Reading
Reading Intent
Reading is at the heart of our curriculum, a crucial part of our daily experience and is essential for developing educational and social progress. It is our vision to ensure every child achieves their full potential to become confident, enthusiastic readers and understanding members of society. As inspiring role models of literature, it is our intention to nurture a love of reading, to immerse children in high quality texts, and to develop a thirst for discovery. We strive to cultivate a community with strong abilities in both the spoken and written word, therefore the acquisition of language and vocabulary is of the utmost importance and underpins our regular meaningful discussions and explicit teaching of reading skills. Phonics: we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident readers and writers by learning key phonetic knowledge and applying these to the segmenting and blending of words. Through small incremental steps we build phonetic knowledge systematically using a validated synthetic phonics programme. All children in Reception and Year 1 and Year 2 have daily, dedicated phonics lessons which are delivered through a consistent, effective teaching structure. All resources used to support the phonics learning journey are decodable and closely matched to the children’s needs, differentiated where required.
Each child receives quality reading lessons each week to develop specific reading skills, including fluency and confidence when reading aloud. This is delivered through our ‘Book Talk’, which links to Jane Considine's Reading Rainbow. Our sessions follow a two week process, where our children are exposed to a wide range of high-quality texts that are discussed and studied in depth.
Phonics Intent
We are passionate about ensuring all children become confident readers and writers by learning key phonetic knowledge and applying these to the segmenting and blending of words. Through small incremental steps we build phonetic knowledge systematically using a validated synthetic phonics programme. All children in Reception and Year 1 and Year 2 have daily, dedicated phonics lessons which are delivered through a consistent, effective teaching structure. All resources used to support the phonics learning journey are decodable and closely matched to the children’s needs, differentiated where required.
We use the Monster Phonics scheme.