World Book Day 2024

We had an amazing time on World Book week this year! We started with a Reading Breakfast for our parents and children to enjoy some yummy food and spend time reading. Then we had a visit from one of our favourite authors Sabine Adeyinka. Finally we all took part in book quiz competition!   

We raised over £200 from the sales at the Book fair in May.  The Reading Ambassadors choose how to spend this money and bought some amazing books for the library, including a firm favourite, graphic novels.

                                                               World Book Day 2023

Another great World Book Day was had by all here at St Anne's and GA. We clearly have some very imaginative parents as there were some amazing book outfits walking through the door on Friday morning.

We had a visit from the author Adam Baron who ran creative writing workshops with years 4,5 and 6.  While the younger children had the chance to watch some very well practised fairy tale performances from the older classes. 

We finished the day with a pop up book shop brought in by Brick Lane Book Shop just for us to experience.

What a day!

                                       Early Years Story Time

We have been running parent and child story time sessions on the first Tuesday of each month with our Nursery and Reception children for the last few months. It has been a great success and the children have enjoyed it immensely. These short, morning sessions have given parents (and nans and aunties etc) the chance to see their child in the school setting- sitting beautifully enjoying a story and then have the opportunity to read with them and their friends. If you haven't had the chance to join us yet, please do!

 World Book Day 2023

Not long until our next World Book Day 3rd March.

We are looking forward to:

• A visit from the Author Adam Baron - parents are invited to assembly.
• A Pop up Book Shop from Brick Lane Book Shop after school!
• Dressing up as your favourite book character.
• A 'create the scene in a shoebox' or 'wooden spoon character' competition in class.

                                                           Reading for Pleasure at Home

Schools across the country closed in March because of Covid19 and children began learning at home. While children are unable to read for pleasure together at school there are lots of ways to continue with our love of reading.

Here are some ideas:

• Here you can find some of our favourite picture books to read and listen to online if you have already read all of your books.

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games

• A classic ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ told by Michael Rosen himself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds

• The lovely people that get us involved in World Book Day have set up loads of free audio books for nursery up to teenagers at https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/  Definitely worth a look!

• A lovely story read aloud about Benedict the Bear, his favourite treat honey and the bees! https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/please-please-the-bees-read-by-rashida-jones

• For something really funny, David Walliams’ Elevenses are short audio stories about hilarious characters https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses-catch-up

• One of the talented Tower Hamlets school librarians, Laura, is storytelling online- check her out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhVPXWWatPk&feature=youtu.be

• I know lots of St Anne’s children love a non- fiction books https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/   is an amazing go to for all kinds of topics whether you are doing a project or you just want to read for fun! Take a look at the Stone Age man faces!!!

Keep reading! (or listening  )

                                                                 World Book Week 2020

In March, we celebrated World Book Week in style at St Anne's! We welcomed our Patron of Reading, Neal Zetter, who spent the day running fun, poetry workshops with classes. On Tuesday we transformed our library into a 'Read and Relax Zone'; The children came into the library and read with different year groups in our special story tents and then enjoyed hearing and getting involved in a story. The children also enjoyed dressing up later in the week as a book character and taking part in a competition to decorate their classroom in the style of their favourite book front cover. What a week- Looking forward to next year!

Poetry Week at St Anne's

In November we celebrated our own special Poetry Week at St Anne's. All children from Nursery to Year 6 had the opportunity to read lots of great poetry, write poetry, create poetry based art and learn one poem off by heart. All children performed their poem to the rest of the school and parents on the Friday and it was a great success!  We were also lucky enough to have a visit from our Patron of Reading, poet Neal Zetter who delivered an assembly and ran workshops with some of our children. What a great week- check out our tweets!    

                                                                 Must Read Club 2019 

We were very excited to start our Must Read Club again this year! We join other children in Tower Hamlets in challenging ourselves to reading the six shortlisted Must Read books.   

Here, some of the children from our Must Read club are discussing the book Wild Robot by Peter Brown. We also had the opportunity to attend the Book Award Finale at Canary Wharf where we met some of the authors!

