Our Actions: Provide opportunities for pupils to become ‘Book Buddies’ when visiting the library with their classes

We aim to:

• Promote and encourage the participation of pupils in the First Ministers Reading challenge.
• Provide opportunities for reading for pleasure for all pupils throughout the school year.

What have we achieved so far:

1. Reading questionnaire for whole school.
2. Design and ‘decorate’ P3 and P5 reading nook.
3. Created World book day posters to encourage whole school participation.
4. Wrote a list of ideas to share with classes to encourage shared enjoyment of reading.
5. Made book recommendations bookmarks for the library.
6. Created our own characters in groups and wrote a story including our characters. We then acted our stories out in small groups.

The next chapter for Book Buddies:

• We hope to have a visit from Dunblane Library.
• We are looking into an author visit.
• We are hoping to set up a paired reading scheme with parents in our renovated library.