Children’s Book Week starts on the 6th May. Here at Brays we’ll be celebrating all things books with the launch of our ‘Super Six’ collections, a virtual author visit and coffee morning. Read on to find out more.
New ‘Super Six’ Book Collections
We will be starting the week with the launch of the newly updated ‘Brays Classics’ which is a set of 6 books for every classroom. These ‘Super Six’ collections feature a diverse range of picture books and poems. They will take pride of place on display in the reading area of each class room. Each class within each phase will have their own set of books, and there will be a number of cycles for each phase, so the pupils won’t end up with the same books continuously.
Here are the books for each phase:
Formal
| Poetry | People need people – Benjamin Zephaniah | Michael Rosen – Book of very silly poems |
| Traditional | The Magic Paintbrush – Julia Donaldson | Orchard Aesop’s Fables – Michael Morpurgo |
| PSHE | All are welcome – Alexandra Penfold | The huge bag of worries – Virginia Ironside |
| Diversity | Polonius the pit pony – Richard O’Neill | My Hair – Hannah Lee |
| Non-fiction | Where in the world? – Buster Books | Little People Big Dreams Series – (Stevie Wonder) (Change this each year) |
Semi-Formal
| Poetry | The Puffin Book of first poems | Smile out loud – Joseph Coelho |
| Traditional | Funny bones by A & J Ahlberg | Anansi and the Golden Pot by Taiye Selasi |
| PSHE | Grandad Wheels – Going for Gold | Bodies Are Cool: A picture book celebration of all kinds of bodies |
| Diversity | Loud by Rose Robbins | Hats of Faith – Medeia Cohan |
| Non-fiction | My First Heroes – sport – Campbell | My Big Book of Transport – Moira Butterfield |
Pre-Formal
| Poetry | Off by heart – Roger Stevens | Shark in the park – Nick Sharratt |
| Traditional | The Three Billy Goats Gruff – Campbell First Stories | The very hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle |
| PSHE | Pablo at the zoo by Pablo | Super Duper You – Sophy Henn |
| Diversity | Amazing by Steve Antony | My world, your world – Melanie Walsh |
| Non-fiction | Colours Colours Everywhere – Julia Donaldson | Kew – Fruit and veg -Tracy Cottingham |
EYFS
| Poetry | Animal Farmyard Hullabaloo- Giles Andreae | Fox in socks – Dr Seuss |
| Traditional | The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson | Stephen Tucker – Jack and the beanstalk |
| PSHE | It’s Okay to Be Different (Todd Parr Classics) | Campbell Big Steps – Lets brush our teeth |
| Diversity | And Tango makes three – Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell et al. | Mommy, mama and me – Leslea Newman |
| Non-fiction | People who help us – Wood & John | My First Nature – Let’s go exploring – DK |
Coffee Morning
On Friday 10th May 9.30am – 10.45am We’re hosting a family coffee morning where we will be hosting a reading workshop. Families will get to see our new Brays Classics, find out all about how children learn phonics through the Read, Write Inc. scheme and how we support children who are not yet ready to start.
Virtual Author Visit
All of our children are meeting Grandad Wheels on Friday 10th May. We will be watching the screen as he reads one of his books and answers our questions. Granddad Wheels will also be helping us launch our competition to design or decorate a wheelchair. We can’t wait to see the childrens wonderful designs!