Then the teachers caught the book making bug....have a look at their lovely creations at the top. They're beautiful and I'm always impressed with the folk who use all their energy enthralling children in the day and then still have energy left for book making later. However, as we all now if you craft or play music or paint, draw, do something creative you do gain much therapy from being in the flow. So try it...and then importably allow your children to feel the flow too.
Reception and Year 1 book making all day at Horsford C of E VA Primary in Norwich and it was a real pleasure. We imagined being Wizards and then drew our magic objects in our own books. At one point there were quite a few cries for help when it came to folding the book at the end but all's well that ends well as far as Storyshack is concerned in that everybody drew and wrote in their books spontaneously after that.
Then the teachers caught the book making bug....have a look at their lovely creations at the top. They're beautiful and I'm always impressed with the folk who use all their energy enthralling children in the day and then still have energy left for book making later. However, as we all now if you craft or play music or paint, draw, do something creative you do gain much therapy from being in the flow. So try it...and then importably allow your children to feel the flow too.
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"The best predictor of reading achievement in study after study, is the amount of recreational reading children have done…."
So even if our lovely Year 6s complete their equally lovely SATS reading test this year at greater depth but they are reading books few and far between we're not doing our job. If they haven't experienced the wealth of amazing children's literature that is available FREE to them all we are not doing our job. If we don't read I hate to say it to add more pressure but we're really not doing our job. If teachers can only name Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl, J K Rowling and Jacqueline Wilson as key authors we're not doing our job. You can't really have a pretend SATS orientated reading culture in schools....it's got nothing to do with SATS and testing, it's to do with giving our young people access to books, imagining and a life long love of reading. Don't forgo your libraries for SATS text books....build them up, make them into treasure chests, let your children know they can go to those treasure chests FOR FREE for the rest of their lives. What better gift can we give? READING FOR PLEASURE IS READING FOR LIFE |
Sarah GallagherAvid reader, sometimes a headteacher AND founder of Story shack. A place where you can release your imagination and see where it takes you.... Archives
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