APS Reading Hub

We are very fortunate to have access to the Read, write Inc virtual classroom and share clips with families to support children's reading at home. 

In addition to sending the clips home we also use them in class to provide extra booster sessions and 1:1 bespoke teaching, helping every child on…

At Alston Primary School we work hard to foster a life long love of reading and have our RWI mascots Fred and Fredwina to help us with this mission. Over the past half term Fred and Fredwina have been extremely busy visiting a range of children and have really enjoyed sharing cosy story times and…

At Alston Primary School early reading is taught through our school's chosen programme, Read Write Inc.

The children are grouped according to their current level of development and are regularly assessed and re-grouped to ensure that they are taught at their individual challenge point.

Our…

We really enjoyed looking in the book swap box and choosing some new books to take home and keep :-) happy reading and happy weekend everyone!

We have to book fair in school from Tuesday 17th March - Thursday 19th March

It will be open to families after school from 3.30pm-4.00pm

World Book Day vouchers will be handed out next week. Please keep these safe as these can be spent at the book fair the following week.

We hope to see…

Just a reminder that we will be collecting reading diaries in the morning to tick off and move cars along the reading race track.

We move the cars for every 1 read per day so please keep writing in those reading diaries. It can be stories shared or stories that the children have read to you.
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Well done to everyone who has been working so hard on their reading at home- it makes such a huge difference! Well done to our top readers in the race, keep it up everyone :-)

Launching today race to read! We will collect all reading records today to award any dojos from Christmas then start the challenge.
Each Monday we will collect diaries and move the cars along the track with 7 moves possible a week.
We will post a picture each week to show progress! Good luck…

A lovely last day of term, a picture quiz where children worked with their partner putting phonic knowledge into practice even on the last day! A special visitor (Santa) who was made to feel very welcome, such excitement about the books they received, children wanted to take them to lunch, outside…

Our Advent calendar is nearing it's end and we have loved hearing a different Christmassy themed story each day, it really has helped to spread a little joy and helped to continue to build our love of reading.

Today we visited the book bus and each got a book to take back to share in class, we absolutely love it when they visit us and get so excited to see which new books we can enjoy.

Our much loved book Advent calndar is back! Today we opened to first book in the pile and we can’t wait to see which story we get tomorrow!