Flying High With Reading

As soon as we heard that the title of the competition was ‘Flying High with Reading’, we immediately started to think about what it meant. Books encourage your imagination to take flight, the books we read assist us to fly high into our own world of novels, to become writers and to use our ideas and imagination to create our own stories. Reading helps us shoot for the stars! This is when we realised we should choose a space theme. What’s higher than space? Therefore, we decided to explore the theme. We thought about rockets, flying spaceships, astronauts, stars and planets. Reading is like a shooting star that boosts us higher, to better and greater; it brings colours to our lives, wonderful, beautiful rainbows of imagination.

We are reading champions, because we read a lot, and when we read, we enjoy it! We always celebrate World Book Day, National Poetry Day and Roald Dahl Day. This whole school display is not only going to celebrate our love of books, but encourage us to read more. As it is set in outer space, using space passports we are going to have to travel to different ‘Reading Planets’. Each time we read a book from a different genre, we get a stamp in our passport. Once we have read a book from all the planets, we will get a prize!

Our display celebrates all the different ways we read, both inside and outside of school. With this mind-set, we decided to make rockets to showcase our reading journals. Our reading journals are important to us, children in KS2 take these books home, and complete entries on every book we read. At home, we also read with our grown-ups – we wanted them, their hard work and determination to be celebrated in our display too. We were asked to take a picture reading with an adult outside of school. These photos are the ‘superstars’ of our display.

We also wanted to celebrate the reading that takes place in school. All the classes were asked to present work for our spectacular display. We all have put a lot of effort into the display, to make sure we represented reading at our school brilliantly. We included work from our Guided Reading lessons; prediction, word meaning, inference and deduction. We have also included our favourite ‘Reading for Research’ tasks. The little children are learning to read, so they showed us how they use ‘Fred Fingers’ and phonics too.

Located in the library, we wanted our display to help us choose books that we would not normally select. We made video book reviews for children to watch from inside the rocket. We also created blurbs and new front covers for our favourite books and gave recommendations of books to hang from each planet.

Magical and spellbinding, this display expresses how seriously we take reading. We have gained confidence from taking part, we have worked together as a school and celebrated our love of books.

(Written by Nanaba, Junior, Deborah and Angel in Year 6)

A Reception, Year 1 and 2 child enjoy the ‘Space’ library.

The 7 book genre planets

Samples of Reading work from all ages.

Entrance to the rocket, with screen to blast off and watch book reviews.

Alien family enjoying the library.