Top titles coming soon!

Before the summer we asked some children what they would like read about or authors they’d like to see in school ready for our reading launch.

Lots of children were keen to see David Walliams and Anthony Horowtiz make an appearance in our home reading section and we’re delighted to say we’ve got lots of both. Some of our younger girls really wanted to see books about animals and some of our older children wanted a bit of a scare.

Hundreds of new books coming very soon.

WATCH THIS SPACE

 

17^th September

 

BOOKS, BOOKS EVERYWHERE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Today Mrs Simpson, her daughter Martha, Mrs Stallard and Miss Lewis had to absolute pleasure of choosing lots of new books for our home-reading system. To be launched very soon.

A huge thank you must go out to Waterstones and WHSmith who not only donated some books to the school but gave us some amazing offers and discounts.

Already lots of interested eyes have been gazing at the pile.

We just can’t wait to share them.

15^th September

 

Screen Time

Recently there has been a lot in the press about children using computers, computers in school and technology replacing some parenting.

Just this week BBC news shared an article about how lots of computers in schools don’t necessarily improve children’s education. Whilst looking at this article, I came across another (as you do), this time talking about ‘How much screen time is too much’. So I thought I’d share some of the article…

The average 10-year-old has access to five different screens at home

• Children routinely engage in two or more forms of screen viewing at the same time, such as TV and laptop
• British teenagers are clocking up six hours of screen time a day, but research suggests the negative impacts start after two hours' viewing time
• A lot of screen material is not well designed for a child's cognitive processes, eg loud, fast changing stimulation - this is attention grabbing, but does not help processing
• Watching with an adult can reduce some of the negativity as they can scaffold discussions