As a School, we believe that use of high quality text in our English lessons best support this development. We also believe that the first educators of our pupils are their parents.
As a school, we encourage our parents to listen to their children read regularly, to read to their children regularly, to discuss reading books with their children and to ask their children questions whilst they are reading. Research shows that a language rich environment support pupils’ development and achievement. As a result, we provide parents with a examples of the types of questions which will develop their reading skills and understanding:
Additionally, as a school, we believe that high quality texts are important and to enable our parents to support their child/ren in developing key reading skills and to ensure that our intent is further embedded, we provide parents with reading book lists which are design to support our core purpose which is:
To ensure all our pupils leave us as literate individuals, who have reached the specific end point identified in the National Curriculum as required for pupils transferring to Secondary Education.
To ensure all our pupils enjoy and love reading
To strive to develop in all our pupils a life-long passion for reading
To ensure all our pupils have the knowledge, skills and fluency to enabling them to draw upon the printed word throughout their lives
These are some of the texts we base our English teaching around. Please note that we do not teach exactly the same texts every year.
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Reception
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A Great Big Cuddle, poems for very young Bleu Penguin Whatever Next! Way Back Home Shark in the Park I Really Want to SHOUT! Have You Filled a Bucket yet? Our Class is a Family The Colour Monster Ish Tad Stanley's Stick |
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Year 1
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A First Book of Nature Man on the Moon Ruby's Worry Professor Astrocat Human Body Funnybones Toys in Space Emma and The Eggbox Dragon The Robot and the Bluebird Out and About |
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Year 2
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How to Catch a Star The Storm Whale The Snail and The Whale The Lonely Beast How to Find Gold Where the Wild Things are Vlad & the Great Fire of London One Day on our Blue Planet The Worst Witch Fantastic Mr Fox |
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Year 3
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Pebble in my Pocket The Tin Forest The Stone Age Boy The Ice Palace Oliver and the Seawigs Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx Mathilda The Beast of Buckingham Palace |
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Year 4
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The Adventures of Odysseus The Cosmic Disco The Iron Man Varjak Paw The Ice Monster The Bolds go Wild |
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Year 5
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Stormbreaker Anglo-Saxon Boy Treason Cosmic: One Giant Leap for Boy-Kind Harry Potter - The Philosopher's Stone Wonder Here We Are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
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Year 6
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Goodnight Mr Tom In Flanders Fields What Are We Fighting For? Holocaust Remembrance First They Came Once Holes Macbeth The Chocolate Tree |