At Upton St Leonards C of E Primary school, after safeguarding, reading is our top priority. The Headteacher priorotises reading, staff foster a love of reading and reading and phonic CPD is prioritised with the aim of all staff being experts in early reading.
Subject Intent:
To increase pupils’ prospects by ensuring that all children are fluent, enthusiastic readers. We are determined to ensure that our pupils can speak, read and write fluently so that they can succeed in future life. |
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In the video below, our Teaching and Learning Head of School further explains the decision making behind our Reading Curriculum:
2. Reading Progression Document
3. Upton St Leonards Reading Policy
5. Scaffolding in Reading
7. Long Term Planning Documents
Reception Reading Curriculum (comprehension)
8. Knowledge Organisers
How we teach reading from Y1 - Y6.
Reading is taught in 30 minute daily whole class reading lessons using VIPERS question stems.
VIPERS stands for:
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explain
Retrieve
Sequence/Summary
Please click the link below for further information:
We pride ourselves on being a reading school. We engage our whole school community in reading for pleasure in a variety of ways;
Click here to read an example of our Reading Rocks Newsletter
Our library was designed with the addition of a beautiful mural painted by contemporary artist Stephanie Cole. It is a tranquil space for children to get lost in a book and is open every lunchtime as well as visited by classes during curriculum time. It was officially opened by Vashti Hardy (Blue Peter children’s book nominee 2020) on Friday 13th March 2020. Our wonderful Reading Ambassadors help to run their library. They will read and review every book that goes onto the shelf.
Useful websites to support our families with reading:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading-owl/reading
https://www.booksfortopics.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/making-time-for-books-at-home
Building foundations for a love of life, a love of learning and a love of one another