Reading In The Community
Our school community is very important to us at St Peter's and we feel it very important to invest in the community we have around us. We have found that reading can be used as a vehicle to unite and connect others in our area. We have taken part in many reading projects in all parts of the community ranging from visits to our local library to visits to our local nursing home. These visits have become so successful that they have expanded beyond reading and onto many other avenues such as charity fundraising events and community celebrations.
MOSS COTTAGE NURSING HOME
Wow! What started in Summer 2018 has continued to grow stronger and stronger throughout the years is our links with Moss Cottage Nursing home. Our children and staff alike have come to create close links and on regular occassions we have class visits to see the residents at the nursing home. Our visits have always centered around reading whether it was reading recent written work from the pupils; reading themed books to the resistents and then expanding to singing Christmas carols and then we have been invited back on several occassions for birthday celebrations and seasonal events such as Valentines day.
We have often even made our local paper:
https://www.questmedianetwork.co.uk/photos/world-book-day-2020/i/st-peters-18/
Recently we recieved a personal letter from our MP Angela Raynor congratulating us on maintaining our commmunity links in Ashton - this can be found in the below slides.
We are very proud to use reading as a vehicle for community links and we look forward to showcasing what we are doing with Moss Cottage in the future.
25.03.2020: St Peter's children have sent messages of love to those resistents in Moss Cottage, who are suffering from the Cornona Virus - see images on gallery below
