Rec English | West Boldon Primary School

World Book Day 2026!

7th March 2026Miss K. Wilkinson

What an incredible day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day at West Boldon Primary! Our school has been filled with amazing characters from the wonderful world of books, and we have been blown away by the creativity and effort that has gone into the costumes. The children – and staff! – all look absolutely fantastic. From classic storybook characters to modern favourites, it has truly brought our love of reading to life across the school.

As part of today’s fantastic World Book Day celebrations, Mandy and her amazing catering team also created a truly magical Alice in Wonderland-themed lunch for all of our children! The dining hall was transformed into a wonderful Wonderland feast, and the food looked absolutely unbelievable. From the creative presentation to the delicious treats on offer, it was a lunchtime our children will definitely remember!

In the afternoon, celebrations moved outdoors to our fantastic fire pit area, where the children enjoyed a truly special reading experience. Wrapped up in the fresh air, they toasted marshmallows over the fire while chatting with friends about their favourite stories and characters.

The children also had the chance to relax with a delicious hot chocolate while spending time reading their books together — the perfect way to celebrate a day dedicated to the joy of reading.

Days like today are a brilliant reminder of just how important reading is. Reading opens the door to imagination, builds vocabulary, develops creativity and allows children to explore new worlds, ideas and adventures. Encouraging a love of books at a young age helps set children up with skills that will benefit them for life.

A huge well done to everyone for making such a fantastic effort today, and thank you to our families for helping create such brilliant costumes. We hope today inspires even more children to pick up a book and discover their next great story!

World Book Day 2024

7th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We love reading at West Boldon Primary so we especially love world book day! The children (and staff) looked fabulous in their outfits and had a lovely day after Miss Ingoe’s class lead an assembly based on reading. We can’t wait for next year.

Reception Summer 2 Focus Text

15th June 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Reception are looking at “The snail and the Whale”. We have been looking at the characters and using adjectives to describe them. We have looked at the rhyming patterns in the book and tried to think of our own rhyming words to fit the pattern. We also created speech and thought bubbles for the two main characters at different parts of the story.

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Reception Summer 1 Focus Text

26th April 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Reception are reading the story The Paper Dolls for their Literacy topic. We are making our own paper dolls like in the story. This week we are going to be creating a memory jar to display with our favourite memories. It will include our writing and a picture to go with it.

Watch the video of the story below:

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Reception Autumn 2 Focus Text

4th November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Over the course of the Autumn 2 half term, Reception are looking at journey stories with a main Focus on ‘Handa’s Surprise‘ by Eileen Browne.

It is a story about a little girl who puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend.

The children are going to focus on retelling stories and engaging in conversation about the story. The children will be using their phonics to help them write simple sentences.

Watch the video of the story below.

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Pumpkin Soup!

15th October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This week in Reception we have been learning about lists. We began by reading the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and even made our own soup! We then made a list of the ingredients that we used, remembering to put each ingredient on a new line and using our phonic knowledge to hear the sounds that we needed to write. So next time we’re feeling hungry, we’ll know what to put in our soup!

Reception Autumn 1 Focus Text

25th September 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This half term in Reception our focus text is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

So far the children have listened to the story and practised retelling it, ordered pictures showing the story events and drawn their favourite part. Over the coming weeks they will be identifying and describing the characters and settings. They are also learning the key features of texts, such as title, author, text and illustration.

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Autumn 2 – Jack and the Beanstalk

17th November 2019R Smith

This term Reception will be studying the story Jack and the Beanstalk.

We will learn to tell a simplified version of the story in out Talk for Writing sessions, we will create our own actions and draw story maps.

As we become more familiar with the story, we will begin to think about the characters in the story. We will recreate the story in our small world area, on our stage and no doubt will build some fabulous castles using our wooden blocks and loose parts.

The Little Red Hen

16th November 2019R Smith

We enjoyed story mapping and performing the story “The Little Red Hen”

As part of our work we followed some instructions to make bread.

The children measured out and mixed the ingredients, before leaving the dough to rise.

The children must be master bakers in training as the cooked bread was so soft and fluffy.

We all enjoyed dour ‘school-cooked’ bread rolls with some butter and a smidge of jam!

Dear Zoo

15th November 2019R Smith

Our first Talk for writing story was Dear Zoo. The children were introduced to the skill of story mapping and using actions to help recall and retell the story.

After creating our own signs and using some Makaton signing to learn the story as a class, the children were confident enough to perform the story on the stage.

We then began exploring the innovation stage, where we change and adapt the story. The children created great new versions with lots of other zoo, farm, wild and domesticated animals.