Reading Day

Today is Reading Day and we are celebrating in style and in orange!

We started with an assembly to launch the island-wide Whistling Duck Book Award which is in its inaugural year. A selection of children's books have been chosen by a committee which incudes members from the CI Department of Education; Maples and Calder, the award sponsors and a consultatnt from Books & Books. There are three age catgories and our school will participate in two of those - 4-8 years of age and 9-12 years of age. There are five books per category and students are asked to read all five and write a book report. For our youngest They will receive a different wristband for each book read - and there is a special t-shirt for all students who read all five books. Schools will then let the organisers know the winning book in each category as selected by the children in that school. The results across the island will be collated and the award winners will be announced in April 2009. We are excited to be able to promote reading in this exciting way - and for our children to have an active part in deciding the winners. Please see the list of books being read on our Literacy blog.

Throughout the day children undertook a range of reading activities from buddy reading between classes to reading games to book reviews. Books fall open - we fall in!