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Red October is Here!

Read Every Day October is my favourite month – a month of reading and sharing books! I know I ramble on about the importance of reading but it makes such a difference to our young people, it really does.

This meant that the week started with an assembly led by the Reading Ambassadors and in it they talked about all of the exciting events, challenges and opportunities that are coming up. It is wonderful to see our young people talk so passionately about reading and promoting it to their peers.

During RED October, we have many amazing events and opportunities for our children. Such as:

• Daily book blethers
• Covering the school in bookish bunting!
• The Great Page Race Challenge!
• Authors visiting (have you brought your books to get signed?)
• Story Spuds make a return!
• Mega Mufti day on 24th October with prizes for the best dressed book characters.

Kieran Larwood – our first Author!

This week, we were thrilled to welcome Kieran Larwood to our school. Podkin One Ear is on our Year 3 reading spine and it is a firm favourite of my family!

Keiran writes the most amazing adventure stories (including the Dungeon Runners series). He led an assembly for KS2 and a map making workshops with Years 3 and 4! He ended his visit by reading extracts from Podkin to both year groups. What a fantastic experience and incredibly inspiring.

Diwali Lantern Making

On Tuesday, a group of children from Year 4 buddied up with our local seniors to take part in a Diwali Lantern making workshop. It was a fantastic experience and just look the incredible lanterns that they made!

We are very excited to see them on show at the town’s Diwali parade on 18th October – will you be attending? Opportunities like this are fantastic for our children to learn about world views and their local community. Plus the intergenerational discussions were brilliant!

Tag Rugby

Inspired by our amazing Women’s Rugby World Cup winners, 8 girls from KS2 attended a Rugby Festival which was held at The Casuals Rugby Club. It was a great event filled with skills, drills and games and a wonderful time was had by all. Thank you Coach Cook for organising.

SEND art project

I am excited to tell you that we are involved in a special inclusive art project. The project is called 'Who You Are In Your Mask' - it's Arts Council funded and is devised and led by Jonathan Reynolds. A group of 10 - 12 children from across the school will be working on a 10 week art project with Jonathan which will culminate in an exhibition held at ‘The Lawyer & The Nurse’ in Kettering in December. We are really excited to watch this project grow and see the creativity of our young people flow!

That’s it for this week – as part of RED October please try and read with your children EVERY DAY – sharing stories and books is so important for many reasons.

It’s been a brilliantly creative and enriching week!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Ms Pennington