This term, all year groups have been provided with Read, Set, Read books. These carefully selected texts are designed to challenge pupils, develop reading fluency and extend vocabulary. The books include high- quality stories from a wide range of authors, cultures, and backgrounds. This approach helps to promote a love of reading, encouraging children to read widely and enjoy books both in school and at home.

As part of Black History Month, year 3 have enjoyed reading ‘Look Up!’ This is the story of Rocket, a young girl whose hero is Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space. We explored the book and also read a biography of Mae Jemison in order to develop our understanding, and used our reading skills to compare the similarities between the messages that we found in the two texts.

Year 3 have started their reading journey off with the incredible wordless picture book 'Journey' by Aaron Becker. We immersed ourselves...