Please find instructions for how to take part in the Winter Mini Reading Challenge 2020. It is completely free and all you have to do is read at least three books between Tuesday 1st December 2020 and Friday 15th January … Continued
Welcome to Year 1
parents evening letter
Dear Children, Parents and Carers, As part of St Thomas More’s ongoing Reading for Pleasure campaign, we would like to invite you all to the Summer Reading Challenge 2020. This popular initiative is presented by The Reading Agency and … Continued
If you are looking for ideas for books, take a look at LoveReading 4 Kids Books of the Month for the latest releases. This is a fantastic website to help you find books. You can read the synopsis and there … Continued
Dear Parents and Carers, click HERE for some top tips for fostering reading motivation. Read with TRUST has some good strategies to support reading with your child at home also.
This year we celebrated World Book day with a variety of activities involving Reading for Pleasure. Year 5 led a special whole school assembly, ‘The Day the Books Quit,’ which they wrote themselves. Afterwards, parents joined us in the classroom … Continued
As part of our ongoing venture to promote Reading for Pleasure, we have invested in more exciting brand new titles. This has been made possible by the generous donations from the Friends who have worked hard to raise money for … Continued
Are you looking to support your child with their reading at home? Would you like some suggestions for suitable, age appropriate high quality texts? Please see School Reading List for Primary Schools which is curated and reviewed by librarians, parents … Continued
This afternoon, the whole school, from Nursery to Year 6, enjoyed a story swap session. We visited each other’s classes and spent time sharing books with each other. It was a delight to see the older children reading to the … Continued
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School-KS1 Nativity 2019 The KS1 classes performed the Nativity ‘Whoops-a Daisy-Angel’ on Wednesday 11th December to pupils, parents and friends. The children sang so beautifully and really encapsulated the meaning of Christmas and the birth … Continued
KS1 were fortunate enough to have had super heroes come to school and speak to them! KS1 Super Hero Visits
We used props to create the Traction Man story
On Tuesday 12th November, Year 1 did Yoga inside for PE due to the rain outside. During our lesson, we watched the linked yoga story which also related to anti-bullying week. Please feel free to do this at home with … Continued
KS1 visit to the Planetarium – Wednesday 9th October 2019 This term our Topic is ‘Moon Zoom’. As a part of this learning about Space, we visited a Planetarium. A planetarium is a dome that shows us the planets and … Continued