Learning to Shape Our Future
We want to develop and nurture children’s love of reading, so they become lifelong readers, and use this love to read for both study and pleasure. The firm foundations of reading are created through children’s phonic knowledge and skills.
We further build on these through developing fluency and accuracy when reading for different purposes and having a rich and extensive knowledge of vocabulary through reading a broad range of challenging, high quality texts. We aim for our children to flourish, unlocking lifelong learning in the classroom and wider world by being confident, resilient, reciprocal readers.
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How We Learn
Our children will learn in a literacy-rich environment, have access to high quality texts and be exposed to extensive vocabulary and experience inspiring, effective learning. They will be fascinated and curious enough to ask questions about the world around them, developing empathy by learning about key concepts and by exploring texts from a diverse range of books. Our children learn resilience in reading by accessing challenging books, that are appropriate to their ability and texts that inspire reading for pleasure.
In Reception and Year 1, we follow the phonic scheme, Little Wandle to teach blending and use guided reading for the children to apply their phonic skills.
We use whole class reading from Years 2-6 as our main strategy to teach reading skills.
Using our progression, the children are exposed to a range of high-quality texts. Each session is sequenced using an introduction and recap, vocabulary check, modelled reading, and comprehension focus where skills taught are being applied.
Herts for Learning Reading Fluency is used to assess and monitor progress for children, alongside NFER for assessment. Guided reading is used as an intervention to support readers where needed.
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