Reading Action Plan 2016 -2017

Fagley School Improvement Plan 2016-2017 Reading Teach virtually every child to read, regardless of the social and economic circumstances of their neighbourhood, the ethnicity of their pupils, the language spoken at home and most special educational needs or disabilities. No.

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How to monitor

Key Area: Effectiveness of leadership and management 1

To improve the progress for disadvantaged pupils in reading across the curriculum.

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½ termly 1) To track the progress of disadvantaged

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pupils in reading and identify any pupils who will receive intervention support.

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2) To ensure that interventions meet the needs for all the disadvantaged pupils who

 Reading assessment data  Pupil progress meetings with teachers.  Pupil interviews.  Progress of talking partner’s intervention.

are not making expected progress. 3) To perform pupil interviews. 4) To discuss progress of disadvantaged children at pupil progress meetings. 5) To provide talking partner’s intervention (year4) 2

Leaders to ensure that the key skills in reading are being taught to enable pupils to access different areas of the curriculum.

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1) To use the Bradford reading grid assessment sheets to ensure national

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curriculum skills in reading are being taught. 2) To monitor the use of the reading

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question fans. 3) To scrutinise pupils reading journals.

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 Reading assessment grids collected.  Monitor planning.  Reading scrutiny.

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 Data collection  Reading assessments results

4) To monitor the teaching of phonics. 3

Leaders to consider the impact of the teaching of reading.

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1) To monitor reading assessment data 2) To use reading assessments

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- rising stars ½ termly - testbase papers (end of year)

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- past papers (2016 for Y2 and Y6) 3) To audit the reading provision in each year group.

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Leaders to consider the extent to which the school intervenes to provide support for improving pupils’ literacy, especially for pupils at risk of underachieving. Leaders to listen to children reading. To focus on low-attaining pupils and discuss their reading with them.

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1) To monitor reading interventions across

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 Intervention records

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the school 2) To use data to identify children at risk

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 Collecting data for

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of falling behind. 3) To provide reading clubs for children who

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are falling behind. 1) Staff meeting Wednesday 9th November.

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Teachers to listen to children read and complete a reading interview.

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2) To listen to readers and complete ofsted reading questionnaire

reading interventions

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> Listen to children read. > Complete pupil questionnaires.

3) Pupil interviews with low-attaining pupils. Class 6

The school council to promote reading.

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1) To have a book shop for parents and

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pupils to purchase books led by the school council.

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2) School council to conduct reading learning walks and make suggestions for

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improvements (pupil voice)

Term 1 Updates 1.1) 1.2) 2

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> Complete learning walk with the school council

Fagley School Improvement Plan 2016-2017 Reading 1.3) Carried out by SG Autumn 1 – fed back to SLT in a summary (email attachment). 1.4) 1.5) KB to set aside time in Miss Worthington’s timetable for her to begin this. 2.1) 2.2) Evidenced during Reading Buddies. 2.3) Carried out by VR Autumn 2 2.4) Carried out by CM and KB, Autumn 2. 3.1) 3.2) 3.3) 4.1) 4.2) 4.3) 5.1) 5.2) 5.3) 6.1) Available at Parents Consultation, Autumn 1. 6.2) Carried out with SG – Autumn 1. Fed back to SLT. Key area: Quality of teaching, learning and assessment 1

To ensure that teachers embed reading well across the curriculum equipping all pupils with the necessary skills to make progress.

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1) Complete a whole school reading plan. –

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> Whole school reading plan

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curriculum reading overview. 2) Class readers.

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> Reading learning walk. > Curriculum overviews.

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3) Identify additional reading opportunities across the curriculum.

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4) To broaden vocabulary across the school using age appropriate weekly vocabulary lists. 3

> Words of the week

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Teachers to plan and deliver high quality read lessons.

To develop a love of reading with school.

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1) Monitor guided reading planning.

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2) Observe guided reading sessions. 3) Scrutinise guided reading journals and

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home reading records.

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1) To improve reading corners to ensure that they display books to promote reading. 2) To have a class reader – daily reading aloud time using high quality texts.

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> Collect planning > Lesson observations > Reading journal scrutiny.

