At St Gregory and St Patrick’s Infant School we love reading!
When Children join us as early as Pre Nursery we instil a love of reading. Children have story time and rhyme time several times a day. Children and parents are also able to take home with them story sacks, to continue this love of reading at home too. Sharing books is given a huge priority, with two book areas within the provision. Children regularly visit the mobile library van and select books they would like to read. We have also recently included a new book shelf in the Pre Nursery entrance with books that are pre loved that parents are encouraged to take home to share and keep.
When children reach Nursery they are introduced to daily phonics sessions, focusing on listening for and distinguishing between different sounds, we refer to this as "getting ready to read". In the Summer term our children who will move into Reception in the following September start with our Read Write Inc programme. The Nursery provides books in all areas of the environment to support each area of learning. Children also have a specific rhyme station where they can listen to and join in with nursery rhymes and songs. Talk for writing is introduced in Nursery too, focusing on common texts that children are familiar with, such as Jack and the Beanstalk. Each week children take home a story sack to share, after reading children are encouraged to complete some fun activities linked to the stories and draw a picture from the book. these story sacks are based around favourite known texts. mathematics based books and stories linked to Knowledge and Understanding of the World.
When children reach Reception each child is assessed and grouped by ability to start our Read Write Inc programme. All staff members within Reception and Key Stage 1 are allocated their own phonics group. In Reception children have daily 40 minute sessions, beginning with speed sounds for set 1 moving onto learning set 2 & 3 sounds alongside sharing ditty sentences and red story books. Children will then take home the book they have shared in their phonics group, a book that closely matches this and a bed time story for parents to read and enjoy with their child. Reading books are something we have spent time and money organising, so that children take home books that match their current phonetic ability but provides a certain amount of challenge too.
This continues into Year 1 and children soon move onto free readers when they have completed the Read Write Inc programme.
Children visit the local Library in Whitehaven in each year group and have weekly access to the school library. We enjoy celebrating World Book Day and dedicate this day to reading for pleasure.We are also eager to ensure that reading for pleasure happens daily, with specified book areas in each class and selected texts which make up our year group reading spines that we read over and over again so children gain confidence with this list of 15 books which runs from Pre Nursery to Year 2.
Each Wednesday we hold a whole school Story Assembly . Each week we have a different reading theme. Different Grown ups take the assemblies each week so children see a wide range of adults reading. Once a story has been shared we discuss the theme of the text and each class are given their special book bag including a new title based around the weekly theme to share back in classes. Classes are encouraged to share their books within the year band until they are returned the following week at the next Book Assembly.
To involve parent we post a read aloud version of one of these books to our Facebook page as our "Book of the Week."
Our aim is for each and every child in our care to love reading and leave us being a confident and enthusiastic reader! We ensure every staff member is well trained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjlPILhk7bQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HRX2ywbog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2b7nL1jrg
|
Parent video: Reading the Set 3 sounds and words with your child
Watch how Jo reads set 3 sounds and words with Eve at home. Spelling Set 3 words with your child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dftlTCNWlMQ Subscribe and turn on the notifications to receive Speed Sound lessons alerts every day! Follow us on Facebook facebook.com/miskin.education or visit our website www.ruthmiskin.com/en/ to find out how to ... |
|
Speed Sounds Sets 1, 2 and 3 for Foundation Stage and Year 1
The video demonstrates the correct pronunciation of speed sounds Sets 1, 2 and 3 and allows children to go through each set independently. The video takes children learning to read through the progression of sounds from initial alphabet sounds to digraphs (two letters that make one sound) and trigraphs (three letters that make one sound.)
Take a look at our Autumn Reading Assembly plan... Click here for more information about this online PDF viewer         
 
/ 3
    Click here for more information about this online PDF viewer
/
Click here for more information about this online PDF viewer
/
Loading Publication
 CURRICULUM MAP
Click here for more information about this online PDF viewer
/ 18
|
Take a look at our Autumn Reading Assembly plan...
CURRICULUM MAP
Our Schools Reading Spine
Each Year have selected 15 key texts that we feel will embed a love of reading within each year group. These texts will be shared again and again within class, so children grow to love each story and can begin to retell the stories independently. A big thank you to all of those parents who have kindly donated books to use in our class reading spines.
Take a look at our Schools Reading policy:
Reading Document for parents
This document has been designed to share with all of our parents, it is handed out at our first Reception Reading meeting.
Children who read regularly or are read to regularly have the opportunity to open the doors to so many different worlds! More importantly, reading will give your child the tools to become independent life-long learners.
At St Gregory and St Patrick's school we can achieve this together through:
- Read Write Inc, a program to help to your child read at school
- Encouraging children to develop a love of books by reading to them daily, at home and at school
- Giving children access to a wide range of books at school and at home
Celebrating World Book Day 2022
Visiting Whitehaven Library
We have tried hard to build a good link with our local library, in an attempt to encourage families to use the library on a regular basis. Children visit the library termly in Reception and then they visit again during Year 1 and Year 2. Take a loot at some photos of us enjoying the library.
Visit from the librarians
Nursery enjoyed a visit from the lovely ladies from the library. They read two stories for us 'Shark in the Dark' by Nick Sharratt and 'The Runaway Pea' by Kjartan Poskitt. The children listened carefully and joined in with all the actions and were able to remember much of what happened in the stories.
Our Annual Visit From the Library Van
We love reading at home
During Cumbria's "Share a book a Day" week, we set a competition on Facebook for children to share some unusual places they like to read at home...
Reading Support for Parents
Following on from the parent reading survey that was sent out last term, lots of parents were keen to attend a reading workshop after school. These workshops will focus on different aspects of reading from Nursery to Year 2.Each Year group held their meetings during Autumn term.
We hope that these meetings helped give parents confidence with sharing story books at home as well as supporting you with reading homework sent from school. Reading is such an essential tool in order to access all of the curriculum and we have made reading one of our key priorities to promote throughout school this year.
Below is the presentation used for our parent reading meeting in Reception.
Here are some great websites you can access at home to help support your child's reading/ phonics:
phonics Play:
Phttps://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
Cbeebies stories:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
Oxford Owl(free online books)
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/#
Phonics Games on ICT Games:
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.htm
Alphablocks (support reading)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD4-vPkeIqs
Click on the links to see how you can help your child with reading at home
Book Ideas for Home
Click on the documents below to see our book guides for each year groups: some fabulous books that would be great for you to share at home together..
Our School Library
In order to create a love of reading within our school we encourage all children to visit the library on a weekly basis! Each class, including Pre Nursery and Nursery, have a time tabled slot when they can access the library. Each class uses the library for different purposes depending on what they are aiming for in that sessions. Sometimes it may just be a visit for pleasure, choosing any book they wish to read. Sometimes they are trying to find a non-fiction book based on their own interest or a topic they are focusing on in class. Some visits are to listen to a story read by a grown up. Other visits include: writing a book review, writing a story plan, sharing a book with a buddy or parent helper reading time.
We want all of our children to have access to a wide range of different books, fiction books, non-fiction books, picture books and big books.
