World Book Day 2024
Throughout Alston Primary, we have voted and chosen these activities for World Book Day 2024 on Thursday 7th March...
Children will visit the library with their class, help decorate the classroom door from their chosen book or author, enjoy hot chocolate and a biscuit during Reading Buddies and…
WORLD BOOK DAY is coming to ALSTON MOOR - Thursday 7th March 2024
Keep your eyes peeled for all the special activities and events that will be announced in the coming days!
Spring Term recommended read
Our recommended book this half term is The day the crayons quit –
The day the crayons quit a fun and unique story of a box of crayons who write letters to Duncan as they are fed up with how they are being treated. It comes highly recommended as it is a firm favourite with our children who love…
Mr Dawson shares his love of reading!
It was fantastic to welcome Mr Dawson into Cross Fell this morning to read us one of his favourite books. We were really enthralled as we listened to the story of Emily Brown and the Thing and really appreciated Mr Dawson coming to share our story time with us- again sharing and promoting that…
Reading Buddies 2nd February 2024
Sharing some of our favourite books with our friends from other year groups!
APS Reading Framework
Reading Framework
Teaching the Foundations of Literacy
Why Does Reading Matter?
To everyone at Alston Moor Federation, reading matters emotionally, culturally and educationally. We promote finding a Love of Reading in a Language-Rich Environment. Children who find a love of reading -…
Sharing our love of books- a very special delivery!
Even Santa shares our passion for reading! We had a very special visitor to Alston Primary School today- Santa and his chief Elf!
We were delighted to all receive a lovely book from Santa to take home to share with our families- it was a very exciting visit!
Thankyou to everyone who arranged this very special treat for us, we are lucky to have such a supportive school community. Here are Cross Fell and their exciting presents, it wasn’t long after this that they were all enjoying sharing the lovely books that they had received.
Growing our love of reading!
Cross Fell can't wait to get started on their book Advent calendar!
We love to share our love of reading and the excitement we have each day when we unwrap a new book to share makes our daily reading session even more magical :-)
Virtual author visit
We work hard to inspire the children to really enjoy reading and build a life long passion for books and at APS we do this in a variety of ways.
Today Cross Fell enjoyed a virtual author visit and joined Nicola Kinnear for a fun session inspired by her latest picture book, Ready, Steady…