This term, we have continued to visit Glendale to read to some of the residents. Our reading buddies kindly give up some of their free time to listen to our children read. The reading activities are enjoyed by everyone.

Today, our Year 6 class represented us in an English competition against some other local schools and we won! The children impressed the judges not only with some stunning fluent reading but their outstanding spelling of rehearsed and unseen words. The rest of the class supported their classmates and it was a lovely way to spend the afternoon. Well done Year 6- you are amazing!

Last week, to celebrate World Book Day, sixty of our children took part in our Hat Competition. It was wonderful to see how much care, time and creativity had gone into each and every hat. The entries showed fantastic effort from the children, with each one designing a unique hat inspired by a favourite story or book character. Today we announced the winners and took time during our celebration worship to recognise and celebrate every single hat. The display was truly breath-

Ducklings and their Year 5 buddies enjoyed a special early morning trip to Waterstones to exchange their book vouchers for a brand new book. There were so many wonderful titles to choose from, and it was delightful listening to the conversations about books as the Year 5s helped their Duckling buddies choose something they would really enjoy. It was also lovely to hear so many children speaking politely with the staff members, remembering their “please” and “thank you” as the

A big thank you to everyone who provided costumes and props for your children on World Book Day.

What a super World Book Day it has been! The imagination and creativity with all the costumes has been outstanding so a huge thank you to the grown ups who have helped. We had a range of words including: rapper, sleepy, buckle, discombobulated wizard and many more! We created book tokens as part of a competition, took a trip to the bookshop with our wonderful buddies and had lots of fun at an escape room in the school hall. A huge thank you again for providing your child with

Take a look at all our fantastic costumes!!

What a fantastic World Book Day we have had! We walked up to WH Smith with our buddies and carefully selected a book. The variety was very good and they each chose something that they are very excited to read. We came back to school and shared our new books. It was so nice to be able to spend time with our buddies again!