Easter Holiday Reading

Holiday Reading

Keep reading over the holidays!

READING CLOUD – eBooks & eAudiobooks

Log-on to our school library and read from our selection of eBooks & eAudiobooks.

This is a fabulous resource.

HAPPY EASTER!

🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤

 

HALF TERM

Book Borrowing

Each class has a weekly session in the library. Every child has an opportunity to borrow a book each week and return it on their library day to borrow another. Year 5 and Year 6 can borrow 2 books at a time.

Red Class choosing books.

Please make sure that your child returns their library book each week.

TUESDAY –Gems/Pearl/Tanzanite/Indigo/Amber/Orange/Yellow

WEDNESDAY – Diamond/Ruby/Red

THURSDAY – Green/Emerald/Blue/Sapphire /Violet/Amethyst

LOST or DAMAGED BOOKS 

If a book is lost or damaged please either replace it or contact the school office to arrange payment of £5 on ParentPay. 

 

Pearl Class borrowing books.

 

Enjoy your books over half-term and remember you can also read digital books and listen to audiobooks on our READING CLOUD.

.

Happy Holiday Reading!

Holiday Reading

 Holiday Reading

Here are some fun and FREE ways to help to keep reading over the holidays!

READING CLOUD – eBooks & eAudiobooks

Log-on to our school library and read from our selection of eBooks & eAudiobooks.

This is a fabulous resource.

Winter Reading Challenges

Islington Libraries

Join your local library if you are not a member already and join in with the 

WINTER READING CHALLENGE

at your local Islington Libraries or online.

For more information follow this link.

The Reading Agency 

Join in on line with the Reading Agency's WINTER MINI CHALLENGE.

For more information follow this link.

Merry Christmas

keep reading over the holidays.

🎄🎅🎄📖🎄📖🎄📖🎄📖🎄

Reading at St Joseph's

Reading at St Joseph’s

Our school is strongly committed to improving literacy and knows the importance of reading for pleasure.  There is strong evidence to suggest that young people who read for pleasure daily perform better academically.  We want to encourage children to enjoy reading and to read a wide range of good quality literature. 

As a school we promote reading by providing stimulating environments across the school with a range of material to support individual, group and class reading opportunities. Reading opportunities take place with individuals as well as group and whole class sessions across the curriculum which support and develop phonics, fluency, and comprehension.   Teachers keep records of the reading sessions to monitor as well as track pupil development and engagement with reading.  In addition to bringing home books from reading sessions, each class has a weekly library session to allow them to choose from a wide range of books.

Each child has a purple Home Reading Record which is paramount to supporting reading development.  Each day all children are expected to read for 10 minutes per day at home.  These sessions and any other home reading should be recorded in the purple record.  In Early Years to Year 3 parents should record the reading.  In Years 4 to 6 the reading should be recorded by the child – listing either a comment or new word with meaning and sentence. Parents should sign these records.  Class teachers monitor these logs to ensure that children are reading from a range of material. 

In addition to the physical books that children bring home, our school has access to a digital platform called The Reading Cloud. 

The Reading Cloud is our online library and reading resource that allows pupils, staff and parents to access our digital book collection and read eBooks and listen to audiobooks. Our school library catalogue can also be viewed and pupils are encouraged to use this resource to help with research, to write reviews about books they have read, blog about what they are reading and their favourite authors and search for new books.

Each child has a username and password which has been either given to them or sent home by their class teacher. To access the Reading Cloud and to find out more about the library, please go to the News tab on the school website https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/.

Reading Cloud access information: READING CLOUD – Parental Note

We hope that you find this facility to support your child’s reading, both educational and enjoyable. If you have any questions please contact the school librarian, Mrs Rooney, at office@st-josephs.islington.sch.uk.

Junior Librarians

 

Junior Librarians at work!

Our junior librarians have been chosen from children in Year 5 and Year 6.

Since the beginning of our autumn term they have been busy helping to run our school library.

They have many duties such as the following:

·      To keep the library tidy and in correct order

·      To keep book corners around school tidy

·      To help issue and return books

·      To recommend books to other children

·      To help children to find books

This week at lunch times they have been focusing on being reading buddies for children in Year 1 and Year 2. The librarians go and collect the children from their playground, bring them to the library and read them stories.

Our junior librarians, Giancarlo and Alfie from Indigo Class have been holding READING CLOUD Workshops.

They have been demonstrating to children from all year groups how to access and enjoy ebooks and eAudiobooks on our READING CLOUD using chrome books.

They have as a mission to help to get all the children in school to use our great online digital reading resource.

Giancarlo and Alfie have shown fabulous independent learning.

Thank you to all our enthusiastic and creative junior librarians who help to make our library such a special place and to encourage reading for pleasure.

 

Welcome Back - Reading Cloud

Encouraging Your Child’s Reading for Pleasure:  Our new school OVERDRIVE digital book collection now available on our online READING CLOUD library management system.

Our school is strongly committed to improving literacy and knows the importance of reading for pleasure.  There is good evidence to suggest that young people who read for pleasure daily perform better academically.  We want to encourage children to enjoy reading and to read a wide range of good quality literature.

