English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Reading Intent
Reading at English Martyrs Primary School
Intent
At English Martyrs Primary School, we believe that reading is an essential life skill and we are committed to enabling our learners to become lifelong readers.
At the heart of our strategy is our mission to foster a love of reading and we aim to provide children with a language-rich environment, high-quality texts, and inspiring learning opportunities which will help them to:
- Engage with a wide range of different text types
- Read accurately, fluently and with understanding
- Be able to read with expression, clarity and confidence
- Develop a good linguistic knowledge of vocabulary and grammar
- Gain a life-long enjoyment of reading and books
Implementation
We know that reading is the key to unlocking the rest of the curriculum and we are passionate about ensuring every child, no matter what their start, learns to read as quickly as possible.
Through the delivery of our reading curriculum, we strive to ensure a consistent and robust approach to the teaching and learning of early reading and phonics in Foundation Stage and KS1. We use the ReadWriteinc scheme to deliver daily sessions which are grouped by the phonic knowledge needs of the children and assessed every half term to ensure pupils are always challenged at the appropriate level. We use phonics screening data to monitor pupils and ensure that in KS2, we provide additional support for those that are still not yet confident in applying their phonics skills. In KS1, we have updated our reading book system to ensure that pupils are provided with books that closely match and support their phonics development.
We provide a text-rich environment in order to encourage a positive culture of reading throughout all classes and promote pupils’ enjoyment of reading. Through high-quality teaching and learning experiences, we will develop children’s skills and confidence. We celebrate reading through different events over the academic year including World Book Day, Story Nights, library club, drop everything and read sessions, author and poet visits and workshops, and parent story time. One of our four pillars that underpin our school values is the development of language and we encourage pupils to develop their vocabulary and their oracy skills in order to confidently discuss and debate core themes.
Impact
As we believe that reading is key to all learning, we seek to ensure the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond statutory assessments. Children have the opportunity to enter a wide and varied magical world that reading opens to them and, as they develop their own interest in books, we endeavour to foster a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles.
Our mission is that all pupils will be able to read with accuracy, speed, confidence, fluency and understanding ready to access the next stage of their reading journey whilst developing a life-long enjoyment of reading.
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Reading Intent
Reading at English Martyrs Primary School
Intent
At English Martyrs Primary School, we believe that reading is an essential life skill and we are committed to enabling our learners to become lifelong readers.
At the heart of our strategy is our mission to foster a love of reading and we aim to provide children with a language-rich environment, high-quality texts, and inspiring learning opportunities which will help them to:
- Engage with a wide range of different text types
- Read accurately, fluently and with understanding
- Be able to read with expression, clarity and confidence
- Develop a good linguistic knowledge of vocabulary and grammar
- Gain a life-long enjoyment of reading and books
Implementation
We know that reading is the key to unlocking the rest of the curriculum and we are passionate about ensuring every child, no matter what their start, learns to read as quickly as possible.
Through the delivery of our reading curriculum, we strive to ensure a consistent and robust approach to the teaching and learning of early reading and phonics in Foundation Stage and KS1. We use the ReadWriteinc scheme to deliver daily sessions which are grouped by the phonic knowledge needs of the children and assessed every half term to ensure pupils are always challenged at the appropriate level. We use phonics screening data to monitor pupils and ensure that in KS2, we provide additional support for those that are still not yet confident in applying their phonics skills. In KS1, we have updated our reading book system to ensure that pupils are provided with books that closely match and support their phonics development.
We provide a text-rich environment in order to encourage a positive culture of reading throughout all classes and promote pupils’ enjoyment of reading. Through high-quality teaching and learning experiences, we will develop children’s skills and confidence. We celebrate reading through different events over the academic year including World Book Day, Story Nights, library club, drop everything and read sessions, author and poet visits and workshops, and parent story time. One of our four pillars that underpin our school values is the development of language and we encourage pupils to develop their vocabulary and their oracy skills in order to confidently discuss and debate core themes.
Impact
As we believe that reading is key to all learning, we seek to ensure the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond statutory assessments. Children have the opportunity to enter a wide and varied magical world that reading opens to them and, as they develop their own interest in books, we endeavour to foster a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles.
Our mission is that all pupils will be able to read with accuracy, speed, confidence, fluency and understanding ready to access the next stage of their reading journey whilst developing a life-long enjoyment of reading.
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
Reading Intent
Reading at English Martyrs Primary School
Intent
At English Martyrs Primary School, we believe that reading is an essential life skill and we are committed to enabling our learners to become lifelong readers.
At the heart of our strategy is our mission to foster a love of reading and we aim to provide children with a language-rich environment, high-quality texts, and inspiring learning opportunities which will help them to:
- Engage with a wide range of different text types
- Read accurately, fluently and with understanding
- Be able to read with expression, clarity and confidence
- Develop a good linguistic knowledge of vocabulary and grammar
- Gain a life-long enjoyment of reading and books
Implementation
We know that reading is the key to unlocking the rest of the curriculum and we are passionate about ensuring every child, no matter what their start, learns to read as quickly as possible.
Through the delivery of our reading curriculum, we strive to ensure a consistent and robust approach to the teaching and learning of early reading and phonics in Foundation Stage and KS1. We use the ReadWriteinc scheme to deliver daily sessions which are grouped by the phonic knowledge needs of the children and assessed every half term to ensure pupils are always challenged at the appropriate level. We use phonics screening data to monitor pupils and ensure that in KS2, we provide additional support for those that are still not yet confident in applying their phonics skills. In KS1, we have updated our reading book system to ensure that pupils are provided with books that closely match and support their phonics development.
We provide a text-rich environment in order to encourage a positive culture of reading throughout all classes and promote pupils’ enjoyment of reading. Through high-quality teaching and learning experiences, we will develop children’s skills and confidence. We celebrate reading through different events over the academic year including World Book Day, Story Nights, library club, drop everything and read sessions, author and poet visits and workshops, and parent story time. One of our four pillars that underpin our school values is the development of language and we encourage pupils to develop their vocabulary and their oracy skills in order to confidently discuss and debate core themes.
Impact
As we believe that reading is key to all learning, we seek to ensure the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond statutory assessments. Children have the opportunity to enter a wide and varied magical world that reading opens to them and, as they develop their own interest in books, we endeavour to foster a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles.
Our mission is that all pupils will be able to read with accuracy, speed, confidence, fluency and understanding ready to access the next stage of their reading journey whilst developing a life-long enjoyment of reading.