What a week that was! The Festival of Reading was a huge success and in true Grazebrook style could not have been a better celebration of our passion for reading. A huge thank you to our community volunteers who gave up their time to support our pupils - your dedication and commitment were fantastic and the children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions. Thank you also to our families who stayed for our stop and read, who donated books for our book grab, baked for our cake sale and to the wonderful PSA who helped to organise and run the event. Massive thank yous to Sarah and Lisa, our English Hub team, who made it all possible.

Thank you all for your attendance at parents' evening last week. It was nice to see so many of you and thank you for your kind words of support and appreciation. Please let the school office or class teacher know if you didn't manage to make an appointment and we'd be glad to make an alternative arrangement.

The end of 2019 may now be truly in sight but there is still so much going on at Grazebrook. This week sees our first pantomime trips, our first Come Learn with Me sessions as well as extra curricular events, a reading breakfast and a class assembly - what a lot to pack in!

There's still plenty more to come before we break for the holidays, not to mention our concerts, the truly lovely Nursery Nativity, as well as our Christmas lunch/Christmas jumper day to name just a few.

Have a lovely week,

Jess Hutchison

Our Joy of Reading Festival was a huge success and pupils looked so wonderful dressed as characters: from Harry Potter to Claude; the Demon Headmaster to the Worst Witch; Lyra Belacqua to Fantastic Mr Fox; there were book characters everywhere. 'This is my dream day' sums up well how many of us felt about Friday. We had an amazing storyteller wow us with stories of Anansi, trips to four (yes, four!) local libraries and an afternoon of workshops run by our wonderful community volunteers. Not only that, even the lunches were book themed with 'Mr Mcgregor's' pie and 'Mrs Twit's Worm Spaghetti to name but two.

The smiles lasted all day and the final book grab and cake sale were a real treat to end the perfect day. The children could not believe they were able to take home a book to keep forever from our inaugural book grab. Thank you to all who donated and all who facilitated - it was a privilege to see how genuinely delighted the children were to take home a new read. The whole day made the very most of our favourite past-time and was a worthy celebration.