Kingsacre Primary School

At Kingsacre Primary School we believe that speaking, listening, reading and writing are fundamental life skills, which enable children to communicate effectively in all areas and equips them for the challenges they will face in the wider world.

Kingsacre Primary School Intent for Reading 

At Kingsacre we are determined that

• Every pupil will learn to read, regardless of their background, needs or abilities.
• All pupils, including the weakest readers, make sufficient progress to meet or exceed age-related expectations.
• Children are able to develop vocabulary, language comprehension, and love of reading through stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction 
• Children are familiar with, and enjoy listening to a wide range of stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction.  
• Kingsacre’s phonics programme matches or exceeds the expectations of the national curriculum and the Early Learning Goals. 
• Kingsacre staff have clear expectations of pupils’ phonics progress term by term, from Reception to Year 2. 
• The sequence of reading books shows cumulative progression in phonics knowledge that is matched closely to the school’s phonics programme.
•  Teachers will give pupils sufficient practice in reading and re-reading books that match the grapheme-phoneme correspondences they know, both in school and at home. 
• Reading, including the teaching of systematic, synthetic phonics, is taught from the beginning of Reception. 
• Ongoing assessment of pupils’ phonics progress is sufficiently frequent and detailed to identify any pupil who is falling behind the programme’s pace. If they do fall behind, targeted support is given immediately. 
• Kingsacre staff have developed sufficient expertise in the teaching of phonics and reading.