“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…
📚 Word Millionaires 📚
Congratulations to Nicholas in St Teresa for becoming a Word Multi-Millionaire by reading 2,000,000 words!
A huge well done also to Adithyan in St Teresa and Akshayan in St Peter who have each read 1,000,000 words on Accelerated Reader and are now officially Word Millionaires!
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Amazing well done 👏
📚Friday Reads Are In!📚
The end of the week means it’s time to celebrate another brilliant batch of books! From page-turners to hidden gems, we’ve loved diving into new stories and swapping recommendations with each other. Let’s keep the reading buzz going!
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💫📖 Fabulous Friday Reads! 📖💫
Friday is here and so are our top book picks of the week! We’ve had a brilliant time exploring new adventures through these fantastic stories. There’s nothing better than sharing great reads with friends! #readingstm #FridayFavouritesstm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Accelerated Reader📚
In today’s Merit Assembly, we celebrated the children’s commitment to reading!
We celebrated the children who had:
📚Read the most words in their class!
📚Completed the most quizzes in their class!
📚Read over 1,000,000 words this year!
We also celebrated the classes with the most words read – St Maria (3,726,427 words) and St Peter (22,233,362 words)!
Well done everyone!
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📚 Wow—what an amazing achievement! A massive well done to all the children for their fantastic reading efforts! 👏 Special congratulations to those hitting the million-word milestone and to St Maria and St Peter for leading the way with incredible word counts! 🌟 Keep turning those pages—you're all reading superstars! ⭐
Well done everyone xxxxxxxxx
Well done
😊Check out this term’s St Mary’s Reading Newsletter! 📚✨ It’s been an incredible term filled with so much reading to celebrate 🎉and we can’t wait for you to dive into all the exciting details! 📖
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📚 Authors of the Month – April 📚
This April, these fantastic authors are getting our children excited about reading!
For ages 5+:
🌳 Our Tree by Jessica Meserve
🐘 Basil Dreams Big by Lu Fraser
For ages 7+:
📖 The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood by Farhana Islam
For ages 9+:
🕵️ Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed by Eve Wersocki Morris
✍️ The Line They Drew Through Us by Hiba Noor Khan
🎭 Peregrine Quinn and the Mask of Chaos by Ash Bond
🐻 Puloma and the Bear by Jasbinder Bilan
📘 The First Year by Matt Goodfellow
🌌 Deep Dark by Zohra Nabi
Let us know if you pick up any of these amazing reads!
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Year 2 have had a great afternoon sharing their most recent Art project to the Reception children in our outdoor reading area.
Our current Art unit is called ‘Tell a story’ and the children have been focusing on their drawing techniques to be able to convey emotions of characters. From this, they have created their very own character and story board.
The children used their oracy skills to share their story and then went on to look through their sketchbooks to share all of the art skills that they have learnt over the year.
We finished our afternoon off by reading a story by the reading huts to our new friends. #year2stm #artstm #oracystm #receptionstm #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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📚Friday Favourites📚
Thank you so much to everyone for bringing their favourite books in today! From Taylor Swift biographies 🎤 to The Three Little Pigs 🐷, we’ve loved sharing our top reads this Friday! #fridayfavouritesstm #readingstm … See MoreSee Less
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Thank you to Demi in Year 6 for her addition to our Reading Bag. She really has shown that there's no such thing as a place too small to read in!
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