As you may have noticed, we are slightly obsessed with teaching every child the invaluable skill of reading. In line with our commitment to fostering strong reading skills, we would like to invite you to a special event focused on sharing our top tips for listening to your child read at home.
During this session, we will collect your child from class, as we delve into effective strategies that we have found to be successful. Together, we will explore what works best when it comes to supporting your child’s reading progress.
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: Tuesday, 20th June, 2:15-3:00pm
Venue: School Hall
Mrs Taha and Mrs Pickering informed me that the children have been working their way through our home library books and that the children would like a few more.
So we’ve purchased more books to add to the collection.
Happy reading everyone!
Congratulations to all the children in Year 5 who have already achieved their Bronze Reading Award. To do this so early, they have read at home at least three times every week since joining Year 5. Well done. Keep enjoying your reading.
Wow! Some more children have achieved their Bronze Reading Award.
During our English lesson about our story Star of Fear, Star of Hope, the children had to create a freeze frame about a scene. One child had to narrate the scene for the rest of the class.
Congratulations to Myles, Mia and Ellise who completed the Summer Reading Challenge. They have also been invited to a Celebration Ceremony will take place at Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham on Sunday 2nd October.
On arriving at school Monday morning, Year 3 children discovered that we had had an uninvited visitor over the holidays. It seems a mysterious, mythical creature had decided to make its nest in our school garden. Plant pots were overturned, the shed door was broken and their were even strange, foot-print like markings on the floor. Using our inference skills, we deduced that the gigantic, golden egg might belong to a dragon. Year 3 have been enjoying reading “The boy who grew dragons” this term so we know that some dragon’s like to eat vegetables so perhaps the mother was after what we have planted in the garden!
Newspaper reports to follow describing our cracking find – watch this space!
Before the holiday, Year 5 were lucky to take part in a virtual meeting with Vashti Hardy who is a children’s author.
Vashti Hardy is a writer of children’s books spending her time between Lancashire and Sussex. She was a primary school teacher for several years, and has a special interest in children’s writing, especially free-writing and the use of journals and creating fantasy worlds.
We learned how we could create a fantasy world to inspire our writing.
She gave us five tips.
- Channel your interests.
- Look at the real world to ground your fantasy world.
- Collect images to inspire your world.
- Create a writing journal.
- Draw a map of your world.
Maybe you could use these tips to create a world of your own to base a story.
Why not visit Vashti Hardy’s website to find out more.
Congratulations to our latest group of Home Readers who have achieved Gold, Silver and Bronze awards.
Well done to all the children who have been summarising their reading in a sentence.