Year 1 have been amazing readers this week!

Year 1 excitedly had their first dips in the treasure chest this Friday, and grabbed a prize, as a reward for reading 5 times (or more) this week.

All week they have been reading with their adults and receiving DOJO points each time they read.

Well done Year 1, keep up the awesome reading!

1L's World Book Day

1L celebrated Work Book Day dressed as various characters. Can you guess who we are?

Our reading corner is used everyday!

1L love reading and using the cosy cushions, cuddly teddy bears and being in the cool castle.

Where do you read with your children at home? 

The Garbage King

In Class 6C, we have started our new class novel, The Garbage King.  

We are investigating the different characters and how they feel.

Here is a group exploring the Zone of Relevance for Dani's character.  

The most important characteristics are in the middle and the least important ones are round the side. We had a lot of interesting discussion deciding what we thought he was like and justifying our decisions from the text.

Green Council trip to Waterstones

Today, members of our Green Council from Key Stage 2 went on an exciting trip to Waterstones West Quay in order to choose books that will be prizes for children who win our new Reading Challenge.

 Nicky showed us around and made recommendations.  Students from Mountbatten School who were on Work Experience also helped the children by making suggestions.  Although we had a budget to keep to, we were really excited that Waterstones offered us a generous discount and even added a few free books to our pile as well.  If you go into Waterstones and see Nicky, please thank her as she was so helpful.  You could even ask her for her recommendations. She seemed to know everything about books for children.

When we got back to school we counted 59 books in all, suitable for children from Year R to Year 6.

Now everyone in the school needs to keep reading at home and bring their full cards in to school to be signed in order to be in with a chance of winning one of these lovely books.

A huge Shirley Warren thank you to Nicky and her team at Waterstones for your advice, kindness and biscuits - what a special treat for the children!

Y4H Celebrates World Book Day!

This year is the 20th anniversary of World Book Day, so we have dressed up to celebrate this event, by coming into school as our favourite book characters! Check out our costumes below!

Here is one of us pulling our silliest faces!

Book Making Y4K

Year 4 have finished their Tudor stories! We took our time editing and re-drafting, just like real authors. We are now in the process of making them into books, binding the papers together using saddle-stitch. Some of us have already finished and took time to read them to each other.