School Library

6th April 2020P Mullea

Over the past year we have been trying hard to improve the School Library which was in need of a little TLC. In September we were lucky enough to be selected to take part in Puffin World of Stories to help us improve our school Library space.

What is Puffin World of Stories?

Puffin World of Stories is jointly delivered by the National Literacy Trust, an independent literacy charity, and Puffin, the UK’s leading children’s publisher. Puffin World of Stories has provided us with training for staff and resources to help us champion reading for pleasure and creativity in our school.

As well as giving us lots of tips and advice, Puffin World of Stories has sent us a whopping 300 Free books for our school library!

The delivery arrived in school and I cant wait to see these wonderful books added to our shelves soon for the children to enjoy. If you look carefully below you might spot a sneaky peak at some of our new books…

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Reading at Harton

6th April 2020D Fawkes

There are a wealth of resources available online to continue to support all of our children with their reading during school closures. Please use the following links.

Oxford Owl

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Create your own free account and you can browse a wide range of their books in ebook and audiobook version. You can select books by your child’s age range. This is also a reading scheme we use in school.

Collins Big Cat e-books and worksheets

https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks

This gives a parent login and then you can browse their available ebooks and there are related printable worksheets linked to most books. This is also a reading scheme we use in school.

 

Audible

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

The amazon company – audible are now providing free audiobooks for the duration of the school closures. All stories are free to stream on desktop computers, laptops, phones or tablets.

 

BorrowBox

This is an app which can be downloaded onto a phone or tablet and used if you have a library membership where you can access a wide range of ebooks and audiobooks.

Flashback Friday- Y1M Visit The Word!

3rd April 2020P Mullea

On Monday 16th March, Y1M visited The Word. The children were very excited to explore the library because they just LOVE reading!

When we arrived, we got to go into the story room. Jolene our Librarian read us a brilliant story called “Silly Billy” by Anthony Browne.

This story is about a little boy has so many worries he can’t sleep at night. At first he feels really silly for being worried but when he talks to his Grandmother she makes him feel better. She tells Billy that everyone has worries and gives him some worry dolls to share his worries with. Telling the worry dolls his worries helps Billy to sleep at night.

After reading the story the class designed and named their own worry dolls and thought about any worries they might have.

Before leaving the library we also had a chance to explore the shelves… we loved looking at all the new books and some of the children became members, borrowing books to take home.

 

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We love reading!

1st April 2020L Moore

In YRM, we love reading and listening to different stories. The children like to bring their favourite stories into school to share at home time. The reading corner is very popular and the children enjoy exploring books.

We love to read!

31st March 2020Ms A Emmerson

In Y2E we loved celebrating World Book Day! We love sharing books so enjoyed reading our favourite stories with our friends and completing inference activities about Miss Emmerson’s fancy dress character, Peter Rabbit!

National Literacy Trust- Family Zone resources for parents and carers

27th March 2020P Mullea

Morning everyone,

We hope that you are well and finding things to keep you busy during these unusual times.

We wanted to share with you all a fantastic resource created by The National Literacy Trust for families to support with home learning. As Harton Primary is a ‘Puffin World of Stories’ school, we have been invited to use The Family Zone. This website has been designed with you in mind and gives a range of activity suggestions, online resources and things to keep your children busy (and learning).

Simply follow the link  below and select the age range of you child to find out more!

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/

 

 

World Book Day!

12th March 2020J Devlin

Y3 had a fabulous day for world book day and enjoyed lots of book related activities. We particularly enjoyed helping Wally use prepositions to find his friends and special items!

We then moved onto looking at lots of different vocabulary and thought about how we could group words together – we can up with nouns, verbs, prepositions and then themes of words. For example Wally gave us a list and we had to find the odd one out.
Can you find the odd one out and tell us why?

Reading stories to support Personal Development

12th March 2020S Robson

Some of our pupils chose stories about kindness and diversity this World Book Day. ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today?’ and ‘Red – a Crayon’s Story’ are excellent books on these topics. We have lots of story packs to support PSHE lessons, themed days, assemblies, or impromptu discussions.