The Reading Cloud is our online library and reading resource that allows pupils, staff and parents to access our digital book collection and read eBooks and listen to audiobooks. Our school library catalogue can also be viewed and pupils are encouraged to use this resource to help with research, to write reviews about books they have read, blog about what they are reading and their favourite authors and search for new books.

Each child has a username and password which has been either given to them or sent home by their class teacher.

To access the Reading Cloud and to find out more about the library, please go to the News tab on the school website https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/.

We hope that you find this facility to support your child’s reading, both educational and enjoyable. If you have any questions please contact the school librarian, Mrs Rooney, at office@st-josephs.islington.sch.uk.

Summer Holiday Reading

 

Summer Holiday Reading

FUN & FREE

Keep our children reading over the summer holidays!

 SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 

To join in visit your local library (Library Finder) and sign up or go online at summerreadingchallenge.org.uk. Children set a reading goal, borrow and read books, eBooks and audiobooks and collect rewards for their reading. 

 📙📘📗📕

READING CLOUD – eBooks & eAudiobooks

Log-on to our school library and read from our selection of eBooks & eAudiobooks.

To access the Reading Cloud go to our school website 

https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/

and follow the News tab to the Library.

Wishing you all happy holidays!

Reading Cloud - eBooks & eAudio

 

Please take the time to make sure you can access the 

Reading Cloud and the thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks for FREE.

For more information and direct access to the Reading Cloud please go to the school website

and follow the News tab to Library.

New Titles for SPRING

READ ONLINE

🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

Please take the time over the Easter holidays to make sure you can access the 

Reading Cloud and the thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks for FREE.

For more information and direct access to the Reading Cloud please go to the school website

and follow the News tab to Library.

Technology Open Morning

 Technology Open Morning 

💻💻💻💻💻💻💻💻

Today we welcomed a group of teachers from Denmark to participate in our school's Technology morning. They visited every class where use of technology to enhance learning was demonstrated. 

During a visit to the school library they were shown around our specific reading areas from our Picture Book to our Non-Fiction room and our cosy Book Nook. 

Some of our Junior Librarians together with our Digital Leaders demonstrated to our visitors the use of technology to enhance reading experiences.

They explained how we have an online school library catalogue and reading resource for pupils, staff and parents called the READING CLOUD (Education Software Solutions). They can access this from school and home to help with research, to write reviews, blog about what they are reading and their favourite authors, search for new books and reserve. 

eBooks and eAudiobooks are available on our online Reading Cloud. The children can continue their reading experience in the classroom, at home, at weekends and during holidays.

We are keen to promote the pleasure of reading whether it be reading a physical book or an eBook or listening to an eAudiobook. 

Technology is important to keeping our children engaged with reading especially when 

access to school and libraries is not possible due to illness or holidays.

There is a time and place for all reading formats.

💻💻💻💻💻💻💻💻💻💻

READ ONLINE

Please take the time over the Easter holidays to make sure you can access the 

Reading Cloud and the thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks for FREE.

For more information and direct access to the Reading Cloud please go to the school website

and follow the News tab to Library.

Reading Cloud - eBooks & eAudio

READING CLOUD – eBooks & eAudiobooks

Log-on to our school library and read from our selection of eBooks & eAudiobooks.

This is a fabulous resource.

 

Merry Christmas

&

keep reading over the holidays.

🎄🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

 

Open Morning for Parents

 

WELCOME 

to our 

LIBRARY

As part of our welcome back to school for our existing and new Parents/Carers we held open mornings for each year group. 

Presentations on our school and the learning for this year were given by teachers. 

The school librarian, Mrs Rooney, gave a short presentation on the school library. 

Our library has a digital management system called the Reading Cloud. It is a reading resource that allows pupils, staff and parents to access eBooks and audiobooks. Our digital library has been funded by the GET ISLINGTON READING initiative.

Each child has log-on details which are either given to them in school or sent home by the class teachers.

Following the presentations Parents/Carers were invited to visit the school library.

To access the Reading Cloud and to find out more about the library, please go to the News tab on the school website https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/.

We hope that you find this facility to support your child’s reading, both educational and enjoyable. If you have any questions please contact the school librarian, Mrs Rooney, at office@st-josephs.islington.sch.uk. 

Thank you for visiting our school library!

📘📘📘📘📘📘📘📘

Reading Cloud

 

Encouraging Your Child’s Reading for Pleasure:  Our new school OVERDRIVE digital book collection now available on our online READING CLOUD library management system.

Our school is strongly committed to improving literacy and knows the importance of reading for pleasure.  There is good evidence to suggest that young people who read for pleasure daily perform better academically.  We want to encourage children to enjoy reading and to read a wide range of good quality literature.

The Reading Cloud is our online library and reading resource that allows pupils, staff and parents to access our digital book collection and read eBooks and listen to audiobooks. Our school library catalogue can also be viewed and pupils are encouraged to use this resource to help with research, to write reviews about books they have read, blog about what they are reading and their favourite authors and search for new books.

Each child has a username and password which has been either given to them or sent home by their class teacher.

To access the Reading Cloud and to find out more about the library, please go to the News tab on the school website https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/.

We hope that you find this facility to support your child’s reading, both educational and enjoyable. If you have any questions please contact the school librarian, Mrs Rooney, at office@st-josephs.islington.sch.uk.