
YR Super Readers
A huge well done to our first Super Readers! We hope you enjoy your story bags for the week! #RPReading
5The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. The national curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
English at Roby Park Primary is taught through the use of high quality texts where the link between Reading and Writing is made clear, using Literacy Counts Ready Steady Write and Ready Steady Read units. These are planned out ensuring progression across the year groups and engaging in exciting provocations for Writing and Reading. We plan in a wide range of speaking and listening and Writing activities as well as making links between grammar and spelling.
Click below to find out more about our engaging English curriculum and our Recommended Reading Lists:
Below are recommended reading lists for each phase. If you are interested in buying/loaning books from the library, have a look at the lists below for exciting, engaging texts that your children will enjoy:
A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others, and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society.
Our reading expectations are for children, in all year groups, to read daily for just 10 minutes. It is important parents/carers build in reading time each day in order for children to progress in their reading fluency and stamina.
The books in Reading Planet are designed to appeal to the tastes and interests of children who are starting to learn to read, as well as those who are becoming fluent readers. The books include a variety of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays, written by experienced educational and children’s writers. All the books have been carefully levelled according to book banding and other criteria, to ensure gradual progression in difficulty and each eBook features an optional audio recording (with each word highlighted as it is read).
As well as interesting characters and storylines, the books have a number of helpful features to support your child in reading, including quizzes (see below). Completing these will help you to ensure that your child is getting full meaning from their reading.
Your child’s teacher will allocate weekly ebooks to be read and will be able to track how your child is doing in the quizzes through a teacher dashboard.
Nursery – Y3 (with a few children in Y4-Y6) will also have physical books sent home, along with a reading log and book bag to keep the books in good condition. Books must be returned in their reading bags please.
Please return the reading log daily, so the class teacher and parent can use it as a form of communication. Reading logs can be used for:
Children who bring physical books home are expected to read them and return them on their book change day which is outlined below. If books are not returned, only ebooks will be allocated. After significant investment in to our reading materials, it is important books are looked after.
Book changing days are Monday for all classes.
Your children’s login details have come home but if you have any issues, please email password@robyparkprimary.co.uk or speak to yuor child’s class teacher.
You can log in with their username and password and:
Centre ID: 6034814
Once logged in, click on the ‘Reading Planet Online’ icon then click on the ‘Open’ button to launch the book on your screen.
Each book has one or more ‘checkpoint’ quizzes that appear at intervals throughout the book. They are designed to check the understanding of the text up until that point and are indicated by the animated quiz icon.
At the end of every book there is a longer quiz that checks overall understanding of the text. As with the checkpoint
quizzes, your child clicks on the animated quiz icon to launch the end-of-book quiz.
For each end-of-book quiz they complete, children will receive a bronze, silver or gold star, based on the proportion of correct answers they scored. These rewards can be viewed in the ‘My achievements’ section of the child’s dashboard.
3 Marks |
4 Marks |
5 Marks |
Bronze = 0-36% Silver = 37-72% Gold = 73-100% |
Bronze = 0-50% Silver = 51-78% Gold = 79-100% |
Bronze = 0-59% Silver = 60-79% Gold =80-100% |
If you have any difficulties in using the resource, or need some support in getting started, please see your child’s teacher and we will be happy to help you.
Below are some parent guides to support you:
A huge well done to our first Super Readers! We hope you enjoy your story bags for the week! #RPReading
5Reading is Fun! Thank you to all the parents and carers that came into read with us this morning, we can wait for next Thursday! #RPEnrichment
5A massive congratulations to our Nursery Super Readers this week! We hope you enjoy your reading bags, we can’t wait to hear all about them on Wednesday! #RPEnrichment #readingforpleasure
4This week in Nursery we have been learning all about superheroes. In English we have came up with our own superhero names and drawn ourselves as superheroes.
4Congratulations to our our EYFS Super Readers! You get to take our new, amazing story bags home filled with books and a teddy. We hope you enjoy them this week and return on Thursday. Who will be out next winners? #superreaders #rpreading
5After reading our new literacy book, ‘Juniper Jupiter’, we created our own Superhero Mini-Me! We thought of some fantastic superhero names.
