Today, the Carmel House Leaders conducted the Carmel House Assembly, where four brave Year Six students shared their favourite books from the classroom library. It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to express what they enjoy about the books they have been reading.
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Welcome to the 3rd issue of the KS2 Library Newsletter!
This newsletter has expanded to three pages, as there is so much happening with reading in our school right now. The biggest change is that students are now contributing directly to the content! In this issue, Carmel House Leaders Thomas and Chanu have written the Author Profile on David Walliams.
Highlights to look out for:
• New librarians for the Autumn term
• An updated “Most Requested” list
• New arrivals to the library
• Updated Classroom Library Lists for 2024–2025
• House Ambassadors sharing books from the book fair that they’re excited to read
Enjoy reading!
Check out our new reading bookmarks. These will be given to the children who have achieved the Reading Governor’s Award.
Each year the children will receive a different colour- try and collect them all!
Yellow – Reception
Green – Year One
Royal Blue – Year Two
Red- Year Three
Navy – Year Four
Purple – Year Five
Black – Year Six
Congratulations to everyone who took part in Sports Day today. We certainly showed our sports values of Teamwork, Passion, Self-belief, Respect, Determination and Honesty.
We began with a warm up.
The scorers got ready for their important job.
Throwing Event
Long Jump
Athletics
This year, the winners were Jericho.
Thank you to all the helpers who ensured everything went so smoothly.
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!
A huge well done to House Sinai, who have won the St Alban’s Cup this half term. Every child will receive a yellow badge to mark this event.
The leader board has been wiped clean and it is a new start. Which house will win the cup at the end of this half term?
Thank you,
Mrs Gurner
Meet our reading tutors! Last week, Mr Frelich and I trained these children to listen to infants read. Once a week, our kind tutors will listen to younger children read, to help build their reading fluency.
Community is so important to St Alban’s. The younger children love having this special time with our year 5 and 6 children. What excellent role models we are blessed to have at our school!
This week we are thrilled to launch our new Classroom Libraries. On class pages, we will post a picture of the library books that your child can take home to read.
With the support of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) we have created a list of ‘must’ reads for each year group. These are quality texts that we want our children to encounter.
The attached letter explains how this exciting initiative will work.
As always, if you have any questions then please get in touch with either myself or your child’s class teacher.
Today House Carmel have been busy labelling our new class library books. These will be ready for the children to enjoy at home very soon.
