Phonics and Reading
Children sharing books on World Book Day.
We use the updated 2023 DFE Reading Guidance to ensure we are meeting the expectations in all aspects of Reading across the school. This can be found here: The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
We regularly invite authors into school. Billy Bob Buttons- the award winning author visited us and led a super workshop on story telling and creative writing. We were also able to purchase singed copies of his books.

We read everywhere and anywhere!
Reading prizes!
A love of reading makes a big difference in children’s achievement both now and into the future. At our school we work to encourage a love of reading in all children. Encouraging children to practise essential reading skills, developing their fluency, pace and resilience as well as increasing their understanding of language and enriching their vocabulary.
We aim to cultivate this love of reading through providing positive reading experiences such as celebrating World Book or author days, sharing reading across the school, opportunities to meet authors, reading competitions as well as providing quality texts to stimulate and enguage readers of all ages.
National Curriculum for Reading: National curriculum in England: English programmes of study - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our Reading skills tracker can be found here:
EYFS information for parents can be found here: Parents and families | National Literacy Trust
Author Stuart Reid came into school to teach us how to become writers. We used our ideas to create our own stories!

Parent workshops!