Reading Programme

Our aim is for all our students to become confident readers who can read with accuracy, speed and fluency.

Our students have a range of reading abilities. Some students require intensive support with their phonological awareness and some are confident readers who are reading at age related competencies. Our reading strategy therefore has to be adaptive so that all our students are making progress with their reading.

We use Nessy (a research based reading programme which follows Science of Reading principles) to support our early readers and those who require a tailored phonics programme. Nessy is proving to be an essential element of our reading programme and our students’ progress with reading is evidence that this programme really works with supporting our students with their reading acquistion and confidence.

We engage with ERIC (Everyone Reading In Class) every afternoon – we aim for all members of the community to be reading during this time.

As a new school, we have invested heavily in our reading books. We have books which are aligned to our reading programme, books which support our theme of the term as well as having books to support our reading for pleasure drive.