Y2 West Midlands
Welcome to the 2018-19 Reading Gladiators challenges. Let the reading begin!
There are schools in this group:
- Just Imagine
- Bearwood Primary School
- Lodge Primary School
- St Matthew’s C of E Primary, Birmingham
- Holyhead Primary Academy
- Percy Shurmer Academy
- Montgomery Primary
- Gilbertstone Primary School
- Glenmead Primary School
- Little Sutton Primary School
- Henley Green Primary School
- St George’s C of E Primary School, Birmingham
- Frederick Bird Primary School
- Pegasus Primary School
- Court Farm Primary School
Updates
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Sarah / The Glassmaker’s Daughter
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Nicole / The Glassmaker’s Daughter
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15th Apr 2019, 1:53pm
wha a gorgeous egg, inspired by a gorgeous book. -
Sarah / The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Plaster egg decorated by Sarah (The Glassmaker’s Daughter)
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15th Apr 2019, 1:52pm
A beautiful egg Sarah. I can see you have thought really carefully about what to include. -
Rumaythah / Perfect
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15th Apr 2019, 1:54pm A perfect egg Rumaythah. I particularly like the way you have been able to mix the same colours as the book's illustrations. -
Rumaythah / Perfect
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15th Apr 2019, 2:08pm A perfect egg for a perfect book. Well done, Rumaythah. -
Henley Green Primary School
Decorating plaster eggs drawing on our Reading Gladiators books as our inspiration
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15th Apr 2019, 1:58pm These are beautiful Henley Green - I'm sure the authors would love to see your amazing eggs too. Do share the finished versions on Twitter. -
Freddie / Perfect
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15th Apr 2019, 1:59pm This is a wonderful piece of art. The colours you have mixed are absolutely perfect! -
Freddie / Perfect
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15th Apr 2019, 2:11pm What a superbly painted egg. I can see that you were inspired by the colours in Cathy Fisher's paintings. -
Nicole / The Glassmaker’s Daughter
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15th Apr 2019, 2:12pm This is such a beautiful egg, Nicole. You must be very proud of your achievement. -
Destiny / The Glassmaker’s Daughter
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15th Apr 2019, 1:54pm Thank you for sharing your gorgeous egg with us, Destiny. You are holding it like a piece of treasure, which it is. -
Nadhrah / Planet Awesome
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15th Apr 2019, 2:02pm This is an awesome egg Nadrah! -
Horace and Harriet
Montgomery primary Academy year 2 Reading Gladiators with their designs for a new home for Horace. The children are really enjoying this book.
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15th Mar 2019, 1:05pm What great designs Year 2! Horace is spoilt for choice - I'm sure he will approve of his new abode.15th Mar 2019, 2:52pmWow ... can you design me a new house next please RG’s? -
Submission by Frederick Bird Primary School
Our Frederick Bird Poem
Our children have worked incredibly hard to create an amusing poem for our school, and specifically Year 2. They tried incredibly hard on their rhyming couplets. We hope you enjoy!
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11th Feb 2019, 2:13pmOh Frederick Bird RG's! you really made us laugh with your rhyming couplets and illustrations. Thank you so much for this submission. -
Submission by Frederick Bird Primary School
The Wolf the Duck and the Mouse at Frederick Bird
At Frederick Bird we thought long and hard about which moments in the story we thought were the most important and how the characters would be feeling in these moments. We hope we have used our eyes and facial expressions to convey these emotions to you.
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13th Dec 2018, 8:35amYou really did ! The eyes are so important in illustration and real life aren't they? We had lots of fun exploring your favourite parts of the story. Thank you for your wonderful submission Gladiators -
Submission by Henley Green Primary School
Henley Green Primary School – The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
Freeze-frame images of key points in the story, as portrayed by our Y2 Reading Gladiators.
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11th Dec 2018, 11:02am
We loved how you recreated the story like a comic book superheroes! You jumped right out of the pages to tell the story with expressions and actions.Fantastic job Gladiators! -
Henley Green Primary School – Year 2
As you can see from our wide grins, we were thrilled to be awarded the runners-up prize in The Glassmaker’s Daughter mini-challenge!
