Intent

• All children at Leigh Primary School will learn to read with accuracy and fluency, regardless of their background, needs or abilities.
• Children will leave Key Stage 1 with the reading skills to enable them to access the Key stage 2 curriculum.

Implementation

• Use of the Read, Write, Inc (RWI) scheme to teach phonic skills throughout the school.
• Daily RWI in Reception, Year 1 and 2 until they complete the programme. Children are placed in groups based on a half termly assessment to ensure the teaching they receive is specific to them.
• 1 to 1 tutoring targeting unique gaps in the lowest, slowest progress children across school.
• Coaching for all reading teachers, as required, by the Reading Leader.
• Practice Sessions, delivered by the Reading Leader.
• Development Days with RWI consultant.
• Half termly assessments to assess children’s phonics and reading ability.
• Year 1 RWI PSC assessments (Nov, Feb, May) to inform planning of afternoon sessions.
• Story Time to embed pleasure for reading and a love of books across the whole school.

Impact

• All pupils including the weakest readers make sufficient progress to meet or exceed ARE.
• High quality phonics teaching delivered by all reading teachers.
• Increase in the % of children who achieve the Early Learning Goals for Comprehension, Word Reading and Writing.
• All pupils to reach the required standard in the PSC.