Reading

84% of our children reached the expected standard in reading at the end of Key Stage 2 last year, with 32% achieving Greater Depth. This is due to a number of reasons:

• We teach discrete Reading Skills lessons 4 times per week, with a focus on at least one element of VIPERS (Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve, Summarise/Sequence).
• Phonics lessons are taught to those children who are not yet secure in their phonic knowledge.
• We read a class novel to our children every single day.
• We encourage our children to read as much at home as possible and reward lots of home reading.
• We have seven aims in supporting our children to become confident and able readers:
• We ensure that the teaching of reading is a strategic priority for our school.
• We foster a ‘love of reading’ at school and home.
• We teach phonics using a high quality support scheme.
• Our reading books are matched to the decoding skills of our children.
• The children who fall behind in reading are supported to catch up quickly.
• All staff have been trained in early reading and phonics.
• We recognise the huge benefits of reading: