Reading at St Anne's

Our vision for reading

Our aim at St Anne's is to create curious and excitable life-long readers who have the opportunity to delve into new worlds, exploring various genres and writing styles. We want our children to see themselves as readers and also as authors, as we each have a story to tell. We have been spending time developing our school library as we prepare for the next part of our reading adventure, starting our reading passports and reading our way across the globe! Our reading ambassadors have been helping to rehome our old books to make space for the new.

Reading Partnerships

We read with children from another class once a week. We love this special shared time as we can learn new things and make new friends.

Stay and Read at School

We have enjoyed inviting our families in to read with us during school time and sharing some of our favourite stories. We want to share our reading enjoyment with those we love and to make sure we are reading at school but also at home.

Visiting our local libraries, authors and illustrators

Our children visit Manchester Central Library and take part in activities, celebrations and author/illustrator meet and greets. This helps them to envision themselves as a storyteller/poet in the outside world and beyond school and to experience the many joys that reading can bring to the community.

Choosing a book with my child…

Dear families,

We are thrilled to see so many children reading both in school and at home this year and have been promoting a love of reading at St. Anne’s this half term. We now have a very special “Netflix” inspired display in the corridors to help your children see recommended reads and pick out books and will be presenting special reading certificates in the final celebration assembly of each term.

However, we appreciate it can be difficult when choosing a book with your child at home, when visiting libraries or book shops, so I wanted to point you in the direction of Books for Topics. This website suggests books by age group, topic your child is interested in, lesson, season etc. It also suggests Book of the Month, new releases, Top-Notch Non-fiction and children’s magazines.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/

I hope this website can be useful to you when choosing books and stories to share with your children and that we can continue to build a community of curious and imaginative readers. We know that reading transpires directly into our writing too, developing our vocabulary and creativity and we are aiming to see a love of reading evident in the writing we produce together too.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can support you when reading together with your children.

Kind regards,

Miss Ames