Reading

Our Reading leader is Miss J Alderson.

Our Literacy link Governor is Miss C Throssell

At Springvale we foster a love of reading from an early age.

Mrs S Hamilton leads our 'Reading Army' on Wednesday PM (1.30pm onwards) please ask us if you would like to sign up!

Please see our long term plan for Reading:

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them”

-Neil Gaiman

At Springvale Primary School, reading is at the heart of our curriculum. Our aim is for every child to become a confident, fluent, and enthusiastic reader, with a lifelong love of reading that extends across subjects and into everyday life.

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

– Margaret Fuller

We place high-quality texts at the core of learning, reflecting and celebrating the diverse cultures within the world. Reading underpins writing and supports understanding across all foundation subjects, enabling pupils to access, explore, and deepen knowledge throughout the curriculum. Our approach ensures that reading is not only a skill to master but also a source of curiosity, imagination, and enjoyment.

Fundraising through book sales helps us purchase more high-quality texts that are focused on current events or written by the pupils’ favourite authors to be placed in reading areas of each classroom for children to read for pleasure.

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

– Frank Serafini

Through an inspiring text-based curriculum, we aim to ensure that all our children develop a genuine love of language and literature. Strong links between oracy and reading ensures that pupils hear high level vocabulary read to them daily therefore pupils speak with broad vocabulary. Vocabulary plays a fundamental role in the reading process, both in terms of word recognition and language comprehension. Each reading session begins with introducing the children to the Teir 2 vocabulary that they will need to understand to comprehend the extract. This is taught to pupils in child friendly talk, with imagery used to support visual learners. The pupils are then encouraged to use this tier 2 vocabulary in their writing.

We are a reading school!

At Springvale, the love of reading is promoted and celebrated widely through exciting activities including World Book Day; book fairs; challenges such as ‘reading in an extreme place’ or decorating a paper plate to look like a book character. We also love reading to members of the community when the reading army visit on a Wednesday.

Displays around the school will often have books as their focal point and we have a reading shed (which is looked after by our Reading Ambassadors) on the main playground with a variety of reading genres for children to enjoy during their free time at playtimes and lunch.

“Reading is a passport to countless adventures.”

– Mary Pope Osborne