1We had a special delivery this week that contained some clues to help us make predictions about our new vehicle text, Hermelin @Bonzetta1. We predicted that a detective may be involved but the cheese left us a little confused!
9In English, we used a dictionary to find the definition of new vocabulary from our example text. Once we understood the meaning of the new vocabulary we created our own sentences using them @LiteracyCounts1
26We are thrilled to have @PlusOneCIC returning to Roby Park to deliver the Help Your Child Thrive Programme to Y3 & Y4 parents in January.
See the letter below for more details and find out how to secure your place: robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/upl
18This week in Nursery, we completed our big write! We made a list of things our pet star needs to be able to get back up into the sky. We came up with some fantastic ideas such as a bed, a blanket, a dolly to play with and even another star incase it feels lonely!
20Last week Nursery completed their big draw, as a class we all drew things our pet star needs to allow him to go back to the sky. We decided to make a list, we drew a plaster, bath, bed, blanket and a love heart!
16In English we have been reading ‘A Story Like The Wind’ by Gill Lewis. The children explored characters thoughts and feelings, as they freeze famed making the treacherous journey across the stormy seas with little supplies.
27Thank you to all of our grown ups for joining us for our night walk! Reception had a fantastic time spotting lots of stars and different lights in the sky. We especially loved ending our night with a lovely warm hot chocolate!
17This week Nursery have been super busy painting their own pet stars from our new text ‘My Pet Star’. We used the paint to create an outline, we then painted our stars yellow not forgetting to add eyes and a smile!
14Something special happened this week in our Nursery garden! We found lots of clues in bags, we took them inside and opened them. We found a bath, bed, blanket, sunglasses, food and a torch. We had lots of questions about what they may be for?
22In forest school today, we explored the area & observed the seasonal changes. We also worked collaboratively to complete team challenges which helped develop our communication & teamwork skills. #RPForestSchool
9We then went on our very own treasure hunt around our school grounds! We looked high and low to try and find something ‘extra special’ to us! We found lots of things including flowers, different leaves, a bug, a mini car, gold… and even an old sock!
10This week we found some treasure left in our classroom… along with a star in a jar! We wondered what our new story could be about. #RPEnglish
9Today we had a very special delivery to year 1 – a box full of interesting items that we were able to use to make predictions about our new vehicle text. A tower, a spell book, long hair and a black pointy hat! What could our story be?
18This week, Nursery completed their “Big Write”! They all drew a picture of Leaf Man travelling over different animals or places from our Lead Man story.
28In English this week we had a mysterious paper boat & letter arrive in our classroom. The letter was from a boy called Tom. We can’t wait to start planning our response so we can give him the best advice to support him on his voyage.
11During continuous provision, our focus during phonics lessons has been to enjoy our Rocket Phonics books independently. We have been choosing books and getting comfy to enjoy some reading time whilst working on our segmenting and blending skills!
23Today we have been planning our ‘Opening Octopus’. We have loved singing the song to go along with our story friend, using our new vocabulary! @LiteracyCounts1 @RPEnglish
9Over the past week Nursery have been sorting the leaves they collected by colour. Nursery explored each leaf to see what colours they could see. Together we created a ‘Big Draw’ using the Leaf Man book to help identify each animal the Leaf Man passed when travelling.
21We were so excited to start writing our own narrative today based on Old Bear by
We used different resources to help with our writing and were very proud of what we produced – the adults were VERY proud of you all too! Fantastic work year 1!
20Year 4 really enjoyed our D.E.A.R time. It’s a great opportunity for the children to dive into their books and promote a love of reading #RPReading
23Reception have loved taking on the role of illustrators. They created fantastic illustrations to go alongside our example text in English!
15This morning in Nursery, something happened. We found a Leaf Man hiding in our garden. We all went to have a look at it and decided to bring it inside. To get it warm we used a blanket and discussed how Leaf Man might have got here and where it might have come from.
