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News: Reading
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23
May
Nana is our reader of the week this week! Nana has been reading regularly at home and has been having her journal signed! Keep it up!
20
May
Enjoying story time at the library.
19
May
Szymon is our reader of the week.
19
May
Jaymee-Leigh is our reader of the week this week! Jaymee-Leigh has had her journal signed every week since January and this can be recognised in the progress she has made. Keep it up!
12
May
Our story this week is What The Ladybird Heard.
12
May
Odea is our reader of the week.
12
May
Great reading and writing in provision.
9
May
Praise is our reader of the week this week! She has read multiple times at home, keep it up!
6
May
Dominic is our reader of the week (again)
30
Apr
Our story of the week is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
28
Apr
Pixie-Lou is our reader or the week!
23
Apr
Abdul is our reader of the week!
7
Apr
Sabriya is our reader of the week!
31
Mar
Athena is our reader of the week!
28
Mar
Year 1's Reader of the week is Perez!
28
Mar
Year 2’s Reader of the week is Arya!
28
Mar
Year 3 have finished reading "How to Train Your Dragon"! The class thoroughly enjoyed Hiccup's adventures and the exciting world of dragons. There were many laughs and gasps as they journeyed through the story. It was a fantastic novel to explore together
28
Mar
Huge congratulations to Chimamanda for being Year 3's Reader of the Week!
26
Mar
Blackburn Library's Poetry by Heart Triumph!
26
Mar
We had a wonderful time today with Mrs Harrison and our design a jar competition winners from World Book Day. We enjoyed a trip to Waterstones and then a hot chocolate each at Costa. A great day had by us all.
24
Mar
Dominic is our reader of the week. Who will it be next week?
21
Mar
Reader of the Week! Laiyla is our first reader of the week! Well done for reading multiple times at home, you are a superstar!
21
Mar
Annabella is the reader of the week for this week. Well done for improving your reading at home Annabella! Keep it up!
20
Mar
Year 3's Reader of the Week! A huge congratulations to Ava, who has consistently shown her love of reading by always bringing her book in on time and reading every week. Well done, Ava! We're so proud of you!
17
Mar
Ronnie is our reader of the week.
8
Mar
World Book Day 2025 in Year 1. We really appreciate all the effort you have gone to with the costumes and jars, the children looked fantastic! Thank you.
7
Mar
World Book Day Winners!
6
Mar
Happy world book day!
6
Mar
World Book Day 2025 in Year 2. Wow what an incredible effort every single person made today. We really appreciate the effort you have gone to with the costumes and the jar competition. Thank you!
6
Mar
Amazing costumes today! Thank you for the support from home :)
6
Mar
Year 6 are having a fabulous World Book Day!
6
Mar
A great start to our world book celebrations this morning. We began with a special world book worship where we talked about top tips for reading followed by a book quiz. Special shout out to Miss Cornall and her special helpers.
6
Mar
An amazing selection of stories in a jar today. Well done to all children and a huge thank you to those parents who helped put these together. We've got a real job on our hands today choosing the winners.
6
Mar
Year 6 really enjoyed helping set up our story in jars today. One of our governors is coming in tomorrow to help judge our winners.
6
Mar
{gallery:A few pictures from today to show off our wonderful world book day outfits. A huge well done and massive shoutout to the grown ups behind the scenes pulling these together.....we see you.}
23
Jan
Year 5 have absolutely loved exploring space with Frank Cottrell-Boyce's 'Cosmic'!
21
Jan
Enjoying a book by Reception in the reading area.
13
Jan
Great reading and writing in provision.
3
Dec
Another great visit to the Library.
20
Nov
We've had a magical time exploring the world of Narnia with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Your children have shown incredible imagination and enthusiasm as they've followed the Pevensie siblings on their extraordinary adventure.
13
Nov
We have finished our second class novel this week! We have really enjoyed reading Planet Omar accidental trouble magnet and we are ready to start our next one.
12
Nov
Adrianna joined us at the library today.
11
Nov
We enjoyed our introduction to our story of the week- Handa’s Surprise.
