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As part of National Writing Day 2025, KS2 took part in a live online writing lesson alongside hundreds of other classes around the country. We all came together to celebrate creativity, storytelling and the joy of writing. The session was lively and inspiring and helped children to think deeply to…

What fun everyone has had today on World Book Day! Everyone came to dressed up as a character from a book or wore their pyjamas to school. Each class has celebrated the joy of reading today in different ways then paired with another class to share a book. 

Our Reading Ambassadors have been busy this week. They were very excited to accept delivery of the new books from each class’ wish list. They organised them into piles then stamped them with the school stamp.
 

What talent we have in our school! This poem was written at home for pleasure. Not only does it rhyme, it contains a powerful, relevant and compelling message. 

Our Reading Ambassadors met with our Head to present the findings from their research about the provision of books in our class libraries throughout school. They were allocated a budget to buy some of the books from the wish list so they took a trip out to our local book shop to buy some new books…

Congratulations to our children who took part in the Summer Reading Challenge organised by the Reading Agency Team and public libraries across the UK. This year, The Reading Agency teamed up with Youth Sport Trust for 'Ready, Set, Read! ' a sports and games themed Challenge themed around the power…

Today our Reading Ambassadors met to discuss how we can raise the profile of reading in our school and how to inspire children to immerse themselves in a book. We agreed that each class needed some different books in their class library that were more in keeping with the interests of the…

Some of our children took part in the Summer Reading Challenge organised by the local libraries. 
Well done!

Year 1 loved meeting the Meerkats from Pet Encounters.  In English we have been reading Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett.  Being able to get up to close to the Meerkats helped Year 1 develop their understanding about the animals.  In English we have explored writing in character as Sunny the Meerkat.…