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Reading Event
As part of our mission to continue to develop a culture of reading across school and build our partnership with parents and families, we invited parents and carers into school to our ‘Read & Share’ event.
In Reception and Key Stage one, the children follow the Little Wandle Early Reading & Phonics Scheme. Monday’s session focuses on decoding as the children are given a new book. Tuesdays focus is prosody, which is all about reading with expression and finally, Wednesday’s focus is comprehension, seeing how much the children have understood and remembered about the book.
In Key Stage two, the children follow the Pathways to Read scheme. These sessions take place daily. Monday’s session focuses on a whole class read where the teacher reads aloud to model intonation, fluency and pace. The children are also given the opportunity to read out loud. This shared session follows a four-part structure predict, clarify vocabulary, read and retrieve, and read and explain.
The event was a great success with lots of positive feedback. Many parents said it was a fantastic opportunity to see how reading is taught and how they can help their children to read at home.
We will be holding our reading event again during the Autumn term.
Reading Event
F2 Library Visit
We travelled by bus to our local library, whilst there we found out; what a library is, had a tour of the library, found out how many books we can borrow from the library, the different activities we can do when we visit the library and we listened to a story read to us by the librarian. We all really enjoyed it and were so excited to go home with an application form for our very own library card!
F2 Library Visit
World Book Day
As part of our ongoing commitment to reading, and our vision to nurture a love of books and stories in all our children, we celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 7th March 2024. The theme for World Book Day this year was “Read your way”.
'Read Your Way' called on everyone to let go of pressure and expectations, giving children a choice – and a chance – to enjoy reading. Every reader is different, and there’s no right or wrong way to enjoy reading, so we encouraged children to think about what reading looks like for them.
This year, to celebrate World Book Day, we were delighted to welcome back 'West End in Schools'. The feedback from pupils and staff was fantastic. All pupils enjoyed acting and dancing and loved exploring a story in such an expressive way.
Each of the workshops was led by a professional actor & dancer who guided each class through a choreographed movement sequence which explored this year’s story, Pinocchio. The workshops helped children to develop their confidence, use their imaginations and presentation skills alongside an understanding of narrative. By combining storytelling, movement and music, children were engaged with the story Pinocchio from a new, creative, and active perspective.
This year, we challenged our children to try something different! We asked them to come dressed as a word of their choosing. This could have been their favourite word, a new word that they have just learnt or one that they have recently learnt the meaning of.
The children’s ideas were fantastic and incredibly creative. Here are some photos of our fabulous, fun filled day.
World Book Day
Reading Tree
The English team have been busy applying for grants to re-vamp our library area by purchasing a reading tree to link with our woodland theme.
After their relentless efforts last term, we are delighted to receive a donation, towards the tree, from Ecclesfield Charity. Our wonderful Fots team have made this a reality by donating the rest of the funds meaning, we had enough to purchase it.
The children absolutely love it and are excited to start using it when visiting our library.
Here are some photos of our Reading Tree.
Reading Tree
Young Voices 2024
Young Voices 2024 was a great success and all choir members and staff enjoyed taking part in the Worlds biggest choir. The choir were lucky enough to preform alongside guest artists: Hip Hop Pantsula, Danny K, Incha, Pretty Yende, and Given Nkosi. We cannot wait for Young Voices 2025!
Young Voices 2024
Nativity 2023
F2 and Y1 and Y2 enjoyed performing the Christmas Nativity at St Saviours Church in High Green. Parents who attended enjoyed watching the children perform and there wasn’t a dry eye in the church!
Nativity 2023
Rock Steady
Every half term, the children who have ‘Rock Steady’ lessons enjoy performing to parents and children. This gives them a chance to showcase what they have learnt and how they have progressed with the musical instruments they are learning to play. Here are some photos of their latest performance.
Rock Steady
Carols By Candlelight
The choir enjoyed serenading our parents with Christmas carols at this years ‘Carols by Candlelight’ in our school woodland. Please join us at next years event -TBC.
Carols By Candlelight
Story Sacks
Please take a look at our beautiful new story sacks. I have taken a picture of one to show you the kind of items you can find inside each bag. Each story bag will generally contain a couple of book, props and a game for the children to enjoy with parents at home. Initially, these will be borrowed and taken home by our reception children. Mrs Coe will be in touch shortly with finer details. A huge thank you to Joanna Evans from Fots who has made and sourced all the items in each bag.
They are amazing!!!
Book Vending Machine
We are delighted to have received a grant from Ecclesfield Parish Council in order to purchase our fabulous new Book Vending Machine. On Tuesday 28th March we will be having a whole school assembly to draw raffle tickets, earned by the children, for their dedication and hard work in reading. Revd Tim Gill, from Ecclesfield Parish Council, will be our very special guest and officially open our vending machine. The books that we have purchased for the machine were kindly donated by our FOTS team and they have also been invited to join our assembly. The books were chosen by all of the children in school, and we have a vast range of reading books for the children to enjoy and keep as a reward for trying hard with their reading. Every half term we will have a reading celebration assembly in order to draw the raffle tickets the children have earned. Our English lead, Mrs Harding will draw two girls and two boys from every class every half term. As a school we understand the importance of promoting a love of reading and our Book Vending Machine is an exciting addition to this.
