By Miss Coote (Year 4 Teacher)

The Junior School Student Voice reps were thrilled to welcome some Upper Sixth students over to the Junior School Library last week, for the latest instalment of our story time sessions.

With our story time sessions, we aim to provide the girls in the Junior School with exposure to a wide range of genres. What we hadn’t envisioned is that we would be the first ones to listen to original material, written by students in the Upper Sixth! The girls loved hearing the story books and had lots of questions regarding the rhyme and structure that they featured. We already have plans for a follow up where we try to replicate the story books with our own content too.

Miss Perri who teaches A Level English said: “In A Level English Language, students have been studying the way that story books aid child language development. The class analysed The Fish Who Could Wish by John Bush and used the book as inspiration for writing their own stories. Students used their intellectual playfulness to first identify the syntactical structures used in the story, and the concepts being taught, and then mimic and bend them in their own way, to create new stories. The class then visited the Junior School library to read their story books aloud to our very enthusiastic Junior School girls who were eager to join in and share their reviews!