World Book Day 2023
We have loved to see the children in their wonderful outfits, celebrating their favourite books and authors for World Book Day. All of the children have completed a range of book related activities in school.
Ella in Year 6 said she enjoys World Book Day. “I love reading and it’s fun to be the characters you love for the day”.
Sadie in Year 4 said she enjoys World Book Day because she loves reading and it’s a day all about celebrating reading.
Graphic novels are longer stories written and illustrated in the style of a comic, combining a sequence of engaging visual elements that drive the plot, coupled with short pockets of text in the form of captions and dialogue. The format has seen a burst in popularity in recent years and we have recently ordered a wealth of new graphic novels for both of our Accelerated Reader libraries for our children to enjoy in school and at home.
Check out these BooksforTopics links with recommended texts for 7-9 year olds and 9-11 year olds.
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/literacy-reading/graphic-novels-lower-ks2/
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/literacy-reading/graphic-novels-upper-ks2/
This month the staff were looking out for children who have made great progress in their reading but also who work well with others.
In Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 the children take part in partner work when reading stories. They help friends read tricky words and have shown themselves to be great team players.
In years 3, 4, 5 and 6 staff were really pleased to see how the children can support each other with reading and celebrate others achievements. They have made AMAZING progress too!
A special mention to Tyler in Y4 who has made 18months progress in his AR reading age in the last half term and to Maxwell In Y6 who has made 2 years and 4 months progress!
What an achievement!
We are so proud of you all and love to see so many of you enjoying reading. We hope you enjoy your prizes.
Next Month teachers will be keeping a close eye on the children who use Accelerated Reader, to see how well they perform in quizes and improve their reading. Staff will choose a Reader of the Month who shows a great commitment and attitude to their reading, using AR and when sharing books.
Yesterday, Year 2 completed their RE topic on the importance and symbolism of light at Christmas by making Christingles.
Looking for good books as Christmas presents for children?
Books for Topics have put together a list of recommended books to give to primary school aged children this year.
Well done to all of the children who took part in our Odd Socks Competition 2022.
A special well done to our winners.
Check out the photos of some of our winners!
Today we have celebrated Odd Socks Day.
Odd Socks Day provides an opportunity to have fun, be yourself, and spread awareness of the core values Anti-Bullying Week promotes.
We all joined Andy and the Odd Socks for a dance and a sing along.
Check out some of our Odd Socks photos!
On Monday afternoons this half term, Y2W have been enjoying music lessons playing the glockenspiel with Mr Bird. They have been learning about rhythm, while playing keys and chords.
This year Hadrian’s Wall celebrates it’s 1900th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, we have created our very own ‘Hadrian’s Wall at Harton’. Every class from Nursery to Year 6, have been learning about Hadrian’s Wall. The children used what they had discovered to write a fact about the wall on a brick which we used to make our enormous wall!
The children in Y2M have been working extremely hard this half term and the staff are all so impressed with their excellent effort, especially when completing the KS1 SATS. To celebrate the end of the SATS we had a little extra ‘golden’ morning of fun, we got to enjoy the sunshine and play outside, the children were even treated to an ice pop!
We had lots of fun after SATS preparing for our Jubilee celebrations. We loved welcoming our parents into class to help us decorate our Jubilee T-shirts. A huge thank you to everyone for attending and for all your hard work, we have some very talented parents and children of course! We were so excited to share our special song for The Queen with you as well. We hope you enjoyed it.
