Reading at St Helens Primary Academy

All things reading at our fantastic primary school! 📚

[Reading at St Helens Primary Academy @ReadingatSHPA]

New books heading their way in to our classrooms today which we can't wait to read. This month our order was a range of graphic novels from a fantastic range of authors! @JerryCraft @Joetoddstanton @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT

[Year 3 at St Helen's @StHelensyear3]

Today, we took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and took our class text outside to enjoy 📖 ☀️ 😊. We also checked on the growth of our wild flower seeds - nothing to report yet! @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @AETAcademies

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

Straight back in to a settled morning of reading for Year 5 ready for our final half-term! 📚

[Reading at St Helens Primary Academy @ReadingatSHPA]

What a relaxing way to start the day Year 2! 📚

[St Helen’s Year 3 @class_GrayY3]

Year 2 are enjoying a calming reading session this morning. A lovely start to the day! @MrsG_StHelens @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensYear5

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

Supportive fluency reading in today’s lesson with our partners - great work Year 5! @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT

[Reading at St Helens Primary Academy @ReadingatSHPA]

This book looks very interesting! Great choice Miss Bowles! 📚

[Year 3 at St Helen's @StHelensyear3]

We LOVE our class text and story time! We hate that Miss Bowes always leaves it on a cliffhanger! @AETAcademies @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @ReadingatSHPA

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

We’re really enjoying exploring some new texts - we think Crater Lake might have to be our next class read after The Last Bear 📚 @ReadingatSHPA

[Reading at St Helens Primary Academy @ReadingatSHPA]

@StHelensyear3 @ArtatStHelens @PrincipalSTH Fantastic work Year 3 - it will be lovely to see some finished pieces!

[Year 3 at St Helen's @StHelensyear3]

After exploring emotions in our chosen book this morning, Year 3 are now creating some abstract artwork with a focus on a previously learnt skill - shading. We are using colours and shapes to represent emotions. @ArtatStHelens @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH

[Year 6 St Helen's @Year6StHelens]

Y6 (ZA) started their enrichment day by researching into the life of Katherine Rundell and listening to an audiobook of Rooftoppers. @ReadingatSHPA

[@Year 4 St Helen’s @StHelensYear4]

We have listened to chapter 2 of ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ and are writing a diary entry imaging we are Ahmet and how we felt on our first day in a new school 📚📚@OnjaliRauf @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy @SouthamMr

[Year 3 at St Helen's @StHelensyear3]

Year 3’s chosen author for our Reading enrichment day is Zanib Mian @Zendibble! We chose the book ‘My Friend The Alien’ and we are writing our own diary extracts from the perspective of an alien who is exploring emotions on Earth! @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @StHelensAcademy

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

Who is going to win the crater lake quiz? ⭐️📚 @ReadingatSHPA

[@Year 4 St Helen’s @StHelensYear4]

A huge well done to ‘L’ for winning our reading suitcase this week. I hope you enjoy reading all those lovely books over the weekend 📚📚@ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy @SouthamMr

[Reading at St Helens Primary Academy @ReadingatSHPA]

This looks like so much fun Year 3! Did you discover any new authors? 📚

[Year 3 at St Helen's @StHelensyear3]

To get us warmed up for our Reading enrichment day, we went on a book hunt around the classroom to discover both well-known and new authors! @ReadingatSHPA @AETAcademies @PrincipalSTH @StHelensAcademy

[@Year 4 St Helen’s @StHelensYear4]

Our first task of our Reading enrichment day is to find out some more information about our chosen author @OnjaliRauf Let’s see what interesting facts we can find out 📚📚@ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy @SouthamMr

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

Our reading enrichment day is focused around the author @JenniferKillick 📚. We’re so excited to delve into crater lake and others today! @ReadingatSHPA

[@Year 4 St Helen’s @StHelensYear4]

To kickstart our Reading Enrichment day Y4 did some reading for pleasure on Get Epic 📚📚@ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy @SouthamMr

[@Year 4 St Helen’s @StHelensYear4]

Year 4 are really enjoying our new reading lessons and have been learning about E.B.White. Today we looked at some word families and thought of different ways to use them in sentences @ReadingatSHPA @HeadofSchoolSH @STHAssistantHT @StHelensAcademy @SouthamMr

[Class Gold - Year 6 @StHelensYear5]

This morning we are using story circles to recap the first part of the Beowulf book. Fantastic summarising skills @ReadingatSHPA @PrincipalSTH @STHAssistantHT