The 2014 curriculum places great emphasis on reading for enjoyment. Here at St Peter and St Paul, we put reading for pleasure at the centre of our curriculum. We follow the CLPE’s Power of Reading Scheme where every unit of study uses a challenging high quality children’s book as stimulus for imagination, debate and discussion.
https://www.clpe.org.uk/powerofreading
2026 is the Year of Reading
This year the Department for Education and The National Literacy Trust have launched a joint campaign to get everyone discovering or rediscovering a love of reading – and they are encouraging schools to do as much as they can to join in this. Here are some photos of our first event to celebrate The Year of Reading with our volunteer readings from our local business community organised by our reading volunteer partner, Coram Beanstalk. It was hugely rewarding for both the children and for the volunteers, who brought gifts of books and had a reading afternoon in our KS1 library and in the Secret Garden. We’d like to say a huge thank you to MacFarlanes for their visit.
The children always write with an audience in mind and have a chance through each unit of study to build up the necessary grammatical knowledge and vocabulary to produce meaningful extended writing. We teach grammar and spelling in context so the children understand the purpose of grammatical features of text. We explain the etymology of words from early on in their school career, so children can make subject links and make better attempts at understanding unknown words
Oracy is incredibly important for children’s life chances. We aim at St Peter and St Paul, to develop articulate and confident children. We have the highest standards for talk, with children encouraged to use ambitious language in every interaction. The children are taught narrative poetry by heart and get a chance to recite in our yearly poetry festival.
Above all we aim to make English learning exciting and give the children a sense of empowerment through their reading and writing. By making links with all other subjects, children are taught that their literacy skills enhance the way they communicate and understand the world.
