Reading at Home
Read, read, read! This is the most crucial, valuable and rewarding thing that you can do to support your child with their learning. In terms of reading scheme books, Oxford Owl is a good free online resource (which supports our school reading scheme), with a wide range of ebooks available for your child to read. You will be able to select books dependent on their age and reading ability.
It is absolutely fine for children to re-read books, in fact this helps children in the early stages of reading to become more fluent and increase their confidence.
Saturday 23rd May 2020 is Elmer Day!
https://www.elmer.co.uk/elmer-day/
Dress in your brightest colours to take part in Elmer Day!
Elmer is a much-loved children’s book character who is known for his unique colourful, patchwork appearance and his good sense of humour.
You can listen to the first Elmer story read by the author, David McKee, using this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtY7KlOX-PE
Activities to celebrate Elmer Day, can be found by using the link below:
https://www.elmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Elmer-Day-Activity-Pack-1.pdf
If you would like to take part, please send your photos of your children dressed colourfully to celebrate Elmer Day to teachers using your class email address.
Videos of a variety of Teachers and Teaching Assistants reading Elmer stories for their class to enjoy, will be added to the school website over the next week.
Happy Elmer Day!
Staff and Children Celebrating Elmer Day at home (May 2020)
Reading Challenge (May 2020)
During lockdown we are inviting the children to take part in a 'Caught Reading' challenge to further promote the importance of books and the pleasure of reading.
Can your child be caught reading somewhere funny, unusual, secretive or imaginative (whilst also remaining safe, of course!)?
Please email a photo of your child 'Caught Reading' to your child's class teacher – if you would like to, along with a caption. We look forward to seeing them! To get us started, here is one of our Year 2's caught reading to her Nana on Facetime during lockdown. The most recent book she’s been reading is 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark', which she has been reading a chapter at a time to her Nana.
Eventually we will add a selection of these photos to our FaceBook page, but we would like to see a variety of pictures before we do this! Please don’t be disappointed if your child’s photo doesn’t appear on FaceBook, the staff will still enjoy seeing the photos at school.
'Caught Reading' (May 2020)
