English Martyrs Book Week
W/C 27th February
Reading is at the heart of our curriculum here at English Martyrs and we pride ourselves on having a range of books and quality texts for pupils to read across school. This is ever expanding and we have ambitious plans to continue improving our reading provision across the school.
Dedicating a whole week to Book Week at English Martyrs is important in order to recognise and celebrate the wide range of texts, authors, illustrators and experiences that come with picking up a book.
Please see our rich list of opportunities for pupils across the school that will take place during our Book Week. We are hoping to organise visits to Urmston Library this week as well with details to be confirmed for each class.
Monday 27th February
Lunchtime Story Club
Some of our Y5 and Y6 pupils will be spending some of their lunchtime reading stories to our younger pupils in Early Years, enjoying time together with stories
Early Years – Stay and Read session 3pm
Join us in Nursery and Reception for staying to share a story or two with your child.
Chance to explore our books and stories and snuggle up with your child for our stay and read session. All parents, carers or grandparents welcome – Please limit to 1 adult per child due to limited classroom space!
For Key Stage 1 Pupils (Year 1 and 2)
One off After School Club with Mrs Dunn: Draw like an Illustrator 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Limited places: Please return the slip if your child would like to attend
Tuesday 28th February
Lunchtime Club for Key Stage 1 with Mrs Dunn & the Pupil Librarians
Bookmark making with crafts (Optional, no booking required)
For Key Stage 2 Pupils (Year 3, 4, 5 and 6)
One off After School Club with Mrs Dunn: Draw like an Illustrator 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Limited places: Please return the slip if your child would like to attend
Wednesday 1st March
Reading Breakfast
Join us in the school hall from 8:20am until 8:50am with tea, coffee and breakfast snacks available to enjoy a story with your child and find out way to help with reading at home.
All welcome!
Key Stage 2 Lunchtime Club (Optional, no booking required)
Bookmark crafts session with Mrs Dunn & the pupil librarians
Years 3,4,5,6
The Storybarn on the Road company are visiting us here at English Martyrs and we have exciting day of workshops planned focusing on reading for pleasure with a lively and exciting mix of interactive reading sessions, games and idea sharing for our pupils.
Thursday 2nd March
World Book Day
Pupils are welcome to dress up for the day as their favourite book character or one from a well-loved story and join in our activities throughout the day.
We ask that all pupils please bring £1 into school on this day for contributions towards our author and Storybarn visits.
We can’t wait to see the imaginative and exciting costumes you will have created at home, with prizes being awarded on the day for those who really stand out!
Early Years and Key Stage One
What a treat we have in-store for our pupils in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 today!
The Storybarn on the Road company are visiting us here at English Martyrs and we have exciting day of workshops planned focusing on reading for pleasure with a lively and exciting mix of interactive reading sessions, games and idea sharing for our pupils.
There will be a fairy tales session for Nursery and Reception, focusing on bringing stories to life, whilst Year 1 and 2 will experience how we communicate, discussion emotions and the importance of kindness through stories and drama.
What a fantastic day for our pupils to bring reading to life!
Friday 3rd March
Celebration Assembly
Winners announced for our story competitions in assembly and each class will tell us a snippet of what they have done during the week to mark our school book week. Parents/Carers welcome.
Big Book Swap
After school on Friday 3rd, there will be a Big Book Swap outside on the yard – bring in a book or two from home that you no longer read and are ready to pass on to someone new and swap for a book someone else has brought in, enjoy a new-to-you story over the weekend! We are relying on your donations to help make this event happen!
During the week, there will also be class reading quizzes, activities and book themed work throughout the week in our lessons and English work across all of the classes.
Our teachers will be visiting different classes this week to read an end of the day story to the class, each class gets a surprise teacher visitor, who will it be for your child’s class!
Teachers also don’t miss out on all the fun, they are encouraged to dress up too on World Book Day and each class will be decorating their classroom doors in a book sleeve theme or with photographs and other work on to celebrate the reading in their rooms. Prizes will be award for our winning class and teachers for the best decorated doors!
And finally……
On Tuesday 14th March, we have a local Poet Matt Goodfellow visiting us in school and working with our Key Stage 2 Pupils to develop their love of Poetry. In our recent reading survey, we followed on from our pupil voice response, as pupils would like to know more poets and become more confident in their poetry work. Matt Goodfellow, is a Stockport-Based poet, whom has had multiple poetry books published and will be leading on fantastic workshops for pupils to develop a love of rhyme, playing with words and poems. We can’t wait for this fantastic experience.
https://www.mattgoodfellowpoet.com/
Poetry books by Matt are available online to purchase or from Urmston Bookshop.
We will be re-launching our Twitter page later this half term so please sign up to follow us if you don’t already so that you don’t miss out on seeing photos and snippets of this fantastic week here at English Martyrs!
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Thank you for all your support at home with reading, it truly is one of the most important tools we can give to our children to succeed.