29There has been a lot of reading in year 1 this week! We have been spending time reading with and to our friends, enjoying stories on our Toniebox and exploring some of our Rocket Phonics books too! Well done year 1
31This week we found a hole in our sensory garden… we wondered what might be down there! We have loved exploring ‘The Something’ and discussing all of our different ideas!
19For reading time today, our class picked Chocolate Cake by @MichaelRosenYes from the library. We loved it SO much, we wanted to see it read by the author himself…and just look how much it was enjoyed! Definately a new favourite! #RPReading
28We immersed ourselves in our new vehicle text, A River by @marc_martin, by making predictions based on what we could hear, see & touch. One group said, “We think the story is set in a jungle because we can see large leaves, a tiger & a parrot.”
15We have been discussing how we thought characters in our new text would be feeling when their efforts to rescue Old Bear from the attic were unsuccessful. We created freeze frames to show these feelings from worry, upset, anger and determination!
27We had our first DEAR time session this week when we dropped everything and choose a book from our library to read either independently or to share with our friends! Well done year 1!
31We love reading in Year 1 so much that we have started getting excited and enthusiastic to read stories to our whole class! Well done for showing resilience, confidence and displaying your love for reading – we are very proud of you! #RPReading
97Thank you to our grown ups who joined us last week and this week for ‘Reading is Fun’. We love sharing exciting stories with you and growing our passion for reading! #RPReading #readingforpleasure
124Thank you to our amazing grown ups who joined us yesterday for ‘Reading is Fun’. It was lovely to invite you in to read with your child! #RPReading #RPEnrichment
36We did a some acting today and created a series of freeze frames to show a part of our vehicle text ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ by
An important aspect of English is to edit and improve your writing. Today we worked collaboratively to up level our diary entries #RPEnglish
54As part of the Million Steps Challenge, @cashforkidsliv teamed up with publisher Simon & Schuster to offer all participating primary schools the chance to win a Library Pack of 20 books. Following the end of the challenge all schools that signed up were put into a draw, and…we’re thrilled to let you know that our school is a winner! Books are on their way to us and will go into our reading shed for our children to enjoy
68We enjoyed spending some time outside today for book club. We shared our stories with each other and enjoyed the sunshine together!
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
50We have been focusing on the end of our story ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ and considering how Erin may have felt when none of the adults believed her that Black Rock was a sea creature! We created freeze frames showing the characters feelings
47One of our most popular books in our reading area at the moment is Tell me a Dragon by @JackieMorrisArt. Lexie chose it as our class read today and said, “I love the pictures and all the different places you can find dragons.” #readingforpleasure #RPReading
15Nursery have been fantastic at retelling the story of ‘The Snail and the Whale’. They have used lots of new vocabulary and were able to remember lots of key parts of the story! #RPEnglish
48Come and join us TODAY for our SEND Coffee Morning. Mrs Ryan, our Specialist Outreach Teacher, will share some tips and ideas on supporting your children with reading and spelling. Come and have a pastry and a chat, we look forward to seeing you then.
67For this week’s DEAR time, we dropped everything and chose a book from our library to either read alone or share with a friend! We love reading in year 1 and especially enjoy exploring our library filled with books from a huge variety of genres!
49Year 1 love making the most of our Rocket Phonics books at any opportunity! We have enjoyed reading ours this week as we have been coming in of a morning! Well done Year 1 for all being remarkable readers! #RPReading
55We enjoyed sharing lots of stories together! We compared books and shared our favourite ones. It was lovely to see Reception children reading their stories to Nursery!
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
44We had the opportunity to use VR headsets in our English lesson to immerse ourselves into our Ancient Egyptian setting. We also applied what we discovered into our History learning too! #RPEnglish #RPHistory
45Nursery and Reception were so excited for EYFS Book Club! They loved choosing their favourite books to share together and it was lovely to see the children so engaged with their stories!
