One year on, Secondary English Lead at Reach Academy Hanworth Park, Lily Staff has been talking about the success of the Reading Programme. The blog featured on the Children’s Commissioner website. Here’s an excerpt and scroll below to click through on the website the article.
It has been almost a year since we welcomed our founding cohort of Year 7 pupils to Reach Academy Hanworth Park in Feltham. With pupils from 24 different primary schools, we knew that literacy levels would be varied and in our Year 7 baseline reading assessment, we discovered that 19% of the year group had a reading proficiency level of five or more years below their actual age, with only 36% of pupils reading at age related expectations.
Alongside this, many of our pupils, including those with strong literacy skills, arrived feeling negative about reading with some thinking it was boring and a waste of time. ‘What’s the point in reading?’ one pupil asked me in September. Improving literacy on its own wasn’t enough: we had to change the way our pupils viewed reading….. click below or here for more
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