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English - Reading Chatter

25-09-2025
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Reading milkshakes in Year 6

Year 6 have been challenged with reading a certain about of pages each week in their guided read and reading for pleasure books. If they achieve that total they will either received a milkshake or free time. If they read with their Parents/Carers, they also receive a biscuit. Here are our first winners.

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18-11-2025
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17.11.25 – Reading – Librarians

During their lunchtime club today the school librarians have begun to create bookmarks. The idea behind this is to have bookmarks for children to take and use while using the library. Take a look at some of the ones we have competed below.

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16-01-2026
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16.01.2026 – The Evil Pea – Literacy

This week our focus book has been Supertato. The Evil Pea has escaped in Sunflower class, he stole our number 3! The children have made traps, investigated and tried to capture the Evil Pea.

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02-02-2026
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02.02.2026 – Reading week – Reading

This week, EYFS have enjoyed having Year 6 children come read to us. We chose some of our favourite stories and had new readers everyday.

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03-02-2026
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03.02.26 – National Storytelling Week – Annemarie Anang

Year 2 really enjoyed listening to the story of Nefertiti today. They were making different sounds for being nervous and being scared. We also did some singing too.

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03-02-2026
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02.02.26 – Reading – National Story Telling Week

Daffodil class have had a fantastic morning listening to author Annemarie Anyang share her story Nefertiti through the magic of storytelling and music.

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23-02-2026
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23.02.26 – English – Immerse

We returned to class today to discover an abandoned suitcase. We asked lots of questions and were extremely intrigued by the contents of the suitcase. We began to make predictions to who it might belong to and what this terms texts could be about.

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02-03-2026
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02.03.26 – English – Michael Rosen Live Lesson

Today year 4 took part in the live lesson ran by the British Library. We had the pleasure of listening to Michael Rosen. Tell us wonderful food stories while an illustrator drew live images to match each part.

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03-03-2026
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02.03.26 -Reading – World Book Day – Goldilocs

This morning, we had a lovely session listening to the book Goldilocs by Ella McLeod. Then we watched as the illustration was demonstrated by Rochelle Falconer, where we followed her instructions to draw our own bear.

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04-03-2026
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04.03.26- Reading- World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day, we have watched a video by the British Library. We listened to Michael Rosen read a story around food, whilst an illustrator drew some images alongside it. As we were listening, we had a go at drawing our own illustrations based on food. What a wonderful lesson we had!

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05-03-2026
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05.3.26 World Book Day

Look how fantastic Daffodil class look dressed as characters from their favourite books. Thank you to all the families for taking part in this wonderful event to celebrate the year of reading.📚

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05-03-2026
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05.03.2026 World Book Day 2026

We’ve had a wonderful morning celebrating the joy of reading. The children spent time decorating their own bookmarks and discussing their favourite books. We finished the morning with some relaxing reading for pleasure time – a perfect way to enjoy the magic of books! 📚

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05-03-2026
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05.03.26 – Reading – World book day

In year six, we enjoyed our last World book day at St Finbar’s. We have enjoyed a live stream and trip to our wonderful school library. We have created our own stories and book monster bookmarks. Don’t they look fabulous in their costumes!

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05-03-2026
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05.3.26 World Book Day

Daffodil class were treated to a visit from our Year 6 Rose class. They read some fantastic books and shared their love of reading.

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05-03-2026
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05.3.26 World Book Day – Author Event

This afternoon year 1 took part in a great author event to help celebrate our love of reading. We listened to the story ‘Once upon a remix: Meet Goldilocs’, a fairytale with a twist by author Ella McLeod and learnt how to draw a bear with illustrator Rochelle Falconer.

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05-03-2026
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05.03.26 – Reading – World Book Day

We have had lots of fun today and our costumes were amazing! We have written book reviews for the school library. We have designed world book day tokens to enter the competition for next years voucher designs and even spent some time in the library.

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05-03-2026
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05.03.26 – Reading – World Book Day

Year 2 had a lovely World Book Day. We got all dressed up and we read our favourite stories. We read 2 other books today, The Gruffalo and The Day the Crayons Quit. Don’t they all look amazing!

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05-03-2026
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05.03.26 – World book day – Reading Buddies

During world book day, Year 6 buddied up with their little friends in Nursery, Reception and Year 1 for some reading for pleasure. Year six were really thinking about how they could confidently read and share their love of reading with the littlest learners of St Finbar’s.

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