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
51A MASSIVE thankyou to @Year6RobyPark who spent some time with us today for #WorldBookDay2024. We really enjoyed you reading stories with us and you made reading our new books lots of fun. We have already been asking when we can do it again! #RPEnrichment
59In English today we created freeze frames to help us describe how Syd might have felt when grandad revealed what was behind the metal door in his attic. #GrandadsIsland
43WOW! We have raised £379.20 for brand new books from our sponsored reading event and £104 for @comicrelief. Books will be going into our new reading shed for children to enjoy at playtimes. Thank you so much! @OPAL_CIC
56We hope the children enjoyed their sponsored reading event & we look forward to finding out how much sponsor money we receive in which will go back into the children receiving books to take home & keep through our ‘Remarkable Reader’ initiatives. Thank you for your support.
65To celebrate #WorldBookDay2024, we wore our comfy pyjamas to school and had the opportunity to read books to
52To celebrate #WorldBookDay2024 we came to school dressed in our pyjamas! We enjoyed spending time reading with
For #WorldBookDay2024 today, we spent time with another class and having a story read to us by Mr Couling. We really enjoyed sharing stories with year 4 and having stories read to us too and it was made even better by all being cozy in our pyjamas! #RPEnrichment
46For #WorldBookDay we came to school in our pyjamas! Miss Clarkson shared her favourite book with the class then we took our reading books outside to read, finally we shared the reading books from our library with the children from
53For #WorldBookDay2024 we wore our comfiest pyjamas and read with @Year2RobyPark. We shared books and listened to new books being read to us by someone different. #RPEnrichment
35As part of #WorldBookDay2024, year 6 enjoyed a fantastic session with @WestEndinSchool. We explored the William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night. From this, we created freeze frames and acted out key scenes. #RPEnrichment
46Children enjoyed wearing their comfy pyjamas and showing off their amazing story plates. We also enjoyed reading a story with
. #WorldBookDay2024 #RPEnrichment
40Look at our fantastic paper plate characters for #WorldBookDay2024 So creative!
54We celebrated #WorldBookDay2024 by coming to school dressed in our comfiest pyjamas! We spent the day reading our favourite stories and even had a special visit from @Year6RobyPark. Thank you for reading stories with us, we had the best time! #RPEnrichment
52As part of our #WorldBookDay2024 activities, the fantastic @WestEndinSchool paid us a visit. Vicki taught us the story of Twelfth Night. We created different freeze frames and acted out well known scenes. #RPENGLISH #RPENRICHMENT
44Year 4 had a fantastic session with @WestEndinSchool to gain information about William Shakespeare and created freeze frames of key parts of the twelfth night #RPEnrichment
44As a part of #WorldBookDay2024 , we had the amazing @WestEndinSchool who allowed us to explore the play Twelfth Night. We created different freeze frames and acted out an important scene as a class.
40This week, we have enjoyed immersing ourselves in a variety of texts during “Drop Everything And Read”. #Readingforpleasure #RPReading
45Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers We hope you love your new books from our machine Who’ll be our winners next week? #RPRemarkableReaders
53Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers We hope you love your new books from our vending machine
Who will be our winners next week? #rpremarkablereaders
In English we have started our new book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. Today, we worked collaboratively to recreate freeze frames of scenes from the story, thinking carefully about the characters feelings and actions
49Children have loved exploring our @LiteracyCounts1 book Little Red. They created Grandmas house in our construction area and retold the story collaboratively. #RPEnglish @OPAL_CIC
38This week, year 5 have examined these items to make predictions about our new book. We then used a single picture to create a class poem. #RPEnglish
49Today Year 4 took on a definition and synonyms challenge against the clock using the vocabulary from the example text the children used an iPad to find their definitions and a range of synonyms #RPEnglish
51We welcomed our R – Y2 families today for a phonics workshop to demonstrate how phonics is taught at Roby Park. We modelled lessons to show how these look, provided resources to use at home and shared the fantastic resources our children have in school!
