Reading 

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‘The more that you read, the more things that you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’

- Dr Seuss

 

What do we want to achieve?

 

We want all of our students at QHS to develop a passion for reading!

 

The thought of reading can be very daunting for many of our pupils and we intend to change this through bringing fun and interest back to reading by making it enjoyable and relevant to the individual. At QHS we think carefully about our pupils' range of needs and learning abilities.

 

In our library and classrooms we have a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts.  These cover a wide range of interests and are labelled with their ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) score which indicates level of reading ability required to access the texts.

 

We have developed our library especially to be used as a reading space; this is really important for our SEMH pupils as it provides the opportunity for our pupils to develop their appropriateness in behaviour for learning skills. The library is used for class lessons and interventions with our Reading TA who administers our reading assessment 'Star Reader' termly to track progress in reading ages. .

 

Each pupil has access to online learning platforms targeting dyslexic readers; Nessy which is a great way to encourage pupils engagement in reading as it makes learning new vocabulary into a game, another online platform we use is ‘Accelerated Reader’ to baseline and develop reading skills targeting the gaps in learning.

 

All pupils have a daily reading session in their form and keep detailed reading journals of texts they have read and support they are receiving.

 

In 'The Stables' all pupils receive access to our SSP (Structured Synthetic Phonics) programme Read, Write, Inc. Daily phonics sessions are supported with texts to work at each pupils' level of challenge. Some pupils in KS3 recieve an adapted form of this promgramme called 'Fresh Start' which is a targeted intervention to develop phonics, reading and comprehension skills, to help pupils 'close the gap' in terms of their reading age.