Is your school doing something for National Year of Reading? If so, we would love to hear about it. We will post news and information here.
Is your school doing something for National Year of Reading? If so, we would love to hear about it. We will post news and information here.
Find out more from Glazebury CE who are collecting jokes from everyone in school to create a school joke book.
Teams from Birchwood and Lymm High schools have reached the final of the Cheshire Book Quiz 2008. Congratulations to them. The final is in Chester on Wednesday 21st May. Our Warrington schools will be competing against Merchant Taylor’s Girls’ School and Queen’s Park High. Watch this space for the announcement of the winner.
Well done to teams from Bridgewater, Great Sankey, St Gregory’s and Sir Thomas Boteler who also achieved good scores.
Here are some of the ways Birchwood High School is promoting the National Year of Reading
* Book of the Month display for KS3 and KS4 – advertised on plasma screen, through newsletter and in displays around school and in the library
* One assembly per month based on a book theme
* Monthly National Year of Reading newsletter to be sent home to parents to recommend books and promote events and competitions
* Books to borrow in reception
* Library loyalty cards
* Reading groups for Y10 and Y11 learners and adults and weekly Book Club for years 7-9
* Book Fair (April)
* Book Week (October)
* Beverley Naidoo visit and Tom Palmer football themed activity (June)
* Author visit
* Readathon (Autumn Term)
Ideas for promoting the National Year of Reading from Warrington School Librarians
- Library Loyalty Cards which are stamped when a pupil returns a book. Rewards given depending on number of stamps.
- Librarians and teachers dress up as characters from books
- Cross Curricular links. Each department in school commits to promoting the NYR through the monthly themes
- A rolling programme of pupil registration taking place in library to encourage them to borrow books
- Reading activities promoted via assembles and plasma screen.
- Ann Cowshill from the Schools’ Library Service has offered to talk to pupils about books and libraries in assembly
- Take photographs of staff and give a cryptic clue about their favourite book
- An electronic notice board outside library /LRC to promote events (Cost around £100 – ring Jenny, LRC manager at Great Sankey for details)
Sarah Ledger from Woolston High School has teamed up with Karen Poolton from Woolston library to organise joint events between the library and school.
Watch this space for further details.
Helen McEvoy from Penketh High School has put together ideas for promoting reading in line with the monthly themes. You can down load them from our National Year of Reading Page on http://www.wgfl.org.uk. Follow the National Year of Reading link and then scroll down and click on “monthly themes”
English teachers at William Beamont show the Warrington NYR screensaver on their whiteboards as pupils enter the room. The screensaver will soon appear on the screen in the school reception area.
Sarah Ledger from Woolston High School has teamed up with Karen Poolton from Woolston Library on Holes Lane to offer Y11 pupils an alternative place to study and revise.
A group of Y9 boys from Wooslton High School will soon be taking part in a literacy / PE project about the olympics. The sessions will take place at the library on Holes Lane.
In connection with the May National Year of Reading theme: Mind and Body, pupils at St Gregory’s High School have been using the library to carry out research in their Food Technology lessons. They have read magazines, website, books and newspapers to find out information about being healthy.
In conjunction with the National Year of Reading theme for May of Mind and Body, the Healthy Schools Team asked pupils to design a bookmark which promoted the benefits of living and working in a smoke-free environment. There were over 600 entries to the competition and the winner from each keystage received a book token and their winner entry will be professionally produced and distributed to schools, children’s centres and health care settings.
Every entrant’s bookmark was laminated and returned with a letter of encouragement asking them to use the bookmark at home for reading and also to share the health messages with their parents – thus promoting smoke free homes and reading.
BOOK START DADS
Read the case study of how Warrington’s Beaches Children’s Centre encouraged Dads to read with their children at http://www.bookstartdads.org.uk/supportingresources
Year 6 transition activity. On their visit to Bridgewater this week, all Y6 pupils will be asked to take a photograph over the summer, of themselves or a member of their family reading and bring it to their new school in September to form a display and prompt conversations about reading.
Home Learning
Ailsa Harrigan has produced a home learning booklet for Year 7 pupils at Padgate which encourages them to read a variety of texts and complete short tasks over the term. Ailsa is willing to share this with other schools, if you would like a copy then please contact me on jhudson@warrington.gov.uk