World Book Day, which takes place on Thursday, 3rd March, 2022, celebrates the joy and value of books and the art of reading. The worldwide events of the day are particularly aimed at children. The message this year is ‘You are a reader’. We, in school, along with your support, want to promote reading for pleasure on World Book Day and, of course, all year round.
Your child will be issued with a £1 World Book Day token. This can either be exchanged for one of twelve special £1 World Book Day books, or it can be used towards the cost of any book or audiobook priced at £2.99 or more. The token can be redeemed at most major supermarkets and bookshops. Vouchers are valid from 17th February, 2022, to 27th March, 2022. On World Book Day, before and after school, there will be an Usborne Book Fayre. Books will be priced from £2 upwards and children will have the opportunity to put their book tokens towards the cost of a book. Books will be available to purchase on the day or order during the week commencing 28th February. Every book that is bought or ordered at the fayre will help the school to obtain free books. More details regarding the book fayre will be sent nearer the time.
On Thursday, 3rd March, your child may attend school dressed as his/her favourite book character. Alternatively, they may attend school wearing their pyjamas. For this privilege, the children will be asked to donate one pound and the money raised will be used towards helping to purchase new books for our reading scheme. During the morning, children throughout the school will enter an in-house competition. Children in YN, YR, Y1, Y2 and Y3 will complete an activity, which for many will be a written activity, based on a book that will be read to them. Children in Y4, Y5 and Y6 will be given the start of a story which they will then have to finish. All pieces of work will be entered into an in-house competition and one winner will be chosen from each class. Other activities will be on offer during the day.
The joys and benefits of reading are enormous and we, in school, hope to continue to encourage and enthuse your child with a love for reading that will last well beyond World Book Day.
Thank you for your support.
We hope that you all had a lovely, restful Christmas break. We are looking forward to the term ahead.
We are going to be reading a different traditional tale every week. The book this week is Hansel and Gretel. We will be designing our own Gingerbread Cottage, decorating biscuits, following pebble trails, counting and colouring characters.
Look out later this week for the results of our experiment to find out what drink is the best drink for our teeth and the damage some drinks can do!
Tomorrow we will be walking to Morrisons to buy some different kinds of fruit to bring back to school to taste.
Wishing all of our children and families a very
‘Happy New Year!’
May our Lord fulfil all your new year wishes and keep you and your family healthy and happy.
All the staff of All Souls’ x
Year 6 had a lovely day out filled with knowledge, wonder and awe today.
We made our way to St Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham via train before having a tour of the beautiful Catholic cathedral and all it has to offer. We learnt so much about its history before celebrating in mass together.
We even found a little piano that was screaming to be played so Nathan gave us a little Christmas jingle to sing along to in true Year 6 style.
Year 3 children who are preparing to receive their First Holy Communion are invited to our family mass on Sunday 5th December 2021 to make their commitments.
This is a very special mass, in which children of Year 3 will take on more responsibility within and outside of the mass, and offer up their prayers of commitment to our Lord.
We would love as many parents and families there to join us.
Hello Everyone,
The children looked great today in their spots/P.J’s/outfits and we have to say a big, big thankyou for your kind and generous donations – Nursery raised over £40, so well done! This week we also made spotty Pudsey headbands and we made spotty smarty cakes for our snack time today. To fit in with our theme on patterns our focus books this week have been ‘Elmer the Elephant’ and ‘Aliens Love Underpant’, so the children have had a go at designing their own Elmers and underpants.
This week we have also been thinking about people who care for us and look after us at home and in school. The children went down to the office and kitchen to talk to Mrs Cannon and the kitchen staff to find out the jobs they do and how they look after us. Mrs Rae and Mr Gale (our site manager) also popped into Nursery to talk to the children.
Our phoneme for next week is ‘p’ so anything the children find at home beginning with this letter sound could be sent into Nursery for our sound table. Because the weather this week has been relatively mild we have made the most of using the big playground which the children have loved. As you may know, we are due a cold snap next week so please make sure the children bring in hats, scarves and gloves ( I think hot chocolate may be on the menu for snack time!). Next Friday is Advent day in school and we will be making an Advent wreath with the children for our prayer table – any donations of evergreens/holly you may have in your garden would be greatly appreciated.Have a good weekend everyone and stay warm!
The Nursery Team
Year 2 had a good day on Friday at the Transport Museum.
First we did some activities where we compared bikes throughout time, looked at the structure of a bike and what makes it safe, had a go on a scooter with rubber wheels and with wooden wheels and then did a science experiment where we found out that rubber stops quicker than metal which is why they are good on tyres!
Then we walked around the museum and had a look at the different cars, bikes, buses and taxis!
Then we had some chilled time drawing some bikes!
Thank you to Lawrence Prestidge for visiting our school to hold and Q&A event for Years 5 and 6 today. We really enjoyed finding out more about why he became an author as well as his favourite books and authors. The best bit was listening to him read a snippet of his newest book, ‘Terror at the Sweet Shop’ before he signed the books that some of us had bought!
Year 6 embraced the rain today and released their beautiful singing voices and dance moves to tick one of their 101 things from the All Souls’ Pledge off!
