Reading
Phonics and Reading Schemes - Key Stage 1
Phonics: As a school we follow the Letters and Sounds phonics resource for Phases One to Four (Nursery and Reception children), followed by the School Improvement Liverpool Phonics Plans (Year 1 onwards).
Reading: For early reading, we use a variety of phonics based reading books, allowing our children to apply the skills learned in phonics lessons. We use 'Big Cat Phonics' books for guided reading which link to the Letters and Sounds Phonic phases.
Our more advanced readers have a variety of different schemes, including the phonics based Project X, to develop comprehension and sight words as well as providing breadth and depth.
For parts of our English curriculum and for use as Class novels we use the texts recommended from Pie Corbett's Reading Spine. These group quality fiction texts for different year groups. Our aim is that during the children's time with us, they will meet as many of the texts and authors as possible.
‘Imagine a primary school where, over seven or eight years, children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with a core of around 80 books. These ‘essential reads’ would be a store of classics, creating a living library inside a child’s mind…Schools that have a reading spine build a common bank of stories that bind the community together’ – Pie Corbett.
Anna Hibiscus author, Atinuke, came to our school!
Lovely stories being read to our children by the staff at The Very Group
When we met author Cressida Cowell
Sharing books with our friends
World Book Day
Liverpool Learning Partnership Reading Workshop
Coram Beanstalk and The Very Group Story time Session
New reading books linked to our phonics scheme
Click below to see the list of books for each year group.
Bedtime story boxes
Story time session at The Very Group
Liverpool Learning Partnership Reading Workshop
Year 5 are reading and writing about Varjak Paw. They were excited to meet author SF Said.
Year 6 meet author and illustrator Shoo Rayner
Year 5's author visit to meet Matt Oldfield
Year 5 trip to Central Library to meet author Scarlett Thomas
Chinese Storytelling
Easter Bedtime Stories - books and hot chocolate!
World Book Day 2019
Drop Everything And Read
