Our aim is to create a diverse, inspiring and nurturing reading culture where all pupils develop confidence and a lifelong love of reading. Through rich and inclusive texts, pupils build knowledge, broaden their perspectives and develop curiosity, enabling them to access the wider curriculum and flourish beyond school.

• Quality first teaching: Highly impactful adaptive teaching which meets the diverse needs of all pupils, including disadvantaged learners and those with SEND in the classroom
• Assessment: To accurately identify pupils’ reading progress to inform timely teaching, targeted support and challenge
• Phonics: A strong and systematic provision
• Guided reading: Learning to read, reading to learn
• Faster Read
• Targeted intervention: Ensuring all pupils keep up

•  A strong reading culture: Including staff modelling reading and sharing enthusiasm for books
• Pupil agency: Pupil choice
• High-quality book talk linking directly to oracy
• Regular opportunities for independent reading
• Library visits and reading clubs
• High-quality whole-school reading events (e.g. World Book Day, National Storytelling Week) that build sustained engagement
• Opportunities to enjoy and perform poetry, developing confidence and appreciation of language
• Planned author visits and external speakers, embedded into the curriculum and followed up meaningfully
• Faster Read
• Guided Reading

•  Reading like an expert:
  • Pupils are regularly exposed to high-quality, subject-specific texts that develop and reinforce reading as a pathway to knowledge
  • A key focus upon subject specific vocabulary harnesses the mutually supportive relationship between oracy and literacy
• Guided reading: Teacher-led reading where a range of reading strategies are explicitly modelled
• Gradual release to independence: Teachers model expert reading, then support pupils to practise before applying strategies independently across subjects