Congratulations to our Readers of the Month for December.
Year 1- Connor Sloan, Lauren Calder and Molly Mews
Year 2- Alisha Dickinson, Eva Ames and Sophie Railton
Year 3- Elizabeth Emms, Abbey Nichols and Will Mcardle
Year 4- Joshua Wright, Georgie Lane and Faith Brown
Year 5- William Calcutt, Lilly-Rose Mitchell and Freya New
Year 6- Sydney Thompson, Jasmine Slater and Dylan Nichol
Keep up the hard work!
Congratulations to our Readers of the Month for November.
Year 1- Abbie McCrindle, Mac Henderson and Erin Kelly
Year 2- Lilly Storey, Louis Cox and Ava Rylance
Year 3- Asmin Ivanov, Emily-Rose James and Jude Russell
Year 4- Roman Gray, Ella McCluskey and Erin Tait
Year 5- Jaiden Mackay, Rylan Harrison and Jack Riddle
Year 6- Pheobe Ofosu, Calem Mclean and Lexi Lowe
Keep up the hard work!
Well done to the children who participated in November’s Reading Challenge.
Children in EYFS made a den to share a book in.
Children in Key Stage 1 read under the covers with a torch.
Children in Key Stage 2 read to a sibling or someone who lives in their house.
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A huge congratulations to Phoebe Ofosu and Joe Roberts in Y6F for being the first children in the school to achieve AR awards this year. Phoebe has become our first Word Millionaire and has read over 1,000,000 words since September and Joe has become our first half-millionaire by reading over 500,000 words. Joe is also now extremely close to becoming a Word Millionaire.
Both children have shown such dedication to their reading this year and I love to hear about the novels they’re reading and see their enthusiasm.
Who will be next to achieve an AR award?
Well done to the children who participated in October’s Reading Challenge.
Children in EYFS shared a book about their favourite TV character.
Children in Key Stage 1 read aloud to their pet or favourite soft toy.
Children in Key Stage 2 read a magazine or a news article.
To celebrate the launch of this years Summer Reading challenge, the children sent us their best Silly faces! We loved seeing them and it certainly brought a smile to our face, just what everyone needs during these times. Thank you to everyone and well done for signing up!
We have seen some fantastic pictures that our children have drawn to enter The Ickabog Illustration Competition.
J.K. Rowling is publishing an original story, The Ickabog (the “Story”), online (https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story) in instalments over seven weeks, and is inviting children to help her by illustrating the Story.
A new instalment of the Story and illustration themes to go with it will be revealed daily, Monday to Friday, throughout the course of the seven weeks, so do stay tuned.
34 winning illustrations will be selected to bring the serialised story to the printed page when it is published in full, which is intended for November 2020.
Entries are open, and the competition will close at 6pm BST on Friday 17th July 2020.
We love seeing children reading and enjoying a fantastic story. Our daily challenge was to see everyone doing this but in an unusual place. Which do you think is the most unusual?
Summer Reading Challenge 2020
The Summer Reading Challenge, presented by The Reading Agency is delivered in partnership with public libraries and funded by Arts Council England. Children are encouraged to read any books of their choice during the summer holidays (we recommend at least six) with collectable incentives and rewards, plus a certificate for every child who completes the Challenge. Usually, the Challenge takes place in public libraries across the country. This year, with the disruption caused by Covid-19 and the impact of social distancing on schools and public libraries, the all-new digital Summer Reading Challenge is launching earlier than usual – today!
The theme for the Challenge is “Silly Squad”- a celebration of funny books, happiness and laughter, featuring bespoke artwork from award-winning children’s author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson.
Today- Friday 5th June there will be a whole host of virtual events with guest celebrities and authors to mark the launch of the digital Challenge on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SummerReadingChallengeUK from 4 to 7pm.
The website https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ will be updated tomorrow and will include new School and Home Zones. The website is free to access and a place for children to rate and review their books and work towards their reading goal. It will also feature video content, games, quizzes and digital and downloadable activities to incentivise and encourage children and their families to take part in the Challenge at home.
We would love as many of you to be involved as possible and cant wait to see your silly squad pictures to celebrate the the launch!
*Remember there are lots of websites/ apps which allow you to access books for free. Have a look at https://hartonprimary.co.uk/reading-at-harton/ for more information!
Some exciting news for J.K. Rowling fans! During lockdown, J.K. Rowling – the world famous author of the Harry Potter novels – has written and is releasing a new story The Ickabog in free instalments on the website tagged in this post. https://www.theickabog.com/home/
Every day, she will be making suggestions for what you might like to draw. You can enter the official competition being run by J.K Rowling’s publishers, for the chance to have your artwork included in a printed version of the book due out later this year.
Get creative and get drawing! Please also send us some of your wonderful illustrations. We can’t wait to see them.
