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St Joseph's PS, Madden, Co Armagh

Miss Rock's Accelerated Reading Awards

7th May 2020

Well done to all of the boys and girls in Primary 5 and Primary 6 who completed excellent work on our Accelerated Reading Program this week. As a class, you read a total of 42 books altogether this week. I was delighted to see a lot of you reading David Walliam’s books this week! As a class, you read 511,876 words, well done!

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

Primary Five

Ellen McKenna – 182,266 words

Sean Mallon – 46,302 words

Mya Grimley – 28,192 words

Lily McElvanna – 24,099 words

Annie Smith – 23,987 words

Primary Six

Tara Gray – 89,781 words

Philip Carr – 57,883 words

Aoibhríona Grimley – 16,044 words

I’m delighted to see our second Primary Five pupil has reached his target. Well done Sean Mallon, I hope you enjoyed reading your David Walliam’s book this week!!

I was also happy to see another pupil's name popping up on my computer screen for becoming a word millionaire. Congratulations Tara Gray, I know you were working towards this! 

Finally, Ellen McKenna has now exceeded 400% in her personal reading target and has also become a triple word millionaire this week! What an achievement Ellen!! You continue to surprise me every day with your fantastic effort on Accelerated Reading and I really love to see how much you enjoy reading.

 

This week, in Primary Five we have three star readers. Well done to ... Mya Grimley, Odhrán McGeary and Cadhla Moore.

Mya Grimley has been working steadily towards reaching her target from the beginning of home schooling and has achieved 58.7% of her target! Mya read a fantastic 28,192 words this week. Well done Mya, keep up the super reading!

Cadhla Moore has also been working steadily towards reaching her target each week and has managed to maintained an accuracy of above 90%! Cadhla is making a fantastic effort with all of her homeschooling activities so keep up the super effort Cadhla!

Odhrán McGeary has been working really hard at home with his reading and he has also maintained a very high accuracy of 97% in all of his quizzes so well done Odhrán. Odhrán has almost read 800,000 words this year so I hope you will aim to become a word millionaire Odhrán because you definitely deserve it with the brilliant reading you’ve been doing this year.

 

This week, my Primary Six star reader is ... Philip Carr.

Philip Carr reached his target last week but he didn’t stop at that instead he decided to exceed his target and is now on 121%!! I can tell Philip must have loved the books he was reading this week as he read 9 Dirty Bertie books in total and scored above 90% in all of his quizzes so well done Philip!

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.

Stay safe everyone

Miss Rock