News Reading

What a wonderful week of stories, poems and books across all the Pegasus schools.

What an exciting week we have been having here at Whitehorse Manor Juniors.

Yesterday, we launched our ‘Book Week’ celebrations in style at Beulah. 

Today, Miss Tye launched the opening of the Reading Café, located within the school library.

Mrs Hutchinson has long coordinated the Books for Africa scheme which sees books that are no longer being used at Atwood being sent to Africa so that children there can learn to read. 

Some parents from the Gold class have participated in ‘Bookstart’ workshops.

Last Monday and Tuesday, parents and carers with children in Year 1 and Reception were invited into school to watch how we teach their children phonics. 

Last week, children from across the academy competed in a performance poetry competition. 

Today at WHJUN we brought back the Reading Breakfast! (it had been a little while).

A while back we posted the news story below about reading and our favourite places to read. 

This half term our focus author is Mick Inkpen.  He began his career as a graphic designer and worked on a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express newspaper. 

We were very excited to have one of our parents come into school to read a familiar story to our children in her home language.

This term junior children at Whitehorse will get to take home a free book donated by the Children’s Book Project. 

At Ecclesbourne, we were delighted to welcome parents and carers to our first reading cafe of the year this week!

This morning, we successfully held our first Reading Café workshop for our Year 1 parents and carers.