Urgent Messages - Junior

 

WJS Holiday Reading

 

Please remember that these next few weeks are above all a holiday, and a very well deserved one. It is a time to enjoy aspects of life that are sometimes difficult to fit into a busy term; to see friends and family who have been busy with their own term time activities and to rest, recuperate and reflect. These life skills are as much a part of  “Learning for Life” as the many academic, creative, social, spiritual and sporting challenges that make up life at Wellington Junior School.

 

Outlined below are some guidelines for your child to help prepare for the next academic year. It is neither exhaustive nor compulsory. Please also enjoy the book lists that Mrs Beaupre has created for us.

 

To start, some general guidance:-

• Keep reading and talking about books
• Join your local library
• Play games – cards, dice, board games to practice strategic thinking and numeracy
• Stay organised, whether packing for the beach or taking water if you go out for a day trip

 

Some guidance for each year group:-

 

Nursery: - getting dressed, puzzles and games, taking turns

Reception: - letter and number formation

                    keep a scrapbook of interest/holiday

Year 1: - hand writing practice card

               play with 100 square

Year 2: - holiday diary

               ball games counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s

               telling the time

Year 3: - times tables games

               reading book marks

               spot the change when shopping

Year 4: - holiday postcards

               following recipes

               practise those tables

Year 5: - sudoku and reasoning activities

               timetables and travel routes

               reading poetry and contemporary classics

 

The following websites are some of the many that can offer even more ideas.......

woodlands

topmarks.co.uk

bbc

 

But, as this page started........ relax, have fun and see you in September!

 

Summer Reading Lists ~ Year 1 - 6

Year 1

A Bear called Paddington – Michael Bond

A Lion in the Meadow – Margaret Mahy

Colin and the Wrong Shadow – Leigh Hodgkinson

Cops and Robbers – Allan Ahlberg

Funny Bones – Alan Ahlberg

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – Lynley Dodd

Mister Magnolia – Quentin Blake

My Cat likes to hide in Boxes – Eve Sutton

Owl Babies – Martin Waddell

Poppy and Max and the Fashion Show – Sally Grindley

The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss

The Elephant and the Bad Boy – Elfrida Vipont

The Emperor of Absurdia – Chris Riddell

The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson

The Secret Path – Nick Butterworth

Two Can Toucan – David McKee

We’re going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen

Where the Wild Things are – Maurice Sendak

Winnie at the Seaside – Valerie Thomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2

But Mum! – Ann Bryant

Cat Tales – Linda Newbery

Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown

Fungus the Bogey man – Raymond Briggs

Katie Morag Delivers the Mail – Mairi Hedderwick

Mrs Wobble the Waitress – Allan Ahlberg

Oliver Moon and the Dragon Disaster – Sue Mongredien

Owls – Sarah Courtauld

Polar Bear – Conrad Mason

Stories of Dogs – Russell Punter

The Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine

The Dragon Painter – Rosie Dickens

The Man whose Mother was a Pirate – Margaret Mahy

The story of Trains – Jane Bingham

Whizz – Bang Winnie – Laura Owen

Wizard Woof – Anne Cassidy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 3

A Surprise for Princess Ellie – Diana Kimpton

Cows in Action – Steve Cole

Dawn Light – jenny Oldfield

Disappearing Desert Kittens – Ben M Baglio

Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson

First Term at Silver Spice – Ann Bryant

Flat Stanley –Jeff Brown

Hiccup How to Train your Dragon – Cressida Cowell

Jack and the Broomstick

Michael Lawrence

Magic Ponies – Sue Bentley

March of the Armoured Beasts – Rex Stone

Mr Majeika – Humphrey Carpenter

Mrs Butler Verses –Allan Ahlberg

Princess Katie and the Silver Pony – Vivian French

Sea-Cat and Dragon King – Angela Carter

The Hundred Mile an hour Dog – Jeremy Strong

The Invisible Boy – Sally Gardner

The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy

Trema the Earth Lord – Adam Blade

Underwater Magic – Sue Mongredien

You are a Bad Man Mr gum – Andy Stanton

 

Year 4

A Dog so Small – Philippa Pearce

A Flying Birthday Cake – Louis Sacher

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Araminta Spook My Haunted House -  Angie Sage

Charlie Small Pirate Galleon – Charlie Small

Connor’s Eco Den – Pippa Goodhart

Fergus Crane – Paul Stewart

Lost the Hundred Mile an hour Dog – Jeremy Strong

Midnight for Charlie Bone – Jenny Nimmo

Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – Andy Stanton

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – Robert C O’Brien

Not Just a Witch – Eva Ibbotson

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat – Chris Riddell

Sniff – Ian Whybrow

Stig of teh Dump – Clive King

The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo

The Dancing Bear – Michael Morpurgo

The Firework Maker’s Daughter – Philip Pullman

The Midnight Fox – Betsy Byars

The Sheep Pig – Dick King Smith

The Tin Man – Damian Harvey

Why is Snot Green? – Glen Murphy

 

Year 5

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin

Blood Fever – Charlie Higson

Boy – Roald Dahl

Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke

Eagle of the Snith – Rosemary Sutcliffe

Famous Mysteries – Adam Sutherland

Fire Bed and Bone – Henrietta Brandford

Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson

Krindlekrax – Philip Ridley

Matilda – Raold Dahl

Nasty Nature – Nick Arnold

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thieves – Rick Riordan

Pony Magic – Holly Webb

Red Wall – Brian Jacques

Short and Scary – Louis Cooper  

Skullduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy

Storm Breaker – Anthony Horowitz

The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket

The Bursting Balloons Mystery – Alexander McCall Smith

The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper

The Killer Underpants – Michael Lawrence

The Mouse and His Child – Russell Hoban

The Wolves of Willoughby Place –Joan Aitken

Toby Alone – Timothee D Fombelle

Unbelievable – Paul Jennings

Watership Down – Richard Adams

Year 6

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code – Eoin Colfer

Barnaby Grimes – The Curse of the Night Wolf – Paul Stewart

Carrie’s War – Nina Baden

Crocodile Tears – Anthony Horowitz

Dark Fire – Chris D’Lacey

Dark Side – Tom Becker

Eragon – Christopher Paolini

Gideon the Cutpurse – Linda Buckley-Archer

Goodnight Mr Tom – Michelle Magorian

HIVE – Mark Walden

Here Lies Arthur – Philip Reeve

Holes – Louis Sacher

I am David – Anne Holm

Johnny and the Bomb – Terry Pratchett

Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo

My family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell

Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo

Reavers’ Ransom – Emily Diamond

Rise of the Heroes – Andy Briggs

Sabriel – Garth Nix

Silver Fin – Charlie Higson

Skullduggery Pleasant – Playing with Fire – Derek Landy

Smith – Leon Garfiel

Stoneheart – Charlie Fletcher

The Amazing Maurice – Terry Pratchett

The Machine Gunners – Robert Westall

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Troy – Adele Geras