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> Learning walk – reading corners > Pupil interviews > Audit of the library

3) Reading incentives to encourage reading. 4) To continue to develop the school library. 5) Classes to recite poetry during assembly. 6) Forest school children to read a story during their session (woodland stories) Term 1 Updates 1.1) Completed Autumn 2 1.2) 1.3) Teachers questioned regarding when and how reading takes place. All teachers read aloud to class. Advent Books allowed greater opportunity for this – end of Autumn 2. 1.4) In place in corridor and in classrooms (learning walks) 2.1) 2.2) 2.3) Carried out by VR – Autumn 2. 4

Fagley School Improvement Plan 2016-2017 Reading 3.1) Fed back to staff after VR/SG learning walk – monitored during further learning walk 8.12.16 and fed back to staff re progress. 3.2) Class readers in place. Do all classes have the opportunity for this daily? Question staff for Spring progress onwards to ensure consistency. 3.3) Implement book voucher for 100% attendance weekly draw – from Spring 1? 3.4) SL/KB have begun this process – ongoing. 3.5) 3.6) Begun in Autumn term – ongoing. Key area: Personal development, behaviour and welfare 1

To develop a love for reading across the school. Promoting reading for pleasure.

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1) To set up ‘reading buddies’ across the

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school (Y6 children to reading with Y3 Y5Y2 Y4-Y1) creating a community of readers.

 Pupil feedback from

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Children to use bloom’s taxonomy reading fans.

 Drama workshops

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2) All children to visit the city library during house morning.

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Pupil interviews reading buddies

3) Arrange for authors / illustrators to visit school. 4) Continue to develop the school library 5) Roald Dahl day 6) World book day 7) To use drama and role play to help children to understand and access texts. 8) To provide an outdoor library for children to access books within the outdoor provision areas.

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To engage with parents to promote the importance of

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9) Book clubs in years 5 and 6 1) Parents to read with children (10 min per

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 Parent reading workshops.

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Fagley School Improvement Plan 2016-2017 Reading reading at home.

2) To have parent reading workshops.

 Assemblies including

3) Monitor home reading journals. 4) To produce a reading newsletter to

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promote the importance of reading at home Term 1 Updates 1.1) In place – Autumn 2 1.2) Will all houses achieve this by July 2017? 1.3) 1.4) SL/KB have begun this process – ongoing. 1.5) Celebrated November 2016 1.6) Spring term 1.7) 1.8) 1.9) 2.1) Communicated as an expectation. Staff meeting 14.12.16 to discuss further strategies to engage parents. Implement actions from this meeting to help meet this objective. 2.2) 2.3) Carried out VR Autumn 2 2.4) Discuss in line with agreed actions from 14.12.16 staff meeting. Key area: Outcomes for pupils’ achievement 1)

To ensure that in each year group

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1) To have ½ termly reading assessments.

and across the curriculum, pupils make substantial and sustained

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2) To collect reading data from each year group.

progress in reading.

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3) To analysis reading data and create development points for staff.

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3) Pupil progress meetings 6

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Data collection

 Reading progress trackers.

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4) To implement and monitor reading interventions. 4) High attainers / accelerated progress

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Pupils to read widely and often

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across subjects to a high standard, with fluency and

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comprehension appropriate to their age.

readers are rewarded. 1) To monitor home reading journals

Termly

 Learning walk

2) Ensure reading corners have a range of materials to read and they are inviting for

 Pupil interviews

children. 3) Audit curriculum texts are available in

 Curriculum overview

 Audit reading corners

classrooms. 4) Check the depth and breadth within the curriculum. 5) To recruit and train volunteers for 1:1 3)

To ensure that year 1 pupils achieve highly in the national phonics check.

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reading. 1) Collect phonic trackers 2) Meet with Y1 teaching staff 3) Daily teaching of phonics in KS1. (Clare Murray to monitor)

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Term 1 updates. 1.1) Ongoing (Rising Stars) 1.2) Ongoing 1.3) – 1.4) – 1.5) – 1.6) – 2.1) Carried out by VR Autumn 2 7

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 Meet with phonics leader.

Fagley School Improvement Plan 2016-2017 Reading 2.2) Learning walks Autumn 1 and 8.12.16 have enabled areas to improve. 2.3) Spring 1. 2.4) During Guided Reading book / reading journal scrutiny – fed back to staff. Autumn 2. 2.5) Discussed with some parents at Consultation. Further action needed, Spring 1. 3.1) CM actioned, Autumn 1 and 2 3.2) 3.3)

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