6
Nov
Yesterday, we finished reading our first book of the school year. We really enjoyed 'Wonder'.
30
Oct
Last half term we read Funny Bones and discussed the house they live in and our own houses. Today we recapped this and went on a walk around Mill Hill to look at different types of houses. Ask your children about this tonight.
17
Oct
We loved our session with Paul Cookson. He is a poet. We listened to lots of poems and wrote our own poem with him.
17
Oct
Today we have had a visit from a famous poet, Paul Cookson. We enjoyed a whole school assembly, and then we had our session in Year, where he helped us to write a poem all about the Stone Age. We had so much fun!
16
Oct
A huge congratulations to Reema and Ruby who completed the Blackburn with Darwen Libraries' Summer Reading Challenge!
15
Oct
Another lovely trip to the library!
14
Oct
READER OF THE WEEK 14.10.24
7
Oct
Making skeletons linked to our story of the week.
4
Oct
This week Olivia is reader of the week!
4
Oct
This week it has been poetry week! In Years 2 and 3, we have done a variety of workshops. In this session, we learnt all about acrostic poems and had a go at writing our own Autumn one.
4
Oct
We have finished our first class novel this week! We have really enjoyed reading An Alien in the jam factory and we are ready to start our next one.
1
Oct
To celebrate Poetry Week, Yr 2 and Yr 3 pupils have been mixed into groups to participate in various poetic activities. My group activity gave the children the opportunity to watch different types of performance poems and discuss what made them special.
1
Oct
A wonderful morning as part of our poetry week. Mrs Hargreaves has had a great time reading a range of different poetry books in our school library.
1
Oct
Learning a poem in English ready to perform to the rest of the school tomorrow.
30
Sep
Poetry week- making play dough pancakes.
30
Sep
Poetry week- tossing pancakes.
30
Sep
Poetry week- exploring poems and nursery rhymes.
30
Sep
Poetry week- enjoying Rhyme Time with year 1.
30
Sep
Poetry week- yummy pancakes.
24
Sep
Another lovely trip to the library. We even got juice and biscuits today.
17
Sep
We loved our first visit to Mill Hill Library today. They will all bring home a registration form tomorrow. Please fill it in and then we can get them all their own Library card.
20
Jun
We have just finished reading 'The Wizards of Once' by Cressida Cowell. It was a very entertaining book - ask us about it.
18
Jun
Earlier today, we had an exciting English experience lesson where we visited Mill Hill Library. We explored the world of new and old books and spoke about how books can take us to places we have never been before.
12
Jun
Thank you Christina Gabbitas!
22
May
Yesterday, we finished our latest novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children thoroughly enjoyed it. I wonder what our next novel will be?!
2
May
Reading practice in the sun
30
Apr
Today we finished reading 'The Boy at the Back of the Class' which we thoroughly enjoyed. Please ask us about it.
19
Mar
We are all story explorers! Reception had lots of fun at the library today.
15
Mar
What an amazing day we have had! We have learnt a funny poem and performed it to the rest of KS1. Thank you to all parents and carers who have donated £1 for comic relief, we really appreciate your continued support
11
Mar
Our World Book Day winners enjoyed their prize of a trip to Waterstones to choose a book and a hot chocolate at Costa. Well done!
8
Mar
World Book Day 2024 WINNERS!!!
7
Mar
What an excellent effort you have all gone to. We can’t wait to enjoy lots of activities today all about words to help extend our vocabulary and improve our writing✏️
7
Mar
What an amazing day we have had✨ We have done lots of fun activities around words to help widen our vocabulary
7
Mar
World Book Day with year 3!!
7
Mar
This morning we have been sorting words into the different word classes. We have also been learning many new words to help us improve our writing.
9
Feb
World Book Day- Most interesting word competition
8
Feb
The library bus came to our school this morning, and the children were excited as they picked out new books for our library.
8
Feb
Today we finished reading our class novel, Coraline. This book kept us in suspense throughout.
8
Feb
World Book Day - Thursday 7th March
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