The Attic: Blog items
Year 4- Congratulations Albie!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm
Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:58am
WOW!! What a great day so far for World Book Day. A great effort by all!! We did a live lesson, wrote down what we came as, went to The Attic and enjoyed talking about the characters we had come to school as.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:32pm
Our new librararians have been appointed!📚
They recently visited The Attic for the first time and they were blown away!😮 Not only did they get to explore the magical world of books, but they also had the chance to chat about their new role and how they can make our school library even better!🙌🏼 What's even more exciting is that the National Literacy Trust in Blackpool, in partnership with World of Stories, has generously donated some new books to our library!📖
#NewLibrarians #WorldOfStories #BookLovers #SchoolLibraryGoals
Reception National Storytellying Week
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 10:22am
During National Storytelling Week Reception had a visitor from the National Literacy Trust who brought lots of loves stories to share with the children. We enjoyed going up to our school library 'The Attic' to listen to the stories and then use the puppets to retell tell them in our own words. What a lovely time everyone had.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 7:59am
Year 2 - Welcome to Bailey's Book Club
Date: 6th Sep 2023 @ 2:51pm
Today we welcomed Bailey and her owner Vincent to our school for the first session of Bailey's Book Club in Year 2. Several children had some one to one time reading to Vincent and Bailey the dog, Bailey also came into class and Vincent read a story about a Puppy to the children. Bailey gave out some Word of Week Certificates to the readers and then we had a bit of fun with Bailey doing some tricks with the bubbles!
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 4:41pm
Over the last few weeks the children in Year 3 have been attending Little Big Book Club. We have watched an interview from authors, made our own books, created a recipe for a book and shared and discussed what we have enjoyed. The children and parents have thoroughly enjoyed this process and have learnt ways to talk about and appreciate books.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:52pm
In Year Three, we have joined the ‘Little Big Book Club’ scheme in which children were given 5 amazing books from ‘Amazing facts every 7-year-old needs to know’ and ‘Einstein the Penguin’. We looked at how children and parents could read together and develop a shared love for reading!
Reception celebrate World Book Day
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 12:29pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Reception have celebrated World Book Day. The children have all dressed up as characters from some of their favourite books and all looked incredible- thank you for all the effort you have gone to! We had a special assembly where we were visited by an author Shane Hegarty. When we returned to class we enjoyed listening to some of our favourite stories, making book marks, role playing in our costumes and drawing and paint our favourite book characters. What a great day we had!
Date: 7th Jun 2021 @ 3:21pm
This half term in Reception we are going to be focusing heavily on reading to make sure we are ready for year one. Our classroom areas have been flooded with different reading challenges giving us lots of opportunities to apply the knowledge and skills we have learnt in our phonics lessons. We are currently recapping our phase 3 diagraphs to ensure we can recognise them out of context when we are reading our reading books. Have a look at some of the excited reading challenges we have been completing.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:19pm
Today we enjoyed learning about Anthony Horowitz's reading experiences and then had 10 minutes in class reading our own books! It was relaxing but we also practised our reading skills!
National Reading Champions Quiz
Date: 4th May 2021 @ 5:18pm
Today, 4 of our Year 6 children took part in the North West regional heat of the very first National Reading Champions Quiz. The quiz aims to raise the profile of reading with pupils across the country and to test their knowledge of a wide range of books. The quiz consisted of 10 different rounds and included rounds such as villains in books, identifying a novel from the first or last line and anagrams of characters/books. Our pupils were a credit to Boundary and they showed determination and resilience throughout the morning. The quiz lasted for over 2 and a half hours and the children were fully engaged and really worked as a team to try and answer the questions. Although we didn't finish in the top 3, we did manage to answer a lot of the questions correctly and we were only 10 marks away from the school who finished in first place. We look forward to taking part in more experiences like this and with a wider range of pupils.
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 8:18pm
What a fantastic day we have had today! We were so excited coming into class this morning. We couldn't wait to see what all our friends were dressed as. Our classes were made up of Marry Poppins, Harry Potters, Gangster Granny, Cat in the Hats, Ron Weasley, Gruffalos, Peter Rabbit, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood and many more.
We talked about who we had come dressed as, we completed a book review and we also enjoyed re-designing a book front cover for a book that had been read to us with the cover hidden. There were some great designs and a couple even looked like the real thing!
The overarching theme of the day was to share stories .... so we read stories as class, on our own and to our friends. We also enjoyed a visit to the library in our costumes where we all received a book.
It's not all over today, we love reading and we ready every day at school! .... Tomorrow we have Mrs. G Teepee Tales coming in to share more stories with us! The excitement and our love for books never ends!
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Dr. Seuss.
Guided Reading Parents Workshop
Date: 25th Nov 2019 @ 11:46am
Year 2 enjoyed having their parents visit this morning to support their reading skills. Parents were given useful tips to help their children develop their reading skills at home such as predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising pieces of texts.The children did a great job showing off their superb reading skills. Remember reading as often as possible will develop your child's reading fluency and overall understanding of texts which is a key aspect of achieving end of year 2 expectations.
Date: 1st Oct 2019 @ 6:48pm
Today the Book Bus came to visit. Each class had a 20 minute slot to visit the bus and peruse the shelves!! Children were invited to bring £10 so they could buy a book or two. As a school we will receive a percentage of what we made on the day - we will then be able to buy more new books for the school.
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 9:23am
Our first trip to the library was very exciting! We walked to @Grange dodging the puddles along the way as it was a very wet day! When we arrived at the library we couldn't wait to choose a book to look at. There were lego books, princess books, robot books and one of our favourite books 'We're going on a bear hunt". We spent some time looking at the books before Miss James read us a story. It was about a little boy who told lies - we knew this was something we should not do and if the little boy was in our class he would not have an always badge!
