Reading 

ENGLISH NATIONAL CURRICULUM – READING

 Children who are avid readers, who truly love to explore books, are the children who will go onto achieve best later in life. In fact, evidence from the OECD found that reading enjoyment is the most important criteria for children's educational success. But more than that, reading is the gateway to the imagination and to learning across the curriculum.

At Key Stage 1 much of our teaching focus is on the mechanics of learning to read through daily phonics using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds.

Alongside this we encourage reading for pleasure through:

• A book club once a week in our Early Morning Work Session - a chance to share recommendations and think about other books that will interest us
•  A weekly trip to our beautiful school library with a chance to change books, and sit and read for pleasure
• High quality story time read by the teacher to the class once a day
• A range of 'sharing books sent home every week' to be read by either parent or child for fun
• Daily English lessons from the 'Power of Reading' scheme which focuses on high quality and very enjoyable books
• Create attractive reading corners
• Keep a 'magpie list' of vocabulary and phrases that we love from the books that we read

In Key Stage 2 our lessons take the shape of:

• Guided Reading four times a week - (whole class shared text - reading in pairs, reading in unison as a class, reading individually). Questions shaped by the teachers are designed to cover off the key skills including inference, retrieval, opinion, prediction, evidencing.
• Book Club once a week in our Early Morning Learning Time to celebrate what we have been reading and to make recommendations
• Daily story read aloud by the teacher to the whole class
•  A weekly trip to our beautiful school library with a chance to change books, and sit and read for pleasure
• High quality classroom libraries (we run an annual sponsored read to buy in more books)
• Daily English lessons from the 'Power of Reading' scheme which focuses on high quality and very enjoyable books
• Create attractive reading corners
• Keep a 'magpie list' of vocabulary and phrases that we love from the books that we read

Take a look at our Reading Charters to learn more

Early Reading Charter

Reading Charter

 Reading at Home

Each day your child has access to a reading book from school to bring home and read and a PACT Book (Parents, Children and Teachers reading together) in which to record your child’s continuing reading journey. Set out below are a set of whole school revised expectations for parents, pupils and teachers that will help us continue to work together more effectively

 Expectations of Parents

• To ensure your child brings their book bag and PACT Book to school every day
• To establish a daily regular reading routine for your child at home
• To contribute to the PACT Book daily if your child is in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 and once a week in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6
• To discuss the book your child is reading using the guidance and targets given by teachers
• To continue to read aloud to your child in all Year groups

Expectations of Pupils

• To bring your book bag and PACT Book to school every day
• To have a daily reading time to read a book from school/home at home
• To ask questions of the adult sharing the book with you if you do not understand a word or ask for help if you need to read a word
• To discuss a book, you are reading at home
• If you are in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 or 2, your adult at home will write a comment in your PACT Book each day. If you are in Y3, 4, 5 or 6 you will write your own comment in your PACT notebook after reading each day