Reading
'Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.'
Joseph Addison
'I love school because of all the books and our library' - Holly M.
Intent
At Princes Risborough Primary School, our intent is for all children to become confident, fluent readers, who love to read and explore all text types and genres. We aim to provide each child with the skills necessary to become independent readers, who can decode and comprehend texts at an appropriate level.
By exposing our children to a wide range of genres, which are rich in vocabulary and content, we provide children with the opportunity to analyse texts, develop their own opinions and identify preferable writing styles.
We endeavour to prepare children for their transition to secondary school by ensuring they can access a wide range of texts, thus supporting them to be successful, life-long learners. We aim to challenge each child by delivering an engaging, enriching curriculum which ignites a passion for reading, fosters a love of language and provides an opportunity for imagination to flourish.
Reading Curriculum Statement
Reading Overview
Reading Progression of Knowledge and Skills
Useful Documents
Useful Website Links
Summer Reading Challenge 2024
Welcome to this year’s Summer Reading Challenge!
Reception's challenge this year will be to read as many books as possible! The class will earn house points to participating in reading groups and the reading they do at home. Reception have a chart within their class and will use this to move their characters up. For everyone that makes it to the top will also be a part of the bonus prize!
This year the theme is space with 11 levels to complete!
Here are the levels:
Level 1: School reading book
Level 2: 2 different poems
Level 3: Library book
Level 4: A book with a colour in the title
Level 5: A book about animals
Level 6: Ebook/audio book
Level 7: Magazine
Level 8: Comic book
Level 9: A newspaper
Level 10: A biography
The final level is to write a short passage about what you enjoyed reading the most and why!
As part of your evidence.....
As part of evidence to completing a level, book reviews are available in the resource folder on the school website under the heading reading as well as in folders outside the library. We hope to use these and display them so please do keep them and hand them in to your teachers with your name and year group written on.
Evidence can also be done by it being in your reading record and signed by an adult. But we would really like to book reviews being used, so we can display them, and it may also influence others to read that book too.
Every week the librarians will be coming around to classes to see what levels everyone has completed. Your space character will then be moved up for every level completed.
With levels completed, there are also many prizes to be won. For having completed these levels you could win......
Level 3 : 5 house points for your house
Level 5: 10 house points for your team
Level 8: 20 house points for your team
Bonus prizes:
Everyone that completes all levels will be invited to take part in an extra library reward session. This will take place on an afternoon, where there will be games, time to read in the library, play with Lego, outside time, colouring, and ice-cream fun!
Bonus Reading Champion Prize:
The first person from KS1 and KS2 to complete all levels will receive a certificate, get to choose a book from the library and choose the next competition.
If you are not sure on what book to read, then make sure to come and have a look in the library or ask any of the librarians.
Have fun and Happy Reading! 📚
The Y6 Librarians
