Welcome to our Reading Ambassadors page!

Our Mission

We value reading and the enjoyment it brings so we encourage everyone to enjoy reading too!

We are keen readers in school, who have been nominated by our teachers to be reading ambassadors. Through our whole school events and daily activities, we will share our ideas of ways to encourage more children to read, share our knowledge of books and promote a love of reading across our school. 

Our Reading Ambassadors

OUR BIG BOOK SWAP

Our Reading Ambassadors teamed up with our Eco Warriors to plan and run our next event in school: The Big Book Swap.

At Our Lady's we care about God’s creation and encourage everyone to make our school a greener place as well as valuing reading and encouraging everyone to read too!

 We know that so many children have books at home that either you’ve read and won’t read again, you haven’t enjoyed or have loved and enjoyed but have now moved onto newer books.

We didn’t want these to just go to waste, cluttering up your room or being thrown in the bin! Did you know that each new book that is made contributes to trees being cut down in our world? Everybody knows that trees are vital for our planet for so many reasons.

We did our bit in school to reuse and recycle books that people no longer use so that we care for our common home whilst also encouraging people to read more! Everyone was invited to bring in books they no longer wanted and swap them for a different book. 

What a huge success it was!

WORLD BOOK DAY!

Our Reading Ambassadors planned and led a fantastic whole school assembly for World Book Day to promote reading for pleasure! 

Our Reading Ambassadors arranged for every child in school to receive a free World Book Day book and hand delivered them to classes this afternoon! The Reading Ambassadors said it felt great to give and to see others so happy!

As part of World Book Day, we had 'Drop Everything And Read' time every hour! Our Reading Ambassadors went into classes to observe this and join in with this lovely reading time each hour!

As part of Children's Mental Health Week, our Reading Ambassadors have held a lunchtime reading club where they have read a book to Key Stage 1 children with a theme of mental health. It has been hugely popular and everybody involved thoroughly enjoyed it! 

To celebrate National Story Telling Week, our Reading Ambassadors went into a class for 10 minutes each day and read a story to the class. The children loved having our ambassadors read to them, rather than their teacher like usual! Hopefully, it will inspire more of our pupils to become keen, avid readers just like our ambassadors. 

On Thursday 15th November, we held our Reading Cafe in school. We thought it was really successful! The majority of people found a number of books they now want to borrow and read. Classes have a fortnightly library slot to allow the children to borrow books from school and our next steps are to monitor this. 

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We have been busy, behind the scenes, reading lots of new books in our library so we can recommend new books to you based on your interests! Our Reading Cafe will be on Thursday 14th November where you will get to 'taste' lots of these new books!