65We were joined by our wonderful families for our phonics workshop today. We shared the exciting Rocket Phonics resources our children use in school. We modelled a short lesson and children loved reading with their grown ups. #RPReading #RPPhonics
58Thank you to our families who could join us today for ‘book and a brew’. The children loved inviting you into class and sharing some of their favourite stories with you! #readingforpleasure #RPReading
53Thank you to all of our Year 4 & @Year3RobyPark families who were able to attend ‘Book and a Brew’ It was great to be able to discuss how reading is incorporated across the curriculum, the benefits of @ReadingPlus and how we promote reading for pleasure. #RPReading
49Thank you to all of our Year 6 & @Year5RobyPark parents and carers who were able to attend ‘Book and a Brew’ It was great to be able to discuss how children view reading, how it is incorporated into the curriculum and reading for pleasure. #RPReading #readingforpleasure
52Thanks to the @Year1RobyPark & Y2 families who joined us for book & a brew! We talked about the benefits of reading for pleasure, how reading looks at Roby Park & our amazing new book areas, before the children joined us for some shared reading
55Today year 1 and @Year2RobyPark welcomed in our families for book and a brew! We talked about the benefits of reading for pleasure, how reading looks at Roby Park and our wonderful new book areas, before having the chance to share our favourite book with our adults
48Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers! We hope you love your new books from our vending machine. Who will be our winners next week? #RPRemarkableReaders
63Year 2 love their new reading area & with over 100 high quality texts to choose from they were excited to get reading. The Comet by @Joetoddstanton & We are all Wonders by @RJPalacio were great reads so far.
41Congratulations to our first Remarkable Readers of 2024. Children can win a book from our vending machine which is full to the brim of the best titles or the weekly Remarkable Reader bag by showing a great effort with reading at home & school. Who will be next week’s winners?
61We came back to school to an amazing new reading area within our classroom. We feel very lucky and are really excited to have an amazing range of brand new, high-quality texts that we can explore independently or with friends! #RPReading
56We stumbled across a suitcase this week, filled with clues to help us to make predictions about what our new English book may be about! Our ideas were fantastic and we used the clues to explain our predictions!
61It was a difficult choice for Y5 this week when we relaunched our amazing reading areas within our classroom. Children could choose from over 100 high quality texts.
56This week, we have launched our amazing new library area within our classroom. We are very thankful to have an amazing range of brand new, high-quality texts. The children can’t wait to complete the spring reading challenges #RPReading
54This week, Year 3 loved beginning to read their new books. We had the difficult decision of choosing a book from over 100 new fiction and non-fiction texts and we are excited to complete our Spring Term reading challenge!
57This week, we have launched our amazing new library area within our classroom. We are very lucky to have an amazing range of brand new, high-quality texts. We explored the new area and chose our favourite book for “Drop Everything And Read” #RPReading
52Congratulations to our final Remarkable Readers of 2023 Enjoy your new books
Well done to our most recent Remarkable Readers. You have all shown positive attitudes towards your reading. Keep it up!
79We enjoyed some fantastic Christmas stories with a tasty hot chocolate and biscuit. Our favourite was ‘The Christmas Selfie Contest’ and we think that our selfies definitely would have won the competition! #RPReading #readingforpleasure
73#LiteracyCountsLoves Shout out to @Year1RobyPark @RobyParkSchool and @MrsListerStJ @StJamesCEsth
for sharing photos of their children using the planning circles. Do you use #ReadySteadyWrite? We’d love to be tagged in your Tweets so we can see all the exciting learning you get up to. Find out more: https://t.co/QE3eWDKFtm
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71Today we shared some more fantastic stories with our friends. We then enjoyed some Christmas stories together!
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
73A huge well done to this week’s Remarkable Readers. We hope you enjoy your books. #RPReading
78We have been really enjoying having our Rocket Phonics reading books on our tables so that we have opportunities to read throughout the day and to use our phonics knowledge to help us to segment and blend and to read new stories!
