Parents were invited into the school to read with their children while enjoying a tea or coffee supplied by the school’s PTA.
‘It’s great to get such a good turnout. We have done this before and they were a success so we thought it would be good to do this again as one of our events for the National Year of Reading,’ said teacher Sayjan Leece.
‘Parents are really involved, which is really great because it gets them to sit and just have a minute with their children. That can be hard at home with everything going on, so it’s nice to be able to do this in school.’
Children and their parents read books together and each child was able to take a book home with them.
Ten-year-old Esme Emberton was reading a murder mystery, the ninth in a series she has been reading, with her brother, Teddy, 7, who is a reading ambassador.
‘I normally read Garfield books,’ said Teddy.
‘Being a reading ambassador means he goes and gets other children to read,’ added Esme.
Sam Nichols was at the event reading with her five-year-old son, Casper.
‘I think it’s really important to read with them,’ she said.
'He loves reading. We have read to him since he was a baby, but it’s also really nice to come and see what other children are reading, too.’
The children’s ‘reading rivers’ were also on display.
‘They each had to pick a day over summer and note down every time they read, and it could be anything, just to show them how much they read,’ said Ms Leece.
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