It’s the final recommended reading posting of the year! Thank you to everyone who reads these, hopefully there has been an interesting book suggestion, reading tip or maybe some information about the reading events at the school.

Mr Jones recommends:

Wildsmith: Into the Dark Forest by Liz Flanagan

Reading Age: year 2 - year 5

Genre: magic, adventure & fiction 

This summer holiday, we are running the 2nd edition of the Vineyard Reading challenge, please take a photo of you reading in an exciting or strange place and send it to the year 5 inbox: year5@vineyard.richmond.sch.uk.

Last holiday we had so many fantastic submissions and the prize for the winning photo will be a free book of their choice.

Read on to find out what we have been up to in Years 5 & 6 this week.

Read on to find out what we have been up to in Years 1 & 2 this week.

Super Saturday final session before the Summer Holidays. It will be the last opportunity to use the school playgrounds before the summer holidays. The Table Tennis coach is pairing up players to play in a team format, and the JA Sports coaches will get the dino bikes out. Come down between 9:30-12:00midday.

A review of Super Saturday will take place to see if it is viable to continue next academic year. There is a small cost associated with opening the grounds on Saturday (coaches to oversee safety, maintenance/cleaning). This year the school received funding to start the project; thereafter the project needs to be sustainable. The most likely option for this would be families buying an annual Open School pass which would allow entry. Your comments and opinions would be appreciated. Do you value the school ground opening? Feedback form: https://forms.gle/LXQGqkEkbzzcEZES7

On Tuesday, we were fortunate enough to visit The Alligator’s Mouth book shop and spend some vouchers that the school had received. The children’s instructions were to buy a picture book for their new year 5 & 6 classes. They did an absolutely fantastic job and we spent over £110! All the books were incredible but the favourite was…

Laila recommends:

Round and Round Goes Mother Nature by Gabby Dawnay

Reading Age: 5 - 11

Genre: nature, illustrations, science & environment 

I really can’t recommend the Alligator’s Mouth enough, the staff in there are helpful, informative and frankly geniuses when it comes to a range of children’s literature.