Blog by Tag: Reading

Year 3 attended a literary event at St Bees School where they enjoyed taking part in a carousel of engaging workshops. We met local author, H.M Sharpe, who guided us along the tale of an Irish princess through drama and improvisation. She has written several novels, among them a story about St…

This afternoon, Reception shared a book with Y6. There was lots giggles and laughter as they enjoyed the story and the illustrations. A great way to end World Book Day. 

Year 3 had a great World Book Day spending time colouring in, doing word searches, reading to Miss Carty and reading stories to the Year 1 children. They all looked great in their costumes and pjs.

Year 6 visited their local library this afternoon to return the book(s) they withdrew on their last visit and to choose a new book. They are becoming very independent at using the library systems. 

Year 3 had a walk to the library this afternoon to choose a book, they chose fiction and non-fiction. They can’t wait to go home to read them.

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.