Reading Curriculum intent, implementation and impact statement

 

Intent

Our curriculum has been designed to encourage children to become confident and enthusiastic about English. We have achieved this by listening to our pupils’  voice to ensure the curriculum is designed to be ambitious for all learners. Through our English Curriculum, we strive to teach the children how important their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills will be in the real world. We offer rich and vibrant opportunities for learners to be exposed to a variety of genres and authors. We intend for all learners to be able to read, write and spell to age –appropriate expectations and have provided sufficient time in the timetable to allow for this. We have a range of strategies in place for learners to develop a love for reading and to be able to read confidently and fluently. We want our children to have a positive attitude towards communication and to be able to express their emotions and their ideas independently. We aspire to equip our children with these skills now and the tools to develop those skills in the future.

Implementation

At St. Aidan’s Catholic Primary School we want all of our pupils to be capable readers, writers, spellers and speakers, who can transfer those English skills to other subjects in the curriculum and to take forward in the next stages of their educational development. Our English lessons will give all children the opportunity to hone these skills. Children are encouraged to read for pleasure and to read widely. We support this by providing opportunities for:

  • Daily opportunities for silent reading
  • Reading  Partners
  • Class story time
  • Reading individually to an adult in class
  • Junior Book Club
  • Reading Podcasts
  • Year 6 reading mentors
  • Library team
  • Celebrating world book day and poetry performance
  • Range of books to encourage a breadth of reading at greater depth.

Summer Reading Challenge

  • For EYFS – Yr2 daily phonics sessions take place following the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds programme.
  • Parents are given reading guidance and clear expectations about how to support their child with reading at home.

We help our children to develop writing skills so that they have the stamina and ability to write at the age expected standard. Our school uses a range of activities to excite and support this, including a range of class novels  film clips  and imagery, music, ICT and discussion. Children are regularly given the opportunity to write “just for fun”. We encourage children to take ownership of, and pride in, their work and to use a range of methods to develop this including shared and guided writing, self and peer assessment and discussion in talk partners.

We provide varied and exciting opportunities for writing for purpose and we encourage pupils to see themselves as authors and poets. These include World Book Day, various writing opportunities for publishing their work in the Weekly Newsletter.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-primary-curriculum

World Book Day Winners

 

So many amazing costumes!

The staff love dressing up too!

We love to share our reading with members of our family.

 

ADDRESS

ST AIDAN'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
PORTNALL ROAD,
COULSDON, SURREY,
CR5 3DE

CONTACT

TEL:  01737 556036
EMAIL: admin@st-aidans.croydon.sch.uk

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