Reading At West Jesmond
Reading is at the heart of our West Jesmond Curriculum.
We are determined that every child will leave West Jesmond as a reader. Each West Jesmond pupil, regardless of background, will be supported and challenged in order to acquire both the decoding and the comprehension skills necessary to succeed in secondary school and beyond. We believe that being a fluent and confident reader is at the core of our Curriculum and is the key that unlocks future learning.
We want to make sure children will love literature! Pupils will be excited by, and immersed in, a wide variety of stories and different texts over the course of their 7 years at West Jesmond. They will have the opportunity to discuss and explore these texts, to form opinions about them and, most importantly, to lose themselves in the magic of stories. Therefore, alongside teaching every child the mechanics of how to read, we also aim to instil a profound enjoyment of reading in each child and to develop them into lifelong readers.
We are determined the West Jesmond children will leave us as confident communicators. Pupils will be able to communicate confidently and eloquently, using both written and spoken language, for a wide variety of audiences and purposes.
As well as the resources on this page please look on our Phonics and EYFS pages for lots of support with phonics.