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19th Nov 2018, 3:57pm Well done! Lovely work from all of you.22nd Nov 2018, 4:24pmCongratulations Henley Green, our group thinks your display looks amazing and Amelia loves the shiny paper that looks like a mirror! We've also received our runner-up prize and we read it today in our Gladiators group - Our gladiators could tell straight away that the book was by the same author and even thought they spotted Daniela on one of the pages! -
Submission by Henley Green Primary School
Henley Green Primary School – The Glassmaker’s Daughter Display
Our Reading Gladiators have created eye-catching and persuasive displays to encourage other children in the school to read The Glassmaker's Daughter, which they all loved!
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6th Nov 2018, 5:35pm Hello Henley Green Gladiators! I was very impressed when I say your displays this week. I am sure your displays are going to encourage a lot of other childre to read the books. Well done.19th Nov 2018, 11:31am"We really like how you have written lots of information about the characters. We also love all your drawings!" From the Year 2 St Matthew's Reading Gladiators.19th Nov 2018, 3:32pmThank you! -
Guess who’s come to lunch?
Year 2 and Y4 Reading Gladiators welcome author, A F Harrold and NIkki Gamble to a slap-up lunch at Henley Green, followed by a brilliant presentation by A F real treat.
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6th Nov 2018, 10:27am What amazing hospitality! FOOD HEAVEN! We loved meeting you all. -
Submission by St Matthew’s C of E Primary, Birmingham
St Matthew’s Reading Ambassadors
We loved reading 'The Glassmaker's Daughter' so much, we created a poster to capture our predictions, discussions with family members, and favourite new words. We've shared our work with the rest of Year 2, who can't wait to have a look at this excellent book for themselves!
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6th Nov 2018, 1:39pm Just Imagine comment: Hello St Matthews Reading Gladitors. What a great picture. You look as though you have really enjoyed this book and it's wonderful to see that poster tha shows all the things that you have been doing. We are sure that the other children in your class will enjoy reading the book now. -
What colours mean to us!
In our first session about Wed Wabbit, we began by thinking about our favourite colours and what they make us think of. We built mindmaps of objects, places and feelings that we imagine when we see these colours. To end the session this week, we read the first few pages and were quick to realise that the dictator figure was not quite what we were expecting!
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5th Nov 2018, 6:53pm It's interesting that the colour red can mean so many different things. Sometimes we think about it negatively (anger, danger) and sometimes positively (love, or luck in China). I think my favourite colour is green, which can be used to refer to the environment, or to jealousy. Do you think colours are going to be important in this story? -
St Matthew’s Reading Ambassadors
We’ve loved getting to know ‘The Glassmaker’s Daughter’ so much that we’ve created a poster to share our thoughts with the rest of the class. They’ve been so captivated by our research about Venice, our predictions about Daniela, and our favourite new words that they’ve been queueing up to borrow the book for themselves!
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31st Oct 2018, 11:43am This is stunning work St Matthew's. We are so impressed here at all you've done and love the way you've summarised your learning in your poster. This is a wonderful way of recording your reading journey - well done.1st Nov 2018, 4:53pm Hello St Matthews! I hope you will show me your poster when I visit your school next week. -
Henley Green Gladiators
Our enthusiastic and thoughtful Year 2 Reading Gladiators are loving their first book The Glassmaker’s Daughter.
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8th Oct 2018, 10:52am What a lovely picture! Being both enthusiastic and thoughtful I think this group will gain a lot from being Reading Gladiators. We will enjoy watching your journey this year.9th Oct 2018, 8:52amWonderful! and look at your wonderful reading carpet. I wonder what Venice looks like on a map and the different journeys all the entertainers had to make to get to Daniela's Palace? -
Booktalk at St Matthew’s
Year 2 enjoying some some library time and getting stuck into a rich discussion about ‘The Glassmaker’s Daughter’. First impressions shared: we can’t wait to see where the year takes us!
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3rd Oct 2018, 11:04pm It’s the start of an exciting journey. I like the look of your cosy reading space.4th Oct 2018, 12:26pm Always delighted to see children enjoying Library time! It's national Libraries Week next week, so hopefully your Library will be buzzing with even more activity than usual. -
Let the challenge begin!
Hello to all Year 2 Reading Gladiators in the West Midlands. We are looking forward to hearing what you think about this year’s books. Be sure to post an update and tell us how you are getting on.
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