Children's author Ross Montgomery's final visit to our school this year was an enjoyable one for Key Stage One on Monday.  He read one of his picture books, Space Tortoise, to the phase, followed by workshops across the day.  The children all thoroughly enjoyed it.  At the end of the day, some lucky children who bought a book received a signed copy from Ross himself!  It has been such a pleasure to have Ross as our Patron of Reading this year and we look forward to seeing him again soon....

To celebrate the launch of Essendine's brand new Reading Den and the FIFA Women's World Cup, we have started reading a live read story written by Tom Palmer. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1:00pm, we are reading a chapter from “Rocky and The Rovers​“, which is being written as the World Cup progresses. Each new chapter is released the morning of the reading session, and the story uses real-life events and scores from the World Cup to drive the narrative.