Blog by Tag: Reading

Year 1 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. They spent the day sharing their favourite stories. Year 1 designed and created their own bookmarks. It was lovely sharing story time with Year 6 for even more stories. 
 

Year 4 have had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day 2026. We began with the BBC live lesson, exploring our own, individual reading vibes, thinking about how we want books to make us feel.  Inspired by our class enjoyment book, The Faraway Tree, we then created our own black out poetry,…

Year 1 had a fantastic trip to the Library today. While they were there they learned about how the library works, chose their own book and checked it out, read with their friends and listened to a spooky story read by Ms. Bond. The librarian commented on how polite and well behaved the children…

Year 6 walked to their local library this afternoon to renew or return and withdraw a book of their choice. Some children learned how to use the automated machine to return their book. They all enjoyed exploring the wide range of books available to borrow and sharing some really lovely…

This week we had our first visit of the new school year to Egremont library. Here we shared stories and chose new library books…not forgetting to take back the ones we had already borrowed!
 

Congratulations to everyone in Year 1 who has worked so hard to do their best in the Phonics Screening Test. We are very proud of everyone. A big thank you to all our families who have continued to support learning at home. 
 

Our final visit to Egremont Library together as a St St Bridget’s pupil. Great to see everyone returning, selecting and withdrawing books independently with confidence, ready to be independent library users. 

Year 3 enjoyed listening to our class book, The Magician’s nephew, and chose a book to take home. Enjoy reading home Year 3!

Today we enjoyed a visit from the Library Van with Claire the librarian.  We had a fantastic time choosing new books to share in class. Once we had all chosen a book, Claire kindly read a story. It was really fun having story time on the Library Van. 
 

Today, Year 5 visited the Library Van to refresh our class library with new books.
We learned about all the different genres available, including horror, comedy, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Everyone enjoyed choosing their own books, and we had a great time reading them back in class.

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.