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About Myrtle Park Primary

Myrtle Park is an 'outstanding' 3-11 primary school in Bingley, West Yorkshire (OFSTED May 2007). We work closely in partnership with parents to ensure that we cater for the needs of all our children. We aim to provide excellent education for our children. We are proud of our hildren’s achievements, but are always looking for ways to improve. We would be delighted to discuss our work and our children’s achievements with you, so please feel free to call in to see us.

E-Book Reviews

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

As part of World Book Day 2012 pupil’s at Myrtle Park developed a collection of peer reviewed books to widen their range of reading choices and tastes.  Here are a few of those featured on the Kindles… TITLE: Teacher’s Pet … Continue reading →

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E-Biographies

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

As part of Year 6 topic links with Black History and Literacy, a collection of biographies have been uploaded to the Kindles featuring people from Rosa parks to Barack Obama to Tinie Tempah!  Here are just a few of the brilliant examples that … Continue reading →

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Kindles go continental!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

As part of Myrtle Park’s Comenius links with schools in Chateauroux and Gutersloh, we have been writing and illustrating a shared text. The first part of Chapter 1 has been uploaded to the Kindles and children have been able to read/view … Continue reading →

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Attitudes to reading survey

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

The results of the on-line ‘Poll Daddy’ attitudes to reading survey are in!

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Kindles are…GO!

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

The latest news on the Myrtle Park Primary ‘Kindle’ project is that we will be focussing on engaging readers as opposed to tracking attainment in the first instance.  The reasoning being that by getting children involved in reading, the progress … Continue reading →

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Kindle Reading Project

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Myrtle Park Primary

Over the next few weeks the Innovation Centres and Myrtle Park Primary School are going to be involved in a reading project using Kindles. The intention of the project is to discover whether the use of Kindles in the primary … Continue reading →

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