Good afternoon everyone,

Just a little message to keep you updated on our Literacy plans for the year ahead.

We all appreciate the importance of reading and understand how it is often the key to future success, so as part of our School Development and Literacy Plans, we aim to focus specifically on how we can help our children progress through the different developmental stages of Reading: from the emergent and early readers in the Foundation Stage, to the progressive and transitional readers in Key Stage 1, to the confident independent readers in Key Stage 2.

In order for children to move successfully through these stages, the teaching of reading strategies and comprehension skills, through Guided Sessions in school and reinforcement and encouragement at home, are essential. To assist with the process, we are using Bloom’s Taxonomy, a hierarchical model that categorises learning objectives into varying levels of complexity, from basic knowledge and comprehension to advanced evaluation and creation.

We appreciate the pressures and demands on parents in the afternoon and evening, and understand how challenging it can be to get quality time to read with our children.

Please continue to complete your child’s reading homework with them, ensuring that they can read the text, and maybe more importantly, understand what they are reading, by discussing the story and characters, and by asking questions ranging from the literal to the more inferential and evaluative.

We’re looking forward to starting our reading sessions on Monday and would appreciate it if you would sign your child’s diary to confirm that they have completed their reading homework. Also, continuing to ensure that reading is part of your child’s bedtime routine will improve sleep quality, while also reducing stress and anxiety.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Mrs Vaughan ☺️