This morning we went to Heywood library. All the children are now members of the library and have taken out some books to read for pleasure in their own time. We completed lots of book activities from making bookmarks to completing book scavenger hunts. Excellent behaviour Year 3. Enjoy reading Read more…
A few weeks ago, we celebrated World Book Day. The children visited the school library where they enjoyed reading books with their friends. We played charades in the classroom, where children had to act out and guess from our BOOKFLIX selection.
Today we celebrated world book day with a range of reading activities. The children really enjoyed our book tasting session along with a visit to the library with some quiet reading time. We enjoyed some hot chocolate and biscuits in the afternoon whilst we listened to a story from Helena’s Read more…
Today in Reception we have been celebrating World Book Day! We designed our own book tokens, book marks and front covers. We even joined in with World Book Day yoga! At 11 o’clock we joined the BBC live for a lesson all about World Book Day! In small groups we Read more…
The children have really enjoyed reading club after school. We have explored lots of books in the library, have used laptops to access our EBooks and Enjoyed reading with friends.
Today Year 3 went to Heywood library to take part in a range of activities and join the library. The children enjoyed looking at the wide selection of books on offer to borrow along with sharing stories, making book marks and completing a scavenger hunt. Most importantly though, they all Read more…
This afternoon we had a very special visitor.. Beatrice’s mum came to read to us! She read us a very funny story.. Poo at the Zoo! It made us all laugh and Miss Forbes is going to have to purchase the book for our reading area! She also read a Read more…
In Year 5 this week we have been celebrating Reading Week! One activity we did was to create some art based on the picture book Jemmy Button by Alix Barzelay. The book is about the true story of Jemmy Button, who was taken from his home by British explorers in Read more…
This week in Year 5 we’ve been celebrating all things books! We had some parents visit to read their favourite books and poems to the class, which was lovely for us to hear! We also read to our Reading Buddies in Reception. Year 5 love to share picture books with Read more…
Over the last couple of days we have enjoyed a further 3 guest readers coming into our classropom to share their love of reading and stories with us. On Thursday we had a visit from Finley’s mum who shared the story “There is a dragon in your book”. The children Read more…
This week we enjoyed listening to two stories via zoom. First we had Hannah and Joshua’s mum who read a book from the Hairy Mcclarey series of books. The children really enjoyed listening to the funny names and the rhyme patterens. We then had a zoom call from Lacey’s nanna Read more…
This morning our Year 5 buddies came to read with us! Some of us went into the Year 5 classroom to read, and some of Year 5 came into our classroom to read. We chose our favourite Bookflix book and our Year 5 buddies read them to us. Thank you Read more…
This morning we explored reading in the outdoors by building our own reading dens with the help of Mrs Butcher (our forest school leader). The children worked in teams to find suitable ground and then created their den with the use of string, tarpaulin, ground sheets and tent pegs. They Read more…
Today we were very lucky to have not one, but three guest readers in our classroom. This morning we had a visit from Maisey’s mum who read us a Charlie and Lola story. The children enjoyed listening to the story, answering questions and looking at the pictures. Then this afternoon, Read more…
This afternoon, Years 3 and 4 joined together at a picnic to talk about thier favourite books. They took turns to read chapters and pages from their books to each other whilst enjoying the sunshine with a biscuit and juice.