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St Joseph's PS, Madden, Co Armagh

Miss Rock's Accelerated Reading Awards

15th May 2020

Good morning boys and girls in Primary 5 and 6. You made brilliant progress on our Accelerated Reading program again this week! I am so proud of all of you fantastic little readers at home.

As a class, you read a total of 60 books altogether this week. I’m delighted to see some of you are becoming interested in certain authors and reading lots of their books so well done! As a class, you read 600,050 words, well done!

A number of pupils have also achieved exceptionally high word counts throughout the week:

Primary Five

Odhrán McGeary – 92,853 words

Ellen McKenna – 75,904 words

Eva Toal – 71,073 words

Ciaran Woods – 61,823 words

Oisin Coyle – 37,851 words

Primary Six

Ethan McCann – 44,834 words

Philip Carr – 44,228 words

Tara Gray – 34,321 words

I’m delighted to see two more Primary Five pupils reached their targets this week. Well done Ciaran Woods and Oisin Coyle. I know both Ciaran and Oisin have found books they’re really interested in and enjoying so keep up the fantastic reading at home boys!

I’m delighted to see our second Primary Six pupil has reached her target. Well done Clodagh Gallagher, I hope you enjoyed reading your Dog Man book this week!!

 

This week, in Primary Five we have two star readers. Well done to ... Christopher Corr and Ellen McKenna.

I was delighted to see Christopher Corr working hard on his Accelerated Reading this week and maintaining an accuracy of 90%. Well done Christopher, keep up the super reading!

Ellen McKenna has gained achievement after achievement since the beginning of home schooling on our Accelerated Reading program. You have been working tremendously well at home Ellen. You really do amaze me every week with your love for reading!

 

This week, my Primary Six star reader is ... Aoibhríona Grimley.

Aoibhríona Grimley has been working consistently on her Accelerated Reading every week and has now achieved 71.6% of her target and read 20 books altogether! Good girl Aoibhríona!

I really enjoyed giving out all of these very deserving awards this week. If you haven’t appeared in this news article, I look forward to seeing your name popping up on my computer screen next week for great reading. Remember to take a well deserved break this weekend!

Stay safe everyone

Miss Rock