To celebrate and encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we will be running a Reading Challenge Week from Monday 26th September to Friday 30th September. This will involve lots of fun activities in school, and also some ways to get involved at home. There will be prizes for children who read lots throughout the week.
As part of this week, we will be running ”Lunchtime Readathons” in school. The children will be invited to come to Miss Bibi’s classroom (Key Stage 1) or Mrs Branford’s classroom (Key Stage 2) to read at lunchtime.We will record the number of children who attend from each class, and also the number of minutes that they have read for. Classes with lots of minutes of reading will earn class treats.
We are also giving children the option to take part in a sponsored read. This is completely optional – there is absolutely no pressure to take part! For those children who would like to join in, the aim is to read as many minutes as they can, and then get sponsors to support them in their challenge. A copy of the relevant sponsor sheets and recording logs have been sent home. All of the money raised will go towards brand new books for our school.
The younger children might like to take part in the listening challenge instead. This involves the children listening to a story read by a grown up. A listening log has been sent home so that children can record how many minutes of listening they have done!
To conclude our Reading Challenge Week we will have a Pyjama Day on Friday 30th September. The children can come to school in their pyjamas, for a fun-filled day of reading and relaxing! There is no charge for this, and wearing pyjamas is also optional.
Good Luck! ?
