A strategic whole-school approach to reading.
Spotlight
Staff identified a need to refine their approach to teaching reading to improve pupils’ higher order reading skills and nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Teachers improved the quality of reading activities on offer to pupils every day to make them purposeful and enjoyable. Alongside this, pupil members of the reading ambassadors group visited all classrooms to consider provision for reading. Their feedback resulted in teachers making reading areas more welcoming and comfortable, and providing a more relevant and exciting range of reading material. Teachers report increased use of reading areas, a growth in pupils’ interest in reading for pleasure, and more enthusiasm for guided reading and class story time.