Reading 

We are committed at Swaffield School to inspiring our children to love books and reading. All children will be part of a guided reading carousel every day, which encourages interactive reading and ensures your child/children will be read with by a teacher at least once a week. Swaffield's KS2 Reading Ambassadors promote reading across the school.  

Children are expected to be reading every day in every year group and this should be recorded in their reading diary. Feel free to speak to your child’s teacher if you have any questions or concerns.     

Swaffield Library is a magical place    

As part of our World Book Day 2024 celebrations, we ran a bookmark competition which invited children to design a bookmark which would be given to all children taking part in the day's Book Swap. It was a huge success with some fabulously creative entries which made the Reading Ambassadors job of selecting two winners hugely tricky! These are the winning designs:

Reading At Home

You can read our guide to supporting your child with reading at home on our Homework page.

Reading Lists

• HERE is the suggested Reading List for Nursery and Reception
• HERE is the suggested Reading Lists for Year 1
• HERE is the suggested Reading List for Year 2
• HERE is the suggested Reading List for Year 3 
• HERE is the suggested Reading List for Year 4
• HEREis the suggested Reading List for Year 5
• HERE is the suggested Reading List for Year 6

Reading For Pleasure At Swaffield

We are passionate about books at Swaffield and encourage the children to enjoy reading for pleasure.

Our classrooms have lovely reading corners where children can choose from a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books which they can enjoy reading in an interesting and relaxing environment. 

Swaffield Library

We have a lovely new school library, thanks to support from The Literacy Trust's school libraries programme. It is filled with wonderful books for children to borrow as you can see in this short video. 

All children have regular opportunities to borrow books from the school library and take them home. We have a team of Reading Ambassadors from our older year groups who, after applying for the role and a successful interview, now play an important role in looking after our books and library as well as keeping track of books that are loaned and returned. 

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Past Events:

Book Trust Visit

The Book Trust's Read for My School Competition was launched here at Swaffield with award-winning children's author Robin Stevens, whose Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries series has been a big hit.

Read all about it here and watch the ITV coverage here.