At Worfield Endowed CE Primary School, the curriculum has been designed with reading at its core and it is woven across all curriculum areas. We share and promote a love of reading for all pupils as we recognise that learning to read raises children’s self-esteem and develops the wider characteristics of effective learning. We want our children to know that reading can make a difference throughout their whole lives.

Throughout our school environment, reading is celebrated, the importance of reading can be evidenced across the curriculum through numerous books to promote a positive reading mind-set. Well stocked and thought-out library areas in each class provide all pupils and staff to read and experience a range of text/media types and genres including newspapers, maps, children’s classics and poetry. Within each school day, pupils are encouraged to choose texts to read for pleasure, this fosters a love of reading through choice and variation. The children also enjoy the benefits of our school library where they have allocated time within the week to visit as a class. Our Remarkable Reader programme aimed to bring reading home to share with family members - each week a reader is chosen and allowed to bring home a suitcase with a story, hot chocolate to share and a teddy to spread our love of reading.

"After lunch we have ERIC time which means everyone reading in class. I love this time because I know I can keep reading the stories I love" - Year 5 child

"We go in the library to share stories or choose a book. It's really fun." - Year 2 child

"I love the suitcases that come home with a story and a hot chocolate!" - Year 1 child