Y6 library
15-09-2025
Year 6 enjoyed browsing through the new books in our school library and have all chosen a brand new book to read!
Reading at St Jude’s
Please also visit our ‘English‘ curriculum page to find more information about reading.
Upcoming Events
Book Fair – 2nd – 9th October 2024
World Book Day – 6th March 2025
World Poetry Day – 21st March 2025
Past Events
The Book Fair visits St. Jude’s
Our families enjoyed spending some time looking at the books at the Book Fair and buying new books for the children to enjoy at home.
National Poetry Day
On National Poetry Day, we were lucky enough to have Matt Goodfellow, a poet, come to visit our school and work with each class. We were all very excited for him to visit our school. You can follow him on Twitter at Poet@EarlyTrain.
World Book Day
World Book Day is a celebration of reading, authors, illustrators and books. It is a worldwide celebration of books and reading, marked by over 100 countries all over the world.
Last year we celebrated by asking children to dress up as their favourite book character and bring to school their favourite book. We had reading activities which took place throughout the day and there were prizes for the most original outfits. All children were given a voucher to exchange for a book.
Reading Chatter
Selecting a new library book
05-09-2025
Year 4 visited our school library today to take a look at our fantastic new library books. They each chose a book to take back to class.
First week in Preschool ❤️
05-09-2025
🎉 Our First Week Back Was AMAZING! 🎉
What an incredible start to the year, little stars! ✨ We’ve made new friends 👯♀️, explored exciting activities 🎨🧩, and had SO much fun together! From playing games 🏃♂️ to learning new things 📚, every moment was filled with laughter and smiles! 😊💖
Here’s to a year full of new adventures, growing together, and making even MORE memories! 🌈🚀 We can’t wait to see what next week brings! 🎉🌟
#FirstWeekFun #BackToSchool #PreschoolAdventures #LearningAndLaughing
Book Giveaway
17-07-2025
After receiving 500 new books for our new school library, the children were given the opportunity to take home any books that we no longer had room for. Almost every book was taken by the children to show how much they love reading as a school!
Year 4 World Book Day 📚❤️
07-03-2025
Look at our fabulous costumes from World Book Day this year!
Y1 World Book Day
06-03-2025
A wonderful day in Y1 celebrating World Book Day. We enjoyed talking about our favourite books and redesigning a new front cover for them.
Wigan Library Services
13-12-2024
Reception had a visitor from Wigan Library Services, they learned about what the local libraries have to offer and found out how to become a member of a library. The children also enjoyed joining in with fun, interactive stories.
Making potions 🧪❤️⭐️
04-11-2024
This morning in preschool we have been reading one of our termly stories “Meg and Mog” and in the story they made a potion, so preschool decided what an amazing idea it would be to make our own potion. We worked together to mix, pour and stir our amazing potion. We will keep checking our potion to see how it changes from a liquid to a solid. We look forward to updating you with our marvellous creations. ❤️
Story time with Mr Wilson. 📚 🐻 ❤️
01-11-2024
Mr Wilson came to preschool and he brought one of his favourite stories with him, We’re Going On a Bear Hunt 🐻. The children were so excited, we thought we need to document this special moment in our floor book. ❤️
Book Fair
07-10-2024
Thank you to everyone who has come along to support our school book fair so far! A lot of books have been sold already but there’s still one last chance to come along tomorrow and pick up an exciting new book to enjoy!
Reception Read Write Inc parent meeting
13-09-2024
Reception parents were invited into class to read with their child. Parents then had the opportunity to meet with Mrs Wilkinson to find out about our phonics scheme ‘Read Write inc’. During the meeting, parents were given a reading pack to help with their child’s reading and writing at home.
