We took 29 children from Y6 to see Catherine Barr at Tuffley Library. Here are some pictures.
Well done to both this week’s LKS2 star readers and our first children to reach 500 minutes in our annual reading challenge’s race to one million minutes – keep on reading!
On Friday 15th March, Year 5 visited St George’s church to explore why Christians celebrate Easter and engaged in a range of activities.
We combined our termly ‘Healthy Active’ day with Comic Relief celebrations and all children competed in an inter-house obstacle course competition. The overall winning team with 136 obstacle laps completed are Hardwicke. Well done to everyone who took part – we had great fun.
Mid dodgeball, there was the D.E.A.R bell and so we stopped and read!
It was fabulous to welcome over 200 parents and carers into school for our World Book Day whole school breakfast and parent / child reading – it was fantastic to see so many lovely moments of families reading together – a wonderful start to the day!
Our school librarian Mrs Hughes is a voracious reader who loves to welcome children and parents into our school library. Click the tabs on the right for her video series, with the first episodes introducing our school library and a focus on classic texts and picture books.
It’s been a fantastic celebration of reading this week with a special author visit and class workshops from Jess Butterworth – author of our current Y4 class text ‘When the Mountains Roared’. It was fabulous to hear the inspiration and context behind the story, as well some fabulous tips for…
All classes have thoroughly enjoyed swapping with their peers in different year groups and enjoying the chance to both read and listen to other children – a thoroughly rewarding experience for all!