Reading Newsletter

Dear All,

We have been overwhelmed with so many of the titles chosen by our children and adults in exchange for our Christmas movie night. Your generosity is hugely appreciated and it's been lovely to see lots of the titles being selected as home reads already. Thank you for supporting this event each year which helps us keep our libraries refreshed. 

We are really looking forward to some exciting reading events which we are planning for World Book Day next half term on Thursday 6th March including our annual pyjama day so that we can get comfy as we read, a competition organised by The Reading Ambassadors to design a book cover or book character using a potato, live virtual author sessions and a guess the masked reader run by the Reading Ambassadors. There's lots to look forward to! We are also looking forward to opening our doors to you at the slightly earlier time of 3:00pm to allow you to come in and share a book with your child. A Google form will go out in due course where you can express an interest in our parents and carers 'Stop, Drop and Read' event; we were delighted with the turnout from this last term. 

Continued daily reading is vitally important for all of our children whether they are still learning to decode and are on their road to fluency or are competent readers and are continuing to widen their vocabulary and enjoy reading for pleasure. Please support your child to read for pleasure by engaging in reading itself with them or book chat as regularly as you can. Coram Beanstalk is a reading volunteer charity who we continue to use in school to read alongside small groups of children and promote a love of reading. They have shared some ideal half term reading games which may interest you to support reading conversations with you child. You can access these via the links below. 

We hope you enjoy the other recommendations shared within this newsletter via us and our reading community. 

Happy half term reading!

Kind regards

Mrs Lang and Mrs Francis 

Reading Community