading Wild Homes and is even relating the information in the book, to her own stories connected to nature. 

"It's genuinely made Aurelia a super reader. I couldn't be prouder" (Mum)

It's always fantastic to hear from parents and carers about their child's home reading journey.

Aurelia, in Dahlia Class, has managed to read a total of 6 books (each with 300-350 pages) within 6 weeks!

Further…

 Allergic, by Megan Lloyd – reviewed by Maya H. 

“This graphic novel is just my type of book! The characters are brilliant and they really make you want to carry on reading.”  

Investi-GATORS, by John Green – reviewed by Harry. 

“If you like crocodiles, you’ll love this adventure story…