We are proud of our rich and diverse curriculum and we are equally proud of how we incorporate reading into this curriculum. Through our dedicated UNITs sessions each day, children are exposed to a wide variety of stimulating texts that develop their comprehension skills, vocabulary and inference and deduction skills. In the wider curriculum, our text choices are wide and varied. We utilise the Education Library Service to ensure there are a wide range of texts – factual and fictional – ready for the children to access. The children are encouraged to research widely into their topics, through their home learning grids and these research projects also encourage them to seek out knowledge and understanding. Reading is reading. Whether it is in a book or on a screen and we encourage our children to read a variety of texts in different forms. Each one of our classrooms has a reading area that aims to be inviting and comfortable. There is a steady supply of high-quality texts available and the children are encouraged to read widely.
We celebrate national events, such as World Book Day and we spend the day reading and immersing ourselves in books and other activities linked to our reading. We welcome parents into our school to support with reading, both on a 1:1 basis, within our classrooms, and on a bigger scale where they are asked to come into read alongside their children and enjoy reading together.
