Reading For Pleasure

Dear Deer Class, So Year Six, your time as a pupil at Moorlands is coming to an end. I normally write a letter to my class at the end ...

Last Thursday, I was absolutely delighted and extremely humbled to have been awarded the Egmont 2018 Reading for Pleasure Teacher Award . ...

'Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventual...

Dear Deer, Today I realised something very exciting! Did you know that you’re all readers now, every single one of you? I don’t mean t...

Last weekend, the third Patron of Reading conference took place at the DoubleTree Hotel in Manchester. It was on a whole different level fro...

After a hectic, but very enjoyable, few weeks travelling around the country to various literacy conferences and helping organise a R4P Teac...

This weekend I was delighted to attend the School Library Association conference in Gloucestershire and run a couple of workshop sessions a...

Tomorrow, my class are going to start thinking about and preparing their personal reading histories. Next week, we've invited parents in...

Despite being very dependent on successful Christmas play rehearsals, parents visiting to decorate the classroom and various other festive d...

After half-term we are going to be officially launching our School Reading Council. Full details are currently a bit sketchy, but the overal...