Love of Reading

2025 Summer Reading Challenge

The Summer Reading Challenge starts on Saturday 5th July and runs all through the summer holidays. This year's theme is 'Story Garden'.

Visit one of our local libraries and tell them your child would like to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge.
The librarian will sign up your child and give them a collector folder. Your child will set a reading goal.
Your child can borrow and read books, eBooks and audiobooks for their Challenge. They can read anything they like!
The library will provide stickers and rewards for your child’s reading.
There is a gift for every two books that are read, up to six books.

We look forward to having lots of certificates delivered to school in the autumn and would love to win the trophy for the most participants.

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Blue Peter Book Badges

Blue Peter Book Badge

In the Summer Term of 2024, every child across the school had the opportunity to apply for their Blue Peter Book Badge.

The children learned how to review texts and created a book review for their favourite book. This was also the children’s final piece of writing for their next teacher to see.

The reviews were sent to Blue Peter, then in the Autumn Term, lots and lots of children received their Blue Peter Book badges at home.

Here are just a few children, wearing them proudly.

Reading Websites and Shops

Collins e-books

To access your Big Cat ebooks, click on the image above. Enter the username and password provided by school to access your library. Once logged in, you will land on the library. Here you will see any books that have been assigned by your teacher. You can access a resource sheet for each book by clicking the three dots, then “Resources”. To open one of the books, select either the cover or the “Read” button.

School Reading List

This website has recommendations of new and classic books for children at primary school.

Books for Topics

This image links to age-related booklists to help you to find the best books recommended for each age and stage of development. Whether you are looking for the best picturebooks for EYFS, first independent chapter books for KS1 or top recommended novels for Year 6, this is the place to find children’s book recommendations by age. The website also has booklists sorted by topic, recommendations of new books and much more.

Virtual School Library

Words for Life is created by the National Literacy Trust, funded by Kindred², the Department for Education, and supported by UK publishers. It provides parents, children and young people with activities and support to improve their language, literacy and communication skills from home. The National Literacy Trust's Virtual School Library, also funded by Kindred², is a free platform for primary schools, offering pupils access to free books and activities from the most popular children's authors.

Love Reading

Sign up for a free account and read extracts from recommended books before buying them. Try reading something by an author you haven't read before!

Toppsta

Find out about lots of books and read reviews. You can even win free copies of new books so you can write a review yourself.

Sefton Borrowbox

Enjoy your favourite e-books, e-audiobooks, digital newspapers and magazines with Your Library Sefton on BorrowBox, Libby and PressReader. Your library card gives you free access to download e-books and e-audiobooks on BorrowBox, e-audiobooks on Libby and digital newspapers and magazines on PressReader.

Oxford Owl

If you set up an account with Oxford Owl, you will have access to over 100 free, tablet-friendly ebooks that are banded in the way we do in school. There are also a wide range of other activities for Maths and English.

Pritchards Book Shop

Pritchards Bookshop has been proudly serving the Crosby community for over 40 years and has received The Independent Bookseller of the Year Award.

Pritchards are dedicated to creating a shop that works with local schools, authors, and the community beyond.

Open Monday - Saturday 9am-5pm

13 Moor Ln, Crosby, Liverpool L23 2SE

Email: pritchards-crosby@zen.co.uk

0151 931 1642

Kingsley & Co

Kingsley & Co is a literacy project of Ykids Children's charity in Liverpool. Named after Victorian Explorer, Mary Kingsley, Kingsley & Co aims to inspire and equip young explorers using the power of 'story'.

Open Thursday - Saturday 10am-4pm

The Palatine, Lower Mall, Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, L20 4SW Tel: 0151 345 5670

Books for Keeps

Books for Keeps is an online magazine which has reviewed hundreds of new children’s books each year and published articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on the website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.

Write Blend

Write Blend is a bookshop and café at 124 South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. L22 0ND

The children's section has one of the finest selections around of books for readers of all ages. There is also comfortable seating to allow young bibliophiles to inspect their purchases and plan their next ones!

Click on the image to visit the website and look out for their author signings and special events.

Opening Times

9am - 5pm

Monday to Saturday

Tel: (0151) 928 1303

Celebration Days

8th September - International Literacy Day

Since 1967, UNESCO have organised International Literacy Day (ILD). Celebrations have taken place annually around the world to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more literate and sustainable society.

Find out more about International Literacy Day

13th September - Roald Dahl Day

Celebrated on Roald Dahl's birthday. He was born in 1916.

Find out more about Roald Dahl

3rd October 2024 - National Poetry Day

National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration on the first Thursday of October that encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends. Each year we come together because voices, words and stories help to bridge understanding in our community.

Find out more about National Poetry Day

12th October 2024 - National Bookshop Day

Usually celebrated on the first Saturday in October. Look out for special activities ij our local bookshops.

Find out more about national Bookshop Day

25th January - Burns Night

Celebrations take place around the world for Scotland's poet Robert Burns, born 1759.

Find out more about Robert Burns

1st - 9th February 2025 - National Storytelling Week

A week-long celebration of stories - spoken or written - encouraging creativity and self-expression enabling children to tell their own stories. Click on the button to check for the latest news about National Storytelling Week.

Find out more about National Storytelling week

Thursday 6th March 2025 - World Book Day

The mission of World Book Day is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them.

Find out more World Book Day

14th - 30th March 2025 Shakespeare Week

Shakespeare Week is a national annual celebration giving primary school aged children opportunities for enriching and enjoyable early experiences of Shakespeare. It is one of the pathways to Shakespeare provided by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for people of all ages and stages of interest. Remember that the Shakespeare North Playhouse has opened in Prescot.

Find out more about Shakespeare Week

21st Mar - World Poetry Day

Organised by UNESCO every 21st March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

Find out more about World Poetry Day

23rd April - Shakespeare's Birthday

Shakespeare's birthday is particularly celebrated in his home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Find out more about Shakespeare

12th June - Anne Frank Day

Jewish Anne Frank hid in 1942 from the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands. Two years later she was discovered. In 1945 she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She wrote a secret diary, which was published in 1947. It has been read by millions of people.

Find out more about Anne Frank

Saturday 14th - Saturday 21st June 2025 - Independent Bookshop Week

Independent Bookshop Week is a celebration of independent bookshops in the UK highlighting the vital role independent bookshops play in their communities. Look out for special activities ij our local bookshops.

Find out more about Independent Bookshop Week

"...that they may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10

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