Over St. John's Reading Champions

Reading Champions

Here are our Reading Champions from Year 5 and Year 6.

These children are our 2024-2025 Reading Champions. We have some children who were reading champions last year and we also have some new reasing champions for this year. All children have submitted wonderful applications as to why they were suitable for the role of Reading Champion. They had to think about and explain why they wanted to do this role, why they thought they would be good at the role, why reading is important and what story they would read during a whole school assembly. Their answers were incredible. Well done.

Reading Champion Roles and Responsibilities

The Reading Champions will be required to carry out the following duties:

Ensure the library is neat and tidy and all the books are in the correct place.

Ensure that the library is inviting for all children, placing new books on display and contributing to the library theme and display.

Fostering a love of reading throughout school by sharing their favourite books with others and recommending them

Supporting Mrs Snowdon’s story time assemblies.

Being a book buddy for children in Reception and Year 1.

Carry out evaluations of class reading areas and provide feedback.

Assist in the planning of reading themed events such as World Book Day.

Work with Mrs McLaughlin to develop a love of reading throughout the school.

Roald Dahl Activity Afternoon - 17.10.2024

The chilldren's first challenge in their role as reading champions was to help to plan and deliver a whole school reading event. The children based the event on the author, Roald Dahl, and created four activity zones based on his books, came up with the activities for each zone and prepped the resources required. They also led the activities at the event. There was a zone based on The Twits where the children made pom pom spiders and a roly poly bird, a zone based on The BFG where the children made dream catchers, a zone based on The Witches where the chidren made slime and a final zone based on Charlie and the Chocolate factory where the children made chocolate spoons and gingerbread spoons. We had 19 families attend this event, which was just fabulous and everyone had a great time. I was so incredibly impressed with how hard the children worked.