Developing pupils’ reading skills
Staff across the school promote a strong culture of reading. The school’s approach to developing early reading skills is highly effective and leaders share information regularly with parents so they can support their child at home. Pupils in the younger classes enjoy listening to and reading a broad range of texts and discuss them enthusiastically. In the older classes, most pupils read a range of fiction and non-fiction texts accurately and they use them to support their work. For example, pupils in Year 6 clearly explain the water cycle and understand technical terms such as precipitation, following their research using information books.