News Reading

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. 

At Beulah Infants, reading is always a top priority both in school and at home!

Over the past few weeks, we have been promoting our love for reading and the importance of reading for pleasure. 

Ecclesbourne had the amazing opportunity to meet the author Banji Alexander. 

We are very excited to tell you that WHJUN have been donated over 800 books (by the Children’s Book Project) to share with the children.

Reading as the ‘golden thread’ Reading is often described as the ‘golden thread’ that must run through the entire school curriculum as reading not only unlocks a wealth of knowledge, it allows a child to access learning in all subjects and at all levels.