St Paul's C.E Primary School
Learning to read is one of the most important things children will learn whilst at St Paul’s. Every child must become a confident and competent reader if they are to access all the opportunities our curriculum offers.
In EYFS, children begin their love of reading through exploring books, developing book handling skills and actively participating in stories, rhymes and poems. These experiences provide children with an opportunity to encounter rich and diverse vocabulary along with encouraging language play.
In Nursery, children also begin to develop their knowledge of phonemes by taking part in foundations for phonics sessions from the Little Wandle Scheme.
In Reception and Year 1, all children take part in daily phonics lessons following the Little Wandle scheme, which ensures children learn the phonological code in a systematic approach. In addition, children work in reading practise groups to develop their decoding, prosody and comprehension skills using books that are closely matched to their phonetic abilities. Alongside these sessions, children are inspired through a range of stories, non-fiction texts and poems that develop their love of reading and understanding of wider curriculum areas. Children continue to take part in Reading Practise sessions using increasingly challenging texts.
From Year 3 upwards, children take part in whole-class reading sessions using a quality text to develop their reading fluency and comprehension skills. For some children, daily phonics sessions are also in place using the Little Wandle scheme. Comprehension skills are taught based on the end of year expectations and the reading content domains.
Children across school also can take books home to continue their reading journey. These books are carefully chosen to engage and inspire whilst continuing to be matched to children’s abilities.
All classrooms at St Paul’s boast attractive reading areas that include various types of books, from graphic books to chapter books, non-fiction to comics, including dyslexia friendly books. Children are encouraged and time is given for them to access the reading areas throughout the school day.
Little Wandle have recently included specific resources to support children with SEND. St. Paul's is currently exploring these resources to increase the acessibility of learning to read through phonics to ensure our reading curriuclum is inclusive.
Further additional reading programmes are used where children's accessibility is limited using Little Wandle and who may require accessing an alternative approach such as 'Spelling Made easy' and also 'Beat Dyslexia'
Children with SEND are assessed individually to identify the approach that is best suited to their needs in order to give them the best opportunity to read alongside their peers and make rapid progress.
Learning to Read with Little Wandle
| Name | Format | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Files | |||
| Phase 2 Learning Part 1.pdf | |||
| Phase 2 Learning Part 2.pdf | |||
| Phase 3 and 4 Learning.pdf | |||
| Phase 5 Learning.pdf | |||
| Phase 2 Tricky Words.pdf | |||
| Phase 3 Tricky Words.pdf | |||
| Phase 4 Tricky Words.pdf | |||
| Phase 5 Tricky Words.pdf |
For more information, click here to access the Little Wandle
website for parents.
Our Reading Provision at St Paul's
The curriculum document here is accurate as of September 2024. We continually review the fine detail of the curriculum content to ensure it meets the needs of our pupils. As a result, these ongoing small changes may not be reflected in the document below.
Library Visits
Parents are taking their children to the library following some of our classes taking the children there during the school day.
This is a message sent by one of our parents whose child in 'The Vine' has suddenly become motivated to read at home and have books read to him too.
"My son and I popped into Royton and he wanted to take me to the library. We sat on a sofa and read some books and chose 5 to bring home. He was really pleased to have his own library card and we read some books at bedtime. Thank you formotivating my child to read."
Parent/Carer of a child in Daisy class September 24
The visits to the library in school motivated him to want to visit again when he got home. This is evidence of how St Paul's really does 'inspire' our children and motivate them.
Parent reading testimonials
"We wanted to say just how well Aiden is doing with reading. He is really interested in words and spelling them. He read several sentences from his story tonight as well as his school book very easily. Such a huge improvement. Thank you for your efforts, kindness and patience. It's really showing!"
Parent/Carer of a child in Daisy class (The Vine). September 24
"I cannot believe it! Harry's just read the Sam book to me and Andy! First time I've ever heard him read to us. Thank you so much for whatever you are doing with him."
Parent of a child in the Vine who has moved from Bluebell to Daisy class entering the 'engagement' model of learning in our Additional Resourced Provision Oct 24
