“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
Reading Curriculum Statement
Reading Policy
Reading Overview
Reading Gallery
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…
📝Author of the Week📝
This week we listened to Emma Yarlett describe her hilarious book Nibbles the Book Monster 😋 and Demot O’Leary talk about his book Spy Fox 🕵️♂️🦊. We can’t wait to check these out at Staffordshire Libraries! #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Word Multi- Millionaires📚
Congratulations to Elizabeth on St Rita and Oliver in St Paul for reaching 2,000,000 words and to Mine and Milan in St Peter for reaching 3,000,000 words on Accelerated Reader! What an inspirational group of children! #readingstm #year6stm #year5stm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Friday Favourites📚
Here are this week’s recommendations from St Mary’s! It was great to see some film adaptations this week, so not only can we read the book, but we can watch the film too! 📽️#readingstm #fridayfavouritesstm … See MoreSee Less
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Good choice Bella xx
📚Here is St Mary's Reading Newsletter for this half term which celebrates our love of reading! We hope you enjoy reading what we've been up to! 📚 #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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📝🗺️📚Look at these two superstars! Janiya and Olivia have both become published writers after submitting their work for the Young Writers competition! The girls were asked to write a short story about a ‘Magical Map’! Wow! Also, Olivia has now been awarded her 2,000,000 words certificate! What an amazing achievement. 📚🗺️📝 #englishstm #readingstm #year5stm #writingstm … See MoreSee Less
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Congratulations guys! What an incredible achievement 🙂 Please can we ask for your permission to use this photo in our own marketing activity? Thank you!
Congratulations girls👏🏾 Brilliantly done Olivia 😘😍👏🏾🎉
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📚Friday Favourites📚
The school loved listening to this week’s top picks! As a bit of change, there were lots of picture books that the children shared this week which were really interesting! #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #fridayfavoritesstm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Today, the Year 6 librarians took part in Y6’s Catholic Life Pledge which focused on restocking the Woodland Library at school utilising Newcastle’s charity shops! This pledge not only supported our local charities but also was a great way to sustainably stock up on books and support CAFOD’s Live Simply campaign. The librarians managed to purchase 268 books for our library! After visiting so many shops and carrying all of the books, they were treated to a hot chocolate for their hard work! Thank you to the PTFA for funding our pledge.
The librarians were stopped by a member of the public who was blown away by their behaviour and then was wowed to find out about our Catholic Life Pledge! She was so impressed that she even donated three books to our cause! Thank you so much! 📚 #year6stm #catholiclifestm #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #ptfastm Oxfam PDSA Cancer Research UK Air Ambulance Dougie Mac … See MoreSee Less
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How wonderful! Thank you for visiting one of our charity shops, helping poorly pets in need with every book purchase. Happy reading all ❤️
We saw them in the library. They were very polite x
📝Author of the Week📝
This week, Jo Lindsey shared her picture book ‘Hello Winter’ and Philip Kavvadias shared an excerpt from his book ‘Microraptor’. We’d love to hear if you read either of these two books! #readingstm #authoroftheweekstm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Friday Favourites📚
A huge thank you to all of the children who shared their favourite books this week! From to Percy Jackson to Tom Gates, the school loved hearing this week’s recommendations! #readingstm #fridayfavouritesstm … See MoreSee Less
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