Wider Community

As a school we are actively trying to build partnerships within our school reading community. We are looking to…

Wider Community

As a school we are actively trying to build partnerships within our school reading community. We are looking to…

As a school we are actively trying to build partnerships within our school reading community. We are looking to involve more people who are connected to the school and the local community to provide further motivation and role models for our young readers.

Parent readers

Currently we have a number of fantastic parent readers who are able to give their time to support our young readers and we hope to increase this number in the future.

It is hoped that from time to time we could arrange for parents or grandparents to visit during story times at the end of school day to hear children read or share stories with small groups or individuals

If you are interested in helping our children with their reading please speak to the school office in the first instance.

Reading at home

For your children to make the necessary progress in their reading we ask that parents and carers support their children by extending their learning into their home environments and reading with them each day. Each child should have the chance to share their reading book with their adults every day. Parents should read a book to their child each day, perhaps before bed time. Children will also have the chance to read with an adult at school at least once a week.

Reading with your children takes place in 3 stages.

            -Reading to your child.

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            -Hearing your child read.

Reading to your child is an opportunity for you to read a story or a book to your children, the children will see you following the text and take in the story as you read. This gives the opportunity to model reading behaviour (tracking text from left to right, starting at the beginning of the book, turning one page at a time).

Reading with your child is an opportunity to share a book and discuss the story. At the beginning of the year this is a good chance to play games with the text, such as spotting sounds from their own names, sounds learned in phonics sessions and other familiar words. You can discuss what you think will happen next by referring to the front cover, the text and the pictures in the book. You can discuss what has happened after reading, why these things have happened and what we enjoyed about the books.

Hearing your child read will be an opportunity to explore the skills learned in school and support children with their independence as well as celebrating their achievements. This will evolve as the year progresses from spotting familiar sounds and letters, to reading words, then sentences and eventually whole books independently.

Reading ambassadors

We are passionate about books and enjoy sharing our love of stories and reading with other people! Here are some of our spectacular reading ambassadors with their buddies.

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Visitors

We have already been lucky enough to be visited by two authors this year; we look forward to welcoming several more in the coming months.

M.P.Robertson Author Visit

On 6th November children in Year R, 4, 5 and 6 were lucky enough to be visited by illustrator and author M. P. Robertson. In the morning he talked to children in Years 4, 5 and 6 about what his job as an Illustrator and author entails; how he turns his initial ideas into a finished book and then he read a few of his stories. Mark spent the rest of the day leading workshops in all the Year 5 classes on ‘How to Draw a Dragon’ and giving them top tips for being an amazing illustrator. They even got to see some of his original paintings in his portfolio. Mark also spent some time reading a few of his books to the reception children and showing them his dragon artefacts, leading them in no doubt at all that dragons really do exist. After school the children had the opportunity to buy one of his books and get it signed by him. Bishop Road would like to thank Mark for making the time to visit.

Jackie Morris Author Visit

On 9th October the Year 2 and Year 4 children were visited by award winning illustrator and author Jackie Morris. She spent time with each class, reading, drawing and giving an insight into her life and career. Both children and teachers were left mesmerised as she drew different characters from her books. After school the children had the opportunity to buy one of her books and get it signed by her. One of her many bits of advice to budding authors and illustrators in Year 2 was to “Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Whether it’s drawing, writing or anything else. I wasn’t very good at drawing when I was young but I kept practising and looking, always keep looking and studying what’s around you”. Wise words indeed! Bishop Road would like to thank Jackie for making the time to visit and also Yellow Lighted Bookshop in Tetbury for facilitating it.