                                                      Men in School Project

We have run five exciting events over the last year:

1. Bring Your Dad to School Day- father figures were able to visit their children’s classroom and then spend the rest of the afternoon with Wapping FC coaches and refreshments afterwards.
2. Breakfast Together- This was a great opportunity for father figures to come in and enjoy a delicious breakfast with their child/ren and read together some of reading matter supplied i.e. comics, newspapers, picture books or non-fiction books.
3. Word Up- We invited the spoken word artist Adisa, in for an event where he worked with father figures and their children to create and deliver poetry/rap. 
4. Mad Science- We invited the company Mad Science in for a fun filled science show/workshop that the children enjoyed with their father figures.
5. Maths Marvels- Father figures and children were able to take part in a number of different maths themed activities including pattern making with fruit and 60s club challenge.

These have been much more successful and well supported than we had imagined they would be. We are looking forward to our finale event Music and Marshmallows!!

                                                           The Launch of our Project- 'Dads' in School' 

We had an amazing time at the launch of our 'Dads' in School' project yesterday when we started our year of activities focussing on bringing male role models into the school.

At our our first event, 'Bring your Father Figure to School Day', dads, grandads, uncles and other father-figures had the opportunity to see their child in their classroom setting, to practise their football skills with coaches from Wapping FC and then to enjoy tea and snacks in the sun. We had a great time and were very impressed by the amount of father figures who supported this afternoon of activities. Thank you! We look forward to our next event!

   World Book Day 2019

We have had an amazing week here at St Anne’s celebrating World Book Week. On Monday, we had a visit from a professional storyteller, Liz Fost, who entertained and engaged us all!

On Tuesday, we opened a pop up book shop in school and all children were able to choose a book to take home. We finished the week with our ‘tell a story’ session on Friday when parents and other adults heard children tell the stories they had been learning all week. A big well done to everyone!

The members of the book club got the opportunity to attend the award finale at Canary Wharf's East Winter Garden and even performed an amazing presentation based on one their favourite books from the short list 'The Wolf Wilder'.

But the winner of the afternoon was the author Jo cotterill who wrote the winning book The Library of Lemons, which we love at St Annes! If you haven't read it yet, head to the library!

St Anne's Must Read Book Club

Twelve children from years five and six were selected to be part of the Must Read Book Club this term, a group in which they read the Tower Hamlets Book Award shortlisted books. They challenged themselves by reading six books (one a week!) that they wouldn't usually read and had fun discussing and debating them. Well done! 

                                                       Shadowing the Kate Greenaway shortlist.................

It has been all about the pictures in the library recently- we have been holding school-wide shadowing lessons of the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist.
Pupils 'shadowed' the judging process for best illustrations in a children's book and looked at the links to Amnesty International and Human Rights.

We were very lucky to have the 8 beautiful books in our library for pupils to review & we all VOTED for our favorite illustrations...

Our winner was Wild Animals of the North.

We had a special day of activities in the library with activities linked to the shortlisted books.

                                              Jacqueline Wilson Trip on World Book Day

Some children in year four had the fantastic opportunity to go and see the famous author Jacqueline Wilson. They loved listening to her speak and buying signed copies of her books. Two competition winners had the chance to go and get their books personally signed by Jacqueline Wilson.

Year 5 had the fantastic opportunity to go and see Micheal Rosen perform some of his best poetry at the Old Vic Theatre.  

Our poem of the month in the library is 'I am Hungry' by Michael Rosen, it is very funny!

See him read it here:

We are happy to announce that Namira in year 5 won a prize in the Tower Hamlets Creative Writing Competition- Well done Namira!!.

As part of her prize, Namira got to attend a creative writing workshop with the award winning author of 'Smart', Kim Slater. Here she is meeting Kim Slater along with Kenzie also in year 5.  

                                                                Poem of the Month

Our new Poem of the Month is called 'Dreaming of Summer' by Ken Nesbitt and reminds us of the summer we are looking forward to.

Our School Library

Poem of the Month

This months poem of the month is:

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae

In memory of the lives lost during the World Wars

The 'Must Read' Book Review Competition 

This month Namira Sandhu in Year 5 has won the 'Must Read' Book Review Competition. Click the picture below to read her review of 'Smart' by Kim Slater

Sam Gayton 

We were lucky enough to have the author Sam Gayton - known for novels such as Hercufleas & The Snow Merchant - visit our school and Library!

During Sam's visit he did an exciting interactive assembly with KS1 & KS2 getting the children to give input to his new book Lillput which is a follow on from Gullivers Travels.

Sam also did workshops with Year 5 and 6 showing them ways to create characters and story openings, as well as joining the Book Club at the end of the day to give a Q+A Session, along with book signing.

Thanks for coming in Sam!