Reading is very important at Sunnybrow Primary School. Our Reading Ambassadors provide a children’s voice in how we promote reading throughout the school.
They have been chosen for their love of reading and their enthusiasm to share this with others. Meet our wonderful Reading Ambassadors:
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- Bailey
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- Eleanor
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- Megan
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- Danton
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- Jessica
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- Jaiden-Lee
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- Tianna
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- Evie-Grace
They are all working hard to help to promote reading across our school in lots of different ways.
Assemblies
The ambassadors have recently delivered several whole-school assemblies to explain their role, share information about their visit to Willington Library, introduce World Book Day, communicate key messages about reading to the school and share all of the wonderful ideas they have to continue to develop reading across our school.
Reading Afternoons
We have invited parents and carers to our Reading Event afternoons. We have loved showing our family how they can help us with our reading at home.
The Library
Our Reading Ambassadors have worked really hard to help develop our school library and they have done a fantastic job! We are so proud of this area and we love coming in each week to read with our own classes and choose our own library book to take home to read. They have spent a lot of their time sorting through our current books, organising our new books and helping to look after the library by keeping it tidy. The Reading Ambassadors have also helped by choosing recommended reading books that they think other children might like to read, and they have a Recommended Reads display for KS1 and for KS2.
Book Club
The Reading Ambassadors hold a book club every fortnight on a Thursday lunchtime in school. This is a chance for children to read with our Reading Ambassadors in our library.
New books for our school
In school we are working really hard to develop our school library and also the range of books we have in school. Our family and friends have helped by voting for us in Tesco at Bishop Auckland. We have been able to buy non-fiction books for our school and classrooms, and we can now use these to help us with our learning across the curriculum.
Visiting Willington Library
Our Reading Ambassadors had a great time visiting our local library. On our visit we found out lots of interesting facts about Willington Library, including: you can borrow 12 books at a time for free, there are 2,500 children’s books to choose from in the library and you can also take part in other things at the library (use the computers, listen to audio books, complete art and craft activities).
Author Day
We have had a wonderful time time welcoming Liz Million into our school. Liz was able to share with us what it is like to be an author and an illustrator. The children found her so inspiring and she definitely helped to develop a love of reading in our school.
Listening to others
Listening to younger children read or reading stories to them is another part of their role. Our Reading Ambassadors support reading across school every week. They have a timetable of children to read with regularly. They share their love of reading anything (newspapers, magazines, comics, sports reports) with other children and help them to choose books that they will enjoy.
Reading challenges
To promote reading for pleasure and to expand the range of books that children read, they have launched a reading challenge for all pupils.
