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Reading
Reading Culture
At St Barnabas, we believe that creating a reading culture is vital to all children’s development. Becoming a lifelong reader gives children the best possible start in life.
At St Barnabas we champion reading. We share high quality books with children throughout the curriculum – not just in reading lessons. Books are shared in whole school Collective Worships to ensure children at St Barnabas have stories they can discover, share and enjoy together.
St Barnabas Reading Spine
The St Barnabas Reading Spine has been specifically designed to ensure every child at St Barnabas sees themselves in a book and can learn about others through a book. The Reading Spine sits separately to our Book Banding system and are for shared reading with an adult to promote a love of reading. Therefore, the books on the spine may not be at your child’s reading level but will have themes and storylines appropriately matched to their age. The St Barnabas Reading Spine ensures each year group has a range of text types focusing on Doug Lemov’s ‘Five Plagues of Reading’ alongside a range of diverse texts and poetry.
If you would like to contribute to our school library, donations from the Amazon Wishlist are gratefully received and loved by the children at St Barnabas. https://www.amazon.co.uk/stbarnabas/wishlist/
Non-Fiction Reading Spine
At St Barnabas, we fully promote reading throughout the curriculum. In order to achieve this, we have created Non-Fiction Reading Spines for each year group containing a list of books children can acquire and embed the knowledge taught through the wider curriculum. Geography, history, science and RE lessons are supported by the books in the non-fiction reading spine. Research suggests that children learn and remember more when it is taught through an inspiring text.
Download: St Barnabas Reading Handbook
We Love Reading!
Term 1 Reading Champions
Our fantastic reading champions from Term 1 enjoying their hot chocolate and brownies at the Warmley Waiting Room Cafe. Well done Team St B – keep reading!
New Librarians
Our new year 6 librarians are looking forward to spreading the joy of reading throughout St B!
The Travelling Book Fair
A huge thank you to everyone who visited the Travelling Book Fair. We raised over £700 to spend on new books for the library!
World Book Day
We had an amazing day celebrating books! The children paraded their costumes in Praise Assembly and a winner from each class was chosen. Each class took part in shared reading with another class and Mrs Dean set the bell off at different times throughout the day for us to ‘drop everything and read’.
Birthday Books
Our first birthday book donations! The school loved wishing both children a very happy birthday in Praise Assembly.
A book filled Saturday!
Miss Gough, Miss Sheppard and Mrs Guy loved spending the day with our ticket winners from Y4, 5 & 6!
We took the bus to Bath to the Children’s Literature Festival. We listened to a brilliant talk by authors Katie & Kevin Tsang from the Dragon Realm series. They shared how they find inspiration for writing and even let us take part in designing a new dragon!
We also had an amazing time in Mr B’s Emporium where we had a book shopping spree. We bought some signed books for the library amongst some others which we think will be well loved.
Reading on Camp!
A lunch break on Dartmoor meant one thing ‘reading with a view’!