Abbeymead Primary School
Reading Events
At Abbeymead we want our children to leave us with a thirst for knowledge and a love of literature and reading. We place a large focus on reading for enjoyment and work hard to run events to develop this in all of our pupils.
Abbeymead's Winter Reading Challenge is now live and running until January 31st 2024
How many of the challenges can you complete before January 31st?
Tick each challenge and return your sheet to school (or digitally to Mrs Bradley on deputyhead@abbeymead.glouc.sch.uk) the week starting the 5th February and no later than Monday 12th February to be entered into the reading challenge draw. 1 challenge completed = 1 dojo and 1 ticket for the reading raffle.
Abbeymead's Summer Reading Challenge is now finished: The ABC of Reading: See below for results
In November 2022 we were part of 'The Really Wild Reading Festival' a fantastic week long reading event run by Gloucestershire Schools Partnerships.
As part of this event we were able to connect with a number or authors, in person and online, to inspire the children’s love of reading. We want our children to have a love of literature and understand how authors can inspire them in the future. What better way to encourage reading for pleasure in our school than by having a top-quality author to motivate our students about the joy of reading?
Across this week we had the privilege to host author visits from Sean Taylor and Paul Lyalls and attended an online master class with the current children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.
Reading Events from September 2022
7th November - 13th November: We hosted our Books for Bugs online reading Fair. A great event where you ordered the school 69 free books. Thank you for your support.
Week of 15th November: The really Wild Reading Festival with Author visits from Sean Taylor and Paul Lyalls. and an online Author visit with Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.
November/December: Arrival of over £1000 worth of exciting new Non-Fiction books celebrating diversity across the curriculum.
Autumn term: The Winter Reading challenge. The Reading challenge has now closed how many boxes did you tick?
Wow, we issued hundreds of raffle tickets and the winners were thrilled with their prizes, Over 40 prizes were given out including signed books, audio books, story collections, a wide range of new books and text linked prizes
Spring term 2023: Development of Non-Fiction Library to begin and Abbeymead Big Week of Reading
March 2023: Expected arrival of over £1500 worth of exciting new Fiction and Non-Fiction books
Previous Reading Events
13th October 2022: 1.45pm We hosted a family 'Come and Read' event where families could find ways of supporting their child/ren with reading at home before joining them in class for a reading sessions. See below for more details
Abbeymead's BIG WEEK of Reading 2022:
Previous Reading challenges
- Autumn/Winter reading challenge 2022
- Spring/Summer 2022 The FAbS Reading Around the World Sponsored Challenge: Now Closed
- Autumn/Winter 2021 Reading Challenge: Now closed, See the February Newsletter for an update.
- Summer Reading Challenge 2021: Read the Alphabet: Now Closed: See the October Newsletter for an update on winner.
- Spring Reading Challenge 2021: The Reading Premier League: Now Closed: A huge WELL DONE to over 300 children who took part
Stay and Read Family Events
As partners in your child's education we are keen to ensure that you feel in the best place possible to support your child. Part of this involves encouraging you to attend school reading events to support your own knowledge and to support your child's developing love of reading. Our 'Stay and Read' events are one such way. We invite family members into school for a 2 part afternoon. The first session involves joining our very knowledgeable English team or invited speakers for a presentation/workshop. These workshops are themed around reading and we use your responses to the reading surveys and parent padlets to design these. So, don't forget how valuable your contributions are.
The second part involves spending time with your child in their class enjoying listening to them read, or reading to them.
These are always popular events and we love having you into school. They have regularly become standing room only!
Stay and Read Event - July 2023
Once again we thank all of you who took the time to attend our stay and read events. Due to the popularity of the sessions we again hosted them over 2 days and were so pleased to see over 120 families (over 150 people )coming into school for the event.
We had a presentation about developing a love for reading, an update about our school approach and a talk from the library service about their current summer challenge. More details can be found on out school newsletter.
If you weren't able to make it on this occasion then please check out the resources below to access the family presentation.
Parent reading workshop EYFS and KS1 (Awaiting upload)
Parent Reading workshop KS2 (Awaiting upload)
Stay and Read Event - March 2023
Another amazing turnout! Nearly 200 parents came to the workshop and stay and read event over the 1st and 2nd March. We are so lucky to have such committed families at Abbeymead.
If you weren't able to make it on this occasion then please check out the resources below to access the family presentation and handouts:
Parent Reading Workshop KS1 2.3.23
Parent Reading Workshop KS2 1.3.23
Stay and Read Event - October 2022
What a turn out; we needed more chairs! It was great to see so many of you there (over 110 of you) and the children really enjoyed having you all to stay and read! If you weren't able to make it on this occasion then please check out the resources below to access the family presentation and handouts:
Fluency and Reading Workshop 14.10.22.pdf
KS1 Adult Guide to Reading Fluency.pdf
KS2 Parent Guide to Reading Fluency.pdf
