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World Book Day 2022
Everyone dressed up as their favourite book character for World Book Day.
Click here to see some of their fantastic costumes.
Sponsored Reading Challenge
To encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we are running a school sponsored reading challenge in association with World Book Day between Monday 28th February and Friday 4th March 2022. Children are sponsored to complete as many of the reading challenges in the grid as they can for the duration of the event. All the money raised will go towards brand new books for our school. Please see the letters below for the challenge grids.
Infant reading challenge - World Book Day 2022.pdf
Junior reading challenge - World Book Day 2022.pdf
2021 Winter Reading Challenge
Georgina in Year 4 Wins Windrush Poetry Competition
Congratulations to Georgina, in Year 4, for winning the Windrush Poetry Competition run by and the Barbados Museum & Historical Society in association with Reading Museum. The prize was a box of books fom the Barbados Museum Gift Shop.
Georgina's poem was entitled "Windrush Waters".
Celebrating World Book Day
World Book Day 4th March 2021
It's World Book day on the 4th March.
Your teacher will be setting lots of activities for you to do this week. Please sign on to Microsoft Teams and look in the new World Book Day Channel.
Year 2020 Poem by Lilly in Year 5
Please enjoy the amazing poem Year 2020 written by Lilly in year 5.
Click on the photo to watch:
Click here to read
Megan is a World Record Breaker

Lily's Poem - These Strange Times

Lucy's Favourite Food Poem
World Book Day 2020
As part of World Book Day this year everyone took part in a Sponsored Reading Challenge, one of the activities was to dress up as your favourite book character. Parents came into Rainbow Class to share books with the children to complete one of the other challenges for Infants - to read a book with someone.
Click here to see some of their fantastic costumes.
Junior reading challenge.pdf
Infant reading challenge.pdf
Harry Potter Night 2020
On Thursday 13th February Long Lane School was transformed into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry for the Triwizard Tournament. An amazing time was had by all. There were prizes for best costumes, a Sorting Ceremony, magical games, crafts, readings from our favourite books and the Triwizarding Quiz. A big thank you to Mrs Rushent for organising the event and to all the other staff that helped out.
Click here for more pictures from the evening.
World Book Day 2019
On Friday 8th March everyone at school dressed up as their favourite book character to celebrate World Book Day.
Click here to see some of their fantastic costumes.
Author Visit for Year 6 Book Club and Reading Ambassadors 2019
On 4th March Year 6 book club and reading ambassadors visited St. Andrews to listen to author and poet Nick Toczek.
The author gave a presentation that included his own stories and some magic!
He also gave a few ideas for creative writing:
- The irritate poem ( what really irritates you...)
- The 6 word story (ie Jesus lived, died and rose again.)
- The vampire poem - using rhyming words for each letter of the alphabet eg, appetite, bite, fright, etc
Harry Potter Night 2019
On Thursday 7th February Long Lane School was transformed into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry for the evening. An amazing time was had by all. The students were sorted into houses, practiced spells and designed socks for Dobby. A big thank you to Mrs Rushent for organising the event and to all the other staff that helped out.
Click here for more pictures from the evening.
World Book Day 2018
On Thursday 1st March everyone at school dressed up as their favourite book character to celebrate World Book Day.
In year 5 lots of characters from Street Child amongst others.