Getting the Whole Family Involved!
This year we will be holding a number of family reading mornings. As a school, we believe support from home plays a vital part in ensuring that your child is a happy and confident reader and writer. Reading with your child and as a family is a special time, where you can foster a love for reading and books that can last a lifetime! These mornings in school will provide you with the opportunity to read with your child(ren) and their friends. We will always provide a wide range of books for you to choose from. But remember, you can also bring your own favourite book(s) from home to share with your child(ren).
Our dates for this year can be found on the list of key dates sent out in September and on the newsletters. Reminders about or changes to any of these dates will be communicated to you. All of our Family Reading Mornings start at 9:15am and end at around 10am. Thank you.
Family Reading Morning 20th March 2024
Our ‘Family Reading Morning’ was a huge success once again and everyone seemed have a fantastic morning sharing books and stories! As we know, reading is so important to all areas of learning and it can be a really special time to spend with loved ones too. We have another reading morning coming up before the end of the summer term, so be on the lookout for the date – to be confirmed! Thank you all again for making the morning so special.
Family Reading Morning – 20th July
Thank you to everyone who supported our final ‘Family Reading Morning’ of the academic year! It is always such a lovely morning and always well supported by our wider school family. The children had a wonderful time sharing their favourite books, showing their very best reading to their loved ones and simply enjoying and talking about books! As we all know, reading is fundamental to all learning and creating lifelong readers is something we pride ourselves on here at St. Augustine’s! We very much look forward to planning the dates for next year’s reading mornings and we will share the dates with you as soon as we have them. Thank you all for your continued support.
14th December 2022
Our Christmas Reading Morning was a huge success this term! Thank you very much to everyone who attended.
Our Family Reading Morning 11th February 2022
Our ‘Family Reading Morning’ was a huge success and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the time to just sit enjoy the wonder of books! We have really missed inviting our parents and relatives into school in recent times, to share our classrooms and learning with them, so it was fantastic to see so many loved ones at school this morning – thank you to everyone! Reading is so important to all learning, both during and beyond our school years and this morning was a way of showing the children that reading can be a really special time to spend with loved ones too. We have another reading morning coming up before Easter, so be on the lookout for the date – to be confirmed! Thank you all again for making the morning so special.
This year, we have also asked the children and their friends and family to take part in our ‘Sponsored Read’! As a school, we believe we need to provide the highest quality resources to allow our children to flourish as young readers. This includes reading books that link to the child’s stage in phonics and books that allow our children to apply their phonic and spelling knowledge to a range of texts. We also want to provide a range of books that allow for richer reading experiences at school and at home.
Our sponsored read ran for two weeks and our second family reading morning acted as the grande finale! The children were tasked with setting themselves a ‘reading challenge’ and asking their friends, family and whoever wanted to take part if they would sponsor them to take on and smash their challenge. The children had a sponsorship form and a reading log to fill in with their parents to show how they had achieved their goal. Over two weeks, we came together as a school and proved that anything is possible as we raised an eye-watering £450 (at the last count!)! This will go an awful long way in funding new books for our already fantastic reading scheme – so a huge thank you to all of you that got involved!
We also take part in World Book Day every year and we ask everyone in school (children and adults alike!) to come to school dressed as their favourite book characters. Each child takes home a book voucher, which entitles them to £1 off a brand new book, a sticker to show they were involved in the world’s biggest celebration of books! It is always a fantastic day to show our love for books and for reading by celebrating all types of text and their authors: poetry, non-fiction, adventure tales, spooky tales, nursery rhymes, traditional tales, comics, mystery, comedy, the classics and everything in between!
This year due to some children being at home for World Book Day, our teachers have recorded some videos to share of their favourite stories!
