Accrington Huncoat Primary School
Our Reading School
Huncoat is a READING SCHOOL where we promote the Love for Reading across all age ranges.
Parents guide to help with reading as well as online books to share at home - click the links below -
https://www.freechildrenstories.com/age-3-5
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/
Recommended Reads -
EYFS Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
Top Tips for Reading:
We hold an annual Phonics and Reading meeting for our new parents - here is some of the feedback we received:
"Feels good to be able to help my child learn to read using new methods of sounding out"
"It was great to see how my child is learning to put the letters together to make words - he has now started to do this at home"
"We found it helpful to see how our child is learning to read. It also helped reassure us with what we have been doing at home"
"We will take more time now and slow down while reading - following and pointing out key words and letters rather than just reading the book"
Have a look at our 'Read to Succeed' document for tips to help you with reading at home:-
We have been really lucky - our LET Education Trust gave us £250 for World Book Day to buy some new books, here they are...
We bought some early chapter readers for Year 2.
We bought topical books on our climate
We bought books people might enjoy like football/ unicorns/ Paddington
Christmas has come early to Huncoat with a special delivery of books for Christmas reading in December:
Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke
The Perfect Fit by Naomi Jones
An Emotional Menagerie by Alain De Botton
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Frankie's World by Aoife Dooley
Book Fair 2024
Our first Book Fair has been a great success with £521.42 worth of books sold. This is fabulous news, thank you for all parents who bought books and for the staff who arranged the fair. Hopefully we can hold the Book Fair again in 2025.
Reception's Everywhere Bear...
World Book Day 2025
We linked our World Book Day to Nature and Earth looking at stories which inspire us to look after our world and take care of its animals.
Check out our Doors for World Book Day!
Sibling Readers club
We have recently trained up our year 5 and 6 children who have siblings to read with them. They do a fantastic job segmenting and blending words for their brothers/sisters! The children have really enjoyed listening to their siblings and asking them questions about the stories that are being read. A huge well done to key stage one, fabulous reading! Miss Gregory.
Linking our Reading to Mental Health
We have been lucky enough to have beautiful books donated to us by Accrington Libraray all about our Mental Health, there are stories for all ages/ Year 6 Mental Health/ worries and anxieties/ anger and ways to recognise its ok to feel all these things!
Santa has come early to Huncoat in 2023...and delivered us some fantastic class reads:
The Christmasaurus Picture Book
The Pine Tree
The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List
The Girls who saved Christmas
Non-Fiction November
During November each class will be focusing on non-fiction texts as part of their Guided or Whole Class reading sessions plus our extended writing is focused on non-fiction too.
Here are some of the wonderful and wacky entries from our 'Roald Dahl Day' design a chocolate bar competition - September 2021
World Book Day 2022 - Alice in Wonderland
WORLD BOOK DAY - COMPETITION TIME!
Can you guess which teachers are reading in our Guess Who Challenge?
Look at some of our 'Recreate a Book Cover' entries.
Well done to Ted, Matthew, Elena, Tilly and Lucas for being our prize winners!
Check out some of the images below that show our Reading School:
Inspirational People - we have been kindly donated some money and we have chosen to buy books to inspire our children to fulfill their dreams and ambitions.
We asked all the children...
Can you complete our Christmas Reading Challenge and win a prize worth 25 Owlets?
Lots of families had great fun completing the challenge over the Christmas holidays.
Well done to our winners Felix and Rohan whose names were drawn out of a hat to win a £10 Amazon book voucher!
Look at our stories all linked to Online Safety - we can explore being Safe Online through books and stories!
We are loving our brand new storysacks in EYFS.
Our teachers spent a long time creating them for us to enjoy at home.
Our Reading Booth - to help us focus on key questions whilst we read to adults.
World Book day
Our Breakfast Readers - share a story with toast and family!
World Book Day - Hot Chocolate and Story Time
Bedtime Baskets
EYFS are so lucky to take home our Bedtime Baskets home for the week, full of bedtime reads and hot chocolate!
Dear Santa,
Please can my class have a new book to read in January?
Love from class...
Check out all the books and quotes on our new Book Shelves - they will change each term!
Our Fantastic Book Awards Pack has arrived... all ready for some yr5/6 to commit to the challenge!
We are very excited that our Brilliant Book Awards have arrived all ready for Year 2 in Spring!
Read your way to From the North Pole to Christmas!
Each daily read is 1 mile - can we bring Christmas to Huncoat?
