Reading For Pleasure

Book Choice!

Each week, we add to our book stock so that the children can choose from a wide range of texts from a wide range of award winning authors. All children, whether they are learning to read or can read fluently and independently, are given a reading for pleasure book, alongside their reading scheme book. We encourage parents to read stories to their children at bedtime as being exposed to vocabulary is key in developing their understanding of the world.

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Books For Keeps Books for Keeps is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children’s books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on their website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators. They also publish a monthly magazine full of useful information about children's books!

Places To Read In And Around School

Each of our classrooms has a reading / library corner and we also have a book nook at the top of the KS2 corridor, where the children can curl up on one of the sofas with a good book during lunch or break times. In the current 2022 - 2023 academic year, we are currently attempting to overall all of our reading areas in order to make them more inviting to our children. During the Summer, the Year 1 classroom was the first to undergo a transformation!

Reading Areas Around The School

Reading Area Transformations!

Our Wonderful New Library ~ Spring 2023!

World Book Day!

Every year, the children and staff thoroughly enjoy celebrating World Book Day. We dress up and spend the whole day talking about and sharing our favourite books! We also choose a different text each year as our focus text and at the end of the day, we share all of the great learning the children have been doing, from preschool through to Year 6.

The homework on WBD is always of a high quality and we are always impressed by the level of effort our children and parents go to.