“Reading is important because when you read a book, you gain knowledge and information about the past, future and the world today.” – Adam 5H
“Reading regularly improves your life chances as reading is used in many jobs, therefore it is such a useful skill!” – Angelmary 5O
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Dotty the Reading Dog
Some of our Year 1 children had a lovely afternoon meeting Karen and Dotty the reading dog. They were so happy reading to Dotty and talking about their books.
Roald Dahl Day
To celebrate Roald Dahl day this year, each class conducted a scientific investigation based on a Roald Dahl book. The children had lots of fun making lava lamps, fizzy colours and using their footprints to measure their height! Who says learning isn’t fun?
Reading on BBC Radio Stoke!
Some of our Year 6 children have represented St Mary’s Catholic Primary School on BBC Radio Stoke’s book club! The children selected one of their favourite books to read an extract from with some clues to help the audience. I wonder if you can guess which book they chose…? The children also spoke about our wonderful new library! Below is the link for you to listen to – skip to one hour and 39 minutes into the programme and the second part at 1 hour 48 minutes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bgbyz9
Useful Websites for Home Reading
- Book Trust – Inspire a Love of Reading
Click the link above to access some lovely online reading books
- Love Reading 4 Kids – Sharing Book Love
Click on the link above to browse award winning books, enter competitions and much more…
Reception had a brilliant day on World Book Day. We started the day welcoming our wonderful parents in for a shared read, made Gruffalo puppets along with various other activities and finished the day watching the Gruffalo and enjoying some popcorn and chocolate milk! #WBD2025 #eyfsstm #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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Books so good, you can’t put them down! 📚✨ Abhinav proves that great stories can fit into any part of the day – even while brushing his teeth! 😆🪥
We love seeing our children making the most of their Reading Bags in creative ways. Keep the wonderful photos coming! ❤️
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✨ This week, another group of children shared their favourite books! The energy was infectious as they swapped stories and discovered new ones to dive into 📖💫. It’s so wonderful seeing their love for reading grow! 🌟 #readingstm #FridayFavouritesstm … See MoreSee Less
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A huge thank you to Rachael Davis and Claire Hatcher-Smith for sharing their fantastic books with us! 📚✨ The children absolutely loved You Got This! and The Mizzy Mysteries: A Skeleton in the Globe! Such inspiring stories and wonderful authors! 💛 #readingstm #englishstm #authoroftheweekstm … See MoreSee Less
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What a wonderful World Book Day! Year 1 have had a fantastic day which began with a very exciting and mysterious assembly. We heard extracts from the books that can be exchanged for the World Book Day tokens and we were spoilt for choice. We were then given a mystery book with clues for us to guess what the book could be. From the clues, we created book covers and had a grand reveal to see if we were correct. In the afternoon, we got comfy with our tasty treats and enjoyed a true literary classic, The Jungle Book. As a fantastic end to our day, we held a book sale with all of the donated books and we were overwhelmed by the donations. A huge thank you to our PTFA for our tasty treats. After such a busy day, we were glad to be in our pajamas!
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✝️Year 6 Catholic Life Pledge✝️
📚As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Year 6 ran a fantastic charity book stall, with all the books kindly donated by our families. We had an amazing selection and are so proud to have raised £187.15 for Dougie Mac! Thank you to everyone who supported us.📚
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Hi, yes it was a whole school effort! We had a brilliant number of donations – both books and money. Year 6 ran the stall for us 😄
That's incredible, thanks so much for your brilliant support! We hope you had a brilliant World Book Day! 🙌📚
Amazing amount of money raised well done everyone 👏👏👏
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Year 4 have had a great time celebrating World Book Day. The day started with a mystery book. The children had to listen to the clues to figure out what the book was. They then took part in readers theatre – reading an extract from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We even had visitors in the classroom! The finale to the day was watching the film and eating popcorn! #year4stm #englishstm #readingstm #worldbookdaystm … See MoreSee Less
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Year 2 have had a great day today celebrating world book day! We have designed our own book covers based on the clues of our mystery book. We then had a dramatic reveal of our book being ‘The Borrowers’! Then, we read 2 chapters of the story and read a section with our best expressions. In the afternoon, we have enjoyed chocolate milkshake and popcorn whilst watching The Borrowers film. #year2stm #worldbookdaystm #englishstm #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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Looks like they’ve had a wonderful day! 😃
✨ Happy World Book Day! ✨
Year 6 have had so much fun predicting our book and designing our own covers – nearly everyone guessed correctly that it was Matilda!
We even performed A Little Bit Naughty, Readers’ Theatre style, showing off our acting 🎭.
To finish off the day, we got cosy for a slumber party with popcorn, chocolate milk, and a screening of the original Matilda film. Such a magical day celebrating stories we love!
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Great photos! X