71EYFS Book Club Today we shared some fantastic stories around a cosy fire
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
64We had a fantastic night star gazing we were able to see lots of stars, the moon and even caught a glimpse of Jupiter! Children loved using their torches to explore forest school. We finished off with a delicious hot chocolate. #RPEnrichment
61What a fantastic night for our EYFS Star Gazing Night Walk We spotted lots of stars in the sky, the moon and even Jupiter! The children loved exploring forest school in the dark and we discussed what we found. We ended the night with a lovely hot chocolate #RPEnrichment
65We have been busy today planning our own twist on a traditional narrative after looking at Rapunzel by @bethanwoollvinWe used our planning circles and then spent a little time reading back the stories we have planned before we start writing them! @LiteracyCounts1 #RPEnglish
61EYFS Book Club We enjoyed some more fantastic stories in book club. It is great to see our children showing a great passion for reading!
#RPReading #readingforpleasure
55Reception have loved our @LiteracyCounts1 text Star in the Jar after having a surprise visitor. It inspired children to get creative! We have also enjoyed exploring the text using our story friends. #RPEnglish
52Who do these items belong to? How are they connected? What was being made? Are they from the past? What is he dreaming about? Why does the dream control him? Does he return? So many questions from Year 5
64We have been busy today planning our own twist on a traditional narrative after looking at Rapunzel by @bethanwoollvin
We used our planning circles and then spent a little time reading back the stories we have planned before we start writing them!
63Today we arrived at school to find a pet star! We read the story ‘My Pet Star’ and thought that we need to look after our new friend to help him get his glow back! We used the clues that we found to help him! #RPEnglish
54The children loved getting cosy to explore some new books together! They loved talking about their books with their friends #RPEYFS #RPReading
63This week we went on a hunt to find some clues relating to our new story… We found glitter trails leading to bags containing clues in our outdoor area! We found a plaster, a cookie, a torch, a bed and a bath. We wonder what our new story could be #RPEnglish
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In English Y2 we’re given an illustration from their vehicle text and had lots of fun creating freeze frames imagining that they were in the picture. They then used clues from the book to predict what the story could be about. #readysteadywrite
53D.E.A.R (Drop everything and read) has been a great way for the children to take time out of the day to read, share and explore new books with their friends ?? #RPReading
41Todays D.E.A.R time took a spooky turn…?? #RPReading
55This week we have been learning more about ‘Leaf Man’. We discussed the different parts of a book and sequenced the story. The children were fantastic at retelling the story of ‘Leaf Man’ using lots of new vocabulary! Well done, Nursery ?? #RPEnglish
58DEAR TIME ?Drop it and read this week has given us the opportunity to take time out of our day to read, share and explore new books, and books linked to our topics, with our friends ?? @OpenUni_RfP #RPReading
45In English, Year 4 have been learning about newspaper reports. We learnt about how important research is for journalists. Due to this, the children worked collaboratively to research different marine mammals in preparation of writing their own newspaper report ??️ #RPEnglish
48This week we heard a rustle in our outdoor area… it was Leaf Man! We thought about how he got there and how we could help him ? We brought him inside to give him a home as we thought he might be lonely! We can’t wait to discover more about him ?? #RPEnglish
53We enjoyed immersing ourselves into a book of our choice, during Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) ?? #RPDEAR #readingforpleasure
49Reception had their first Drop Everything and Read! DEAR ? They loved sharing their chosen book with a friend and looking at the illustrations. #RPReading
35Reception could not believe their eyes when they found a HOLE ?️ on our school grounds. They have lots of creative ideas for how it appeared and who could have made it. They are very excited to continue exploring, The Something by #RPEnglish
28Drop Everything And Read ?? Today Year 4 dropped everything they were doing and enjoyed some reading for pleasure. #RPReading
58Drop everything and read!?? We dropped what we were doing on Friday and chose a book of our choice to explore by ourselves or with a friend #RPReading
59In English we have been immersing ourselves in our new book ‘Old Bear’. Various items had been left in our classroom for us to explore and we used these to help us to come up with some fastastic predictions about what could happen in our story!?
46We worked together to recreate scenes from the book ‘Old Bear’, using what we have already read to show how the characters may be feeling and what they would be doing. We even rescued Old Bear from high up in the classroom and were very excited!?
53Year 3 worked amazingly in English today writing their own kenning poems about the Iron Man. Metal cruncher, night time hunter, nightmare maker!
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