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Reading

‘Reading takes centre stage in the curriculum. Pupils who spoke with the lead inspector talked enthusiastically about their favourite authors and styles of writing. Pupils learn how to read fluently and with understanding.’ Ofsted 2022

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At Primrose Hill, we believe that the ability to read and interpret written language is fundamental to pupils’ development to enable them to become independent learning during their time at school and beyond. Reading is the key to success and has a direct effect upon progress in all areas of the curriculum.

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Aims

We aim for all children, by the end of Year 6 to:

  • Become fluent, confident and independent readers
  • Read for pleasure and enjoyment as well as information
  • Read and respond to a wide range of different types of literature
  • Understand the layout and how to use different text types
  • Understand and apply their knowledge of phonics and spelling patterns and use this to decode words with accuracy
  • Build their bank of sight words to enable fluent reading
  • Develop a rich and varied vocabulary
  • Understand, respond and appreciate literature drawn from a range of cultures and literary heritage
  • Have enough experience with books to be able to draw comparisons, find similarities, differences and discuss enjoyment

Teaching the skills of Reading

At Primrose Hill, along with listening to readers and assessing their reading fluency, we will also teach different skills to enable children to understand, respond and analyse different texts.
By the end of Year 6, the following skills will be taught in whole class reading lessons through different text types involving both fiction and non fiction (see progression map for further breakdown):

  • Retrieval
  • Inference
  • Summarising
  • Predicting
  • Language
  • Comparisons

Reading for Pleasure

At Primrose Hill, we encourage and prioritise reading for pleasure. We want to ensure that all our pupils have had the opportunity to read, enjoy and appreciate a wide variety of literature. To address this, we have invested heavily in an engaging reading scheme that will run throughout school all the way up to Year 6. Children will still have the opportunity to choose their own books to read alongside this for their own pleasure.


Each class also will have the opportunity to read a variety of books throughout the year as a class. These books can be found on our overview. This will broaden our pupils reading diet, allowing them to access books that they might not necessarily choose themselves. We ensure that children meet a diverse range of characters and explore various themes throughout these books whilst appreciating some classic literature.
Each class will visit the local library at least once per year.

Home Reading

At the start of the year, children are assessed on their reading fluency ability and allocated a book from the relevant book band that they can access. Home reading scheme consist of Project X and other books. We ensure that we have a mix of fiction and non fiction books in order to give pupils enough exposure to all text types.
Home reading books are changed on a weekly basis with the expectation that pupils read a minimum of at least 4 times per week. This is encouraged through ClassDojo and checked through the reading records.
Targeted pupils may receive extra Reading tuition or may read with an adult more frequently to ensure they make accelerated progress. Pupils are tracked to ensure most of the class are reading at the age expected standard of their year group.
(See home reading poster and video for more information)


Other Information
School has opened its own £1 bookshop. This will enable parents and children to buy discounted, quality books to read at home. The money raised through this will then be used to further enhance the reading provision in school.

The Autumn term saw the first set of Reading Catch Up tuitions take place. 24 members of our own staff led these sessions and 104 pupils were able to benefit from this. Further Reading catch up sessions will be planned later this year.
World Book Day is celebrated every year with lots of competitions and quizzes taking place to encourage ‘talk about books.’

 

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Reading Lessons

INTERACTIVE BOOK - Please Click HERE to see how we support and develop reading at Primrose Hill

Story time- Each class will read a whole class novel for 10 minutes at the end of each day. The teacher will model fluent reading or an audio book will be followed. The child will follow the story with their own copy of the novel. Reading discussions will take place around the book being read, allowing pupils to engage with the text and understand it.

Whole class reading lessons- Children will be taught skills linked to reading (see progression map). Some skills will be repeated to ensure that pupils can embed and master those skills. (New skills being taught that half term are highlighted in yellow on the map). A new skill will be introduced weekly and throughout the week, children will have the opportunity to practice this skill through the reading of short and long texts. Each half term, there will be a ‘Read and Discuss’ Unit which will allow pupils to explore class novels and carefully chosen texts further by implementing a variety of skills.

Project X Reading Scheme- Children will be assessed and allocated a book from the relevant book band. Books will be changed on a weekly basis, with the expectation that pupils read at a minimum of 4 times in a week at home with an adult. This will be encouraged through class dojo. Reading records will be checked weekly.

In school, there will be daily and frequent readers on a 1:1 basis with the teacher or support assistant. Targeted pupils will read more often, whilst confident readers may read to an adult once a week.

Daily phonics lessons in EYFS and KS1. Targeted interventions for the pupils that need further phonics in KS2.

KS2 will teach spellings for e.g root words, suffix, prefix.

Reading of texts will be linked to curriculum work where possible.

At least one library visit or librarian visit per year (not taking place in the year 2020-21 due to COVID restrictions).

 

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ARCHIVE - Helping our children catch up, keep up and get ahead following on from the COVID-19 pandemic

Using a combination of pupil premium, catch up premium and funding through the NTP, our school has created a series of sessions aimed at identified pupils in order for them to catch up on any lost ground due to national school closures in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the pandemic. We also recognise that every child has been affected by these closures in some way or another. In response to this, after heavy consultation with parents, it was agreed to temporarily extend our school day by15 minutes for the 2010-21 academic year in order to focus on the areas of number (inc times tables) and reading. By extending the school day in this way, each child will, by the end of this academic year, have received an extra 40 hours of direct teaching & learning time.

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