The curriculum leader for Reading is Miss E.Lee

The most important function of our Reading curriculum is to develop the children’s spirituality and to nurture their faith development.  We want our children to develop the essential reading, writing, speaking and listening skills they require to experience the dignity of work when they reach adulthood.

Our curriculum is also designed, in line with NC14, to ensure that all pupils:

• - read easily, fluently and with good understanding
• - develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
• - acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic - conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
• - appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
• - write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
• - use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
• - are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate

We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme Pathways to Read. Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities 

for reading. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the reading activities provided.  

In KS2, the programme is delivered through whole class shared reading lessons. In Y2, children participate in one whole class lesson followed by bespoke grouped reading at least once a week as well as individual reading. For pupils still needing support with phonics from years 2-6, we provide an individual reading programme that has phonically decodable texts at the heart of it. In our whole class reading, there is a clear teaching focus with the opportunity to master key reading skills in each session. There are follow on reading tasks to enable pupils to evidence the skills they have mastered independently.

Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Read approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary. Children will practise reading aloud regularly with support from the teacher to build their reading fluency.