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Our Curriculum : Reading

Intent

At East Hunsbury Primary School (EHPS), we are leading the evolution of reading for our community. We are dedicated to fostering a vibrant reading culture that empowers our students to become confident, fluent, and insightful readers. Our vision is to equip every child with the skills and passion for reading that will enrich their lives, both now and in the future.

Our Core Intentions:

  • Diverse Literary Exploration: We aim to expose our students to a rich tapestry of literature, encompassing graphic novels, classic texts, magazines, comics, poetry, and contemporary stories.
  • Deep Comprehension and Critical Engagement: We strive to develop students' ability to understand, evaluate, reflect, compare, and critique literature, enabling them to engage in meaningful discussions and form informed opinions.
  • Reading for Pleasure and Learning: We cultivate a genuine love for reading, encouraging students to choose reading as a source of enjoyment and knowledge acquisition.
  • Inclusive and Representative Literature: We ensure that every child sees themselves reflected in the books they read, providing both "windows" to diverse experiences and "mirrors" to their own, as inspired by Emily Style's "Curriculum as Window and Mirror."
  • Reading as a Foundation for Learning: We embed reading across our curriculum, recognizing its crucial role in strengthening core knowledge and developing students emotionally, culturally, socially, and spiritually.

Our Aims – every child a reader with agency

Our reading curriculum is designed to achieve the highest standards of literacy while nurturing a lifelong appreciation for literature. Our aims, built around NPAT’s Key Components, are to develop readers with agency, who:

  • Read easily, fluently and with good understanding
  • Choose to read widely and often for both pleasure and information
  • Understand what they read by drawing on a range of strategies including grammar, illustrative and knowledge of linguistic conventions
  • Increase their vocabulary
  • Have access to a variety of the finest literature which challenges and engages
  • Understand the role of reading and literature on their lives and wider society
  • Engage in discussion in order to learn, deepen their thinking and form opinions
  • Use their reading to influence their writing.

By placing reading at the heart of our school, we are committed to nurturing a community of lifelong learners who are empowered by the transformative power of literature.

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