Blog by Tag: Reading

Year 3 enjoyed listening to Stone Age stories and choosing books to take home. The librarian said they were the best behaved children she had ever had.

The Library Van visited our school today. Everyone had the opportunity to choose a library book. There was so much choice! Some of us have already arranged to swap our books with each other after we’ve read them. 
 

Year 6 enjoyed a visit to their local library, Egremont Library, this afternoon. They are learning how to take responsibility for returning a book before withdrawing another. Tracey, the librarian, was very impressed with how many children returned their book. 

This afternoon Year One visited Egremont Library. We enjoyed finding out all about the library, sharing books, choosing a book to borrow and listening to some exciting stories read by Mrs Bond. We really enjoyed looking at all the wonderful books and are very excited to read our new books when we…

Welcome to Year 6! What a lovely morning we had reacquainting ourselves. First, we devised our Learning Charter together then we took part in a quiz. Finally, we went onto the Book Bus to select the library books to have in our class from Autumn term. 
 

Year 6 made their final visit to Egremont Library with their peers from St. Bridget’s today. They demonstrated that they now know how to independently return, renew and borrow new books from their local library; skills that will prove invaluable as they move to their next stage of education. 
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Year 6 went to their local library today to exchange their library books. It was exciting to find books by favourite authors, a book on their favourite topic, discover new authors and a new book series to delve into. 
 

Over the past few weeks Year 2 have been reading ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’ by Grahame Baker-Smith, in their reading lessons, plus some other texts linked to the water cycle. They used what they had learned to show the water cycle using collage.

Year 3 enjoyed story time at the library and chose some books to take home. We had a great time and the lady commented on how polite, quiet and well behaved all of our Year 3 children were. We were so proud.

Year 6 enjoyed sharing a book with Year 1 on World Book Day. 

We had a great day today. The children looked amazing. They read our class book, Operation Gadgetman and voted for their top 10 books. After lunch they teamed up with a Reception child to read them a story. They wrote book reviews, made book marks and took part in a live World Book Day lesson. A…

We celebrated World Book Day in Reception by dressing as our favourite book character or in pjs. The children brought a book to share and we played a game of guess the character by listening to clues from different traditional stories and guessing the correct character or object. In the afternoon…