We are thrilled to be a Success for All Partner School, a testament to our commitment to academic excellence and pupil success. Through this partnership, we have implemented effective strategies to improve early reading skills, ensuring that every child has a strong foundation for future achievements on our journey towards creating a community of lifelong learners! 

At St Wilfrid’s we are passionate about reading and actively promote a love of reading which inspires and excites all children. We believe that reading is a gateway to the world and understand the importance of improving reading standards on a child’s future academic achievement, wellbeing and success in life. 

Our English curriculum is holistically planned around quality texts and all children will develop an interest in words and their meanings and gain an appreciation of books from a variety of genres and authors. 

We teach children to read easily, fluently and with good understanding; to develop appropriate reading skills such as inference, skimming and scanning and summarising. 

Our children develop the habit of reading widely and often, for pleasure and information and this is timetabled daily. We aim for children to acquire a wide vocabulary from the books they read.  We have a well-stocked school library and children have a weekly time-tabled session there. Books are taken home to be shared with parents, to support them in their reading progress and maintain a love for reading.

Our classroom environments are designed with books clearly organised and readily available for children to select. We aim to have the best of children’s literature both classic, current, diverse, entertaining and challenging. We understand the importance of exposing our pupils to the very best stories and books. In our classrooms there is a culture of discussing, debating, enthusing and sharing what we are reading.