Reading in unusual places…
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Today Year 6 joined the ConnectED – Power of Reading session. We heard from two business employees who both work in Canary Wharf; one as a lawyer and one in property assets.
They discussed the power of reading in their jobs and where they are required to use reading in their professional life. Hopefully this inspired some of our Year 6s to think that they could work in jobs like this!
Who thinks they can complete the ‘12 challenges of Christmas’ reading challenge?!? You can send any photos/videos of your challenges to the school office. Good luck and happy reading! ?
We had a great afternoon in Year 6 performing the classic poem ‘Dog in the Playground’ by Alan Alhberg.
We took advice from the legend Michael Rosen:
Here are a couple of our performances we knocked up this afternoon:
We also enjoyed watching this video from Sheen Mount Primary School performing another of Alan’s poems! I reckon they spent a lot of time practising this one!
As part of our European Language Day we asked parents and children to send in videos of them reading a story in another language. Here’s a few of the lovely stories we received:
Summer Reading Challenge
This year’s Summer Reading Challenge is being launched on 5th June and will end in September.
Sign up and join the Silly Squad, a bunch of animals who love to have a laugh and read lots of funny books.
Once you have you have signed up you can read books, earn badges, get rewards and play games to earn more points.
You can read books from home or if you are a member of a public library you can borrow e-books/audio books through Leeds Libraries ( https://www.leeds.gov.uk/leisure/libraries) or download the borrow-box app (https://www.borrowbox.com/).
What are you waiting for?!
Click on the link and join now!
Jolly Phonics have now made their reading books free to access using this link:
https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/jolly-phonics-e-readers-now-available/
Hello all 🙂
Don’t be stuck for something to read; check out this free book ‘How to NOT Go to School’ by Mike Forde.