Flourishing together within the love of God.

As an inclusive and caring church school, we aim to provide an excellent education and develop a lifelong love of learning. We see all members of our school family as valued and valuable in the eyes of God, and we support and challenge everyone to achieve their full potential.

 “I come to bring life in all its fullness”

(John 10:10)

 

 

READING

Intent

The intent of our Reading curriculum is that every child will flourish within their reading. This will allow them to become capable and confident, developing a love of books, therefore becoming life-long readers. We strive to ensure that our children receive a well-rounded experience, when reading, allowing them to flourish in school and beyond. It is our intention to immerse pupils in the wonders of quality texts to instil a love for reading, a passion for discovery and a confidence to explore their imagination through our Book-Led curriculum

 

Implementation

Our reading curriculum is progressive and begins in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with our phonics teaching, we follow the Little Wandle Phonics programme. Children in these classes, take part in phonics lessons on a daily basis and reading sessions three times a week. From Year 2 children take part in guided reading sessions. Children in Key Stage 1 and Early Years take the Little Wandle Phonics books home once a week to celebrate their reading successes with their parents, as well as a choice of a library book to share with a grown-up at home.

Our reading curriculum continues in Key Stage 2, children participate in guided reading, using the reading scheme Reading Rocketeers and have access to appropriate texts to take home from our library.  We also look for opportunities for shared reading within our whole curriculum.

We have an allocated story time at the end of each day where children are read aloud to by the class teacher, using an appropriate age related text. During this time, the children are encouraged to enjoy listening to the text.

 

To further enhance our reading curriculum we:

  • Have reading buddies, allowing our older children to share books with younger children- sharing a love of reading, our younger children hear role models reading to them, our older children have the opportunity to practise their fluency skills.
  • Have time allocated for each class to access our school library during the school week.
  • Where possible, allow children to access the library area at lunchtime to encourage a love of reading.
  • Have Mystery Readers, members of the wider school community volunteer to come into school to read to our children.
  • Ask parents to come and hear our children read on a regular basis.
  • Promote reading through World Book Day and other activities such as book hunts around Fiskerton.
  • Have a ‘Book Fairy’ (a different member of staff each term) who delivers several copies of an age appropriate text to each class, giving the children the opportunity to read the same text and encourage ‘book talk’. The staff working in that class are also expected to read the text. This also encourages the staff to develop their knowledge of children’s literature.
  • Talk to the children about their favourite authors/ interests and ask them to choose books to add to our library.
  • Have a cosy, inviting library area where our children want to come and read.
  • Allow our children to make their own book recommendations to each other through the use of padlets and reading journals.
  • Have a learning environment that promotes reading.
  • Give our children as many opportunities to read as possible.

Impact

Through the teaching of systematic phonics, our aim is for children to become fluent readers by the end of Key Stage One. This way, children can focus on developing their fluency and comprehension as they move through the school. Attainment in reading is measured using the statutory assessments at the end of Key Stage One and Two. These results are measured against the reading attainment of children nationally. Attainment in phonics is measured by the Phonics Screening Test at the end of Year 1.

However, we firmly believe that reading is the key to all learning and so the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond the results of the statutory assessments. We give all children the opportunity to enter the magical worlds that books open up to them. We promote reading for pleasure as part of our reading curriculum. Children are encouraged to develop their own love of genres and authors and to review their books objectively. This enhances a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles.