School Reading Council

Our School Reading Council held its first meeting this week. The children had lots of ideas about how to get children and staff excited about reading in the school. Some of the suggestions that came up were:

• Lead a special assembly where they could talk about favourite books and why they love reading. Also ask the teachers what their favourite books are.
• Have a 'Reader of the Week' in each class where the child gets to wear a special badge.
• Write a regular column about books and reading for the school newsletter and the village magazine.
• Have a School Reading Council display board for book reviews, posters, etc.
• Film interviews with the staff about reading to put on the school website. Mr Lee has volunteered to be first, although he doesn't know it yet.
• Discuss which authors and poets we would like to visit the school over the next year or so.
• Create a class 'wishlist' of books that children would like for the new library.
• Become Book Spotters for our EmpathyLab project, where we look out for children's books about loneliness.

We've got our next meeting in a week or so where we'll decide what we're going to focus on first.