Clockhouse Primary School
Reading at Clockhouse
Reading at Clockhouse Primary School
'I think Clockhouse is a fantastic school because we get to read great books and because of our superb library.'
Taylor (Year 5)
At Clockhouse Primary School we follow the Jolly Phonics approach for the teaching of phonics.
Books are banded across the school to ensure a progressive approach to reading. This is used to support both the teaching of Reading at school and the Home / School Reading approach. Readingeggs and Readingeggspress are also used as an online tool to further secure improvement. This is used by the children both at school and at home.
We love to read!
Reading is very important at Clockhouse, look at these picture of our reading environment.
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120 Books to Read before you leave Clockhouse
We are very excited to launch a new reading initiative to get everyone excited about reading!
Each year group has been given 15 different books, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry books to read each year.
Each child has been given a reading tracker booklet. When they have read one of the books, their teacher will tick it off.
Children who read...
- 5 books receive a Bronze Certificate
- 10 books receive a Silver Certificate
- 15 books receive a Gold Certificate.
Children will be awarded their certificates during a reading assembly on a Friday. Some books link to the topics children will be focusing on this year, some will be used as part of their English learning, and some have been chosen because we think the children will enjoy reading them.
The children will be given lots of opportunity to read these books in school from reading it as their class novel to choosing it from the School Library. However, you can also help by encouraging children to read these books at home by visiting the local library or including them in birthday or Christmas gifts. When you do read a book at home with your child, please dojo the Class Teacher and they will tick it off the tracker. Please see above for the books for each year group!
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Our Book Swap Shop
A big thank you to one of our School Governors Mrs Wood and her husbsand for making our very own 'Book Swop Shop'.
The children and their families are loving using it!
It's Book Hunt Time!
Following a reading project undertaken by some of our Year 6 children, they presented their learning in assembly and then created a book hunt to celebrate the end of their project.
All the children from Year 1 to Year 6 got to take part and loved hunting down the book title.
The children had a great time. Well done to the three winners from each year group.
At Clockhouse, we LOVE to read!
Our Amazing School Library - The Enchanted Forest
At Clockhouse we just love our Enchanted Forest.
Recently some of our fabulous adults have spent time reorganising it for us and we are now loving using it!
We are sure you will agree it is rather fabulous. We cannot wait to add our amazing book ends in too!
Book Day 2026
We all had a great time celebrating World Book Day. We loved our families reading with us, dressing up, celebrating all things books and getting to share stories with different year groups.
Thank you for helping us to all look fabulous!
Book Day 2023
We had a great time celebrating World Book Day.
We loved working with author David Mason and also, some of us enjoyed dressing up if we wanted to!
Book Day 2024
We all had a great time celebrating World Book Day. We loved learning new fairy tales, sharing them with other year groups and making our wooden spoon characters!
Storyteller comes to Clockhouse
As part of the 2018 National Storytelling Week, a real author came to Clockhouse to tell us all lots of different stories. We all had a great time!
Thank you Marcus Rashford
All the children in Year 4 were lucky enough to receive this, very recently published, book form Magic Breakfast.
Marcus Rashford has inspired the charity by setting up the ‘Marcus Rashford Book Club’. He wants to ensure that every child has access to books at home as he believes reading is such an important part of life just like we do at Clockhouse
