Reading

5,000,000 word challenge...

Research shows that reading has many benefits including: builds vocabulary, strengthens the brain, reduces stress and makes you feel happy! As a school, reading is a high priority. We aim not only to teach children the skills of ‘how’ to read and comprehend, but to embed a love, passion and culture of reading for pleasure. We set our children a target of reading 5 million words before the end of the summer term and they were determined to reach their target. They have now read over 5 million words since the challenge began! Well done to all the children at Cherry Tree for taking part. Look out for our new challenges in September.

Mrs Harris and Mrs Dunn

Week 1 ^26th May 2021 – 15^th June 2021
Year groups	Most words read
Year 6 – 896,175	Vaughan – 208,979
Year 5 – 117,890	Melissa – 18,693
Year 4 – 64,240	Hosanna – 26,805
Year 3 – 115,811	Tyler – 21,307
Year 2 – 34,042	Albie – 6,805
Year 1 – 4,089	Kayleigh – 1,276
Total 1,232,247 631,456 over our 5 million word target! FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 7 19^th May 2021 – 25^th May 2021
Year groups	Most words read
Year 6 – 541,046	Kyon – 199,755
Year 5 – 102,294	Josh- 48,997
Year 4 – 80,232	Hosanna – 19,495
Year 3 – 98,847	Tyler – 23,991
Year 2 – 20,423	Tellen – 3,478
Year 1 – 4,926	Persephone – 2,121
Total 847,768 600,791 words to go!

Week 6 12^th May 2021 – 18^th May 2021
Year groups	Most words read
Year 6 – 533,097	Rosie – 159,896
Year 5 – 214,388	Lacey-Marie – 111,994
Year 4 – 153,114	Leila – 21,339
Year 3 – 77,659	Frankie – 19,019
Year 2 – 24,208	Oakley -8370
Year 1 - 7083	Persephone - 4574
Total 1,009,549 1,448,559 words to go!

Week 5 5^th May 2021 – 11^th May 2021
Year groups	Most words read
Year 6 – 380,648	Vaughan – 92,170
Year 5 – 68,404	Jahnae – 36,404
Year 4 – 103,290	Ellie-May– 31,205
Year 3 – 72,166	Frankie -14,949
Year 2 – 20,129	Logan -3186
Year 1 - 1794	Ruby Sue - 636
Total 646,431 2,458,108 words to go!

Week 3

21st April – 27^th April 2021

Year groups

Year 6 – 293,487

Year 5 – 205,460

Year 4 – 208,333

Year 3 – 33,120

Year 2 – 13,152

Total 753,552

3,630,994 words to go!

Week 4

28th April – 4^th May 2021

Year groups

Year 6 – 297,872

Year 5 – 104,973

Year 4 – 74,287

Year 3 – 37,971

Year 2 – 11,352

Total 526,455

3,104,539 words to go!

Week 1

12th April - 13th April

Year 6 – 80729

Year 5 – 7460

Year 4 – 5868

Year 3 - 6218

Year 2 – 7661

Total: 107,936

4,892,064 words to go!

Week 2

14^th April – 20^th April 2021

Year 6 – 261,196

Year 5 – 71,071

Year 4 – 103,888

Year 3 - 56,344

Year 2 – 15,019

Total 507,518

4,384,546 words to go!

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World Book Day 2021

To kick start our World Book Day week (22nd March 2021), staff at Cherry Tree Academy have given us some book recommendations. Can you guess the Masked Reader?