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Reading at home with your child is the most powerful thing a parent can do to support them at school.
By reading to and with you child you will;
increase vocabulary from reading more difficult books
improve comprehension from being able to ask questions
make your child more likely to enjoy literature later in life, because of the modelling from parents
be spending precious time with your child
At Cottage Grove Primary School we aim for all our pupils to become fluent, confident readers who want to read for pleasure and through the skill of reading become independent life-long learners.
In order to achieve this we teach early reading through Read Write Inc Phonics (RWI) developed by Ruth Miskin. RWI provides a structured, systematic approach to teaching phonics from Nursery into Reception and KS1, where all pupils learn to become fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers. All pupils are assessed regularly and work with other pupils at the same level. In Nursery and Reception, they are introduced to initial sounds before learning how to blend these sounds to read words using Fred talk and sound blending. They then begin to read simple ditties and simple sentences before moving onto more complex sounds and books appropriate to their reading level as they move into Year 1 and 2.
Once children are able to successfully read simple words and ditties pupils will bring home phonetically decodable books at an appropriate level to read to you and further practise their phonics.
For KS2, we follow Destination Reader. Destination Reader is a reading program used in primary schools to develop students’ reading comprehension skills through structured, daily lessons. It combines whole-class reading, partner discussion, and strategies like predicting, questioning, and summarising to foster deeper understanding and a love of reading.
School Values
Our school values run through our curriculum. To see how they fit in to each subject, click the button below.
For our Religious Education learning, we follow the Kapow curriculum.
NB - Parents have the right to withdraw their child from RE lessons, however this should be discussed with the class teacher and possibly the headteacher first.
For our Personal, Social and Health Education (which also covers Relationship and Sex Education), we follow the PSHE Association.
NB - Parents have the right to withdraw their child from RE lessons, however this should be discussed with the class teacher and possibly the headteacher first.
If you would like to find out more about the curriculum and it's content, please contact our admin team via email - admin@cottagegrove.co.uk