Chapter One for Our Reading Buddies

Our Year 3 and Year 6 children have officially begun their reading buddy journey! The children have been paired up, and every Friday, our Year 3 pupils have the opportunity to read to their Year 6 buddies.

The Year 6 children have been eagerly anticipating the start of this collaboration for some time, so there was lots of excitement as they finally got going! It was wonderful to see them embrace their new responsibility, but even lovelier to see just how much they genuinely enjoyed spending time with their younger buddies, listening, encouraging and supporting them with their reading.

This is a lovely opportunity for the children to build relationships across year groups, grow in confidence and develop a shared love of reading. We are looking forward to seeing these friendships develop and watching our reading buddies make the most of their time together throughout the year!