St Botolph's C of E Primary School
New day...endless possibilities
After being in this school for only one year, I am so pleased with the progress that both of my children are making. Class teachers are fantastic and always approachable no matter how busy they are, and I must say Mrs Pepper is FANTASTIC! I love attending the assemblies and school activities because of how enthusiastic she and all the teachers are! Keep up the good work.
This is the most AMAZING school I know (and I work in schools!). The teaching staff (and other staff) are so lovely to my children and really care about them. My children love going to school, my son has autism and he has soared with the help of SENCO and his lovely one to one, is like his best friend. She is superb as are so many others. We could not have asked for a better school. Thanks for giving my kids the best start to school life.
Our son is so happy to go to school every day! It is such a relief and comfort to know he is happy and settled in a wonderful environment with kind and caring staff members. Our son has come on leaps and bounds and it’s lovely to see the updates through the app of all the different activities he does every day. We can’t thank the staff enough for the brilliant first year he’s had.
Help your child with reading
At St Botolph's CE Primary School, we have high expectation of our children as readers and we value reading as an essential life skill that empowers them to achieve their full potential.
Our aims
- To teach every child to become a fluent and confident reader.
- To give children the necessary reading skills to enbable their learning in all subjects across the curriculum.
- To instill a love of learning, in order that each child can become lifelong readers.
Why it is important that children continue their enjoyment of reading
- Reading for pleasure has positive social and emotional consequences.
- There are positive links between reading enjoyment, reading fluency and levels of attainment.
- The more often, and the more widely, you read, the better you become at it!
- Reading helps to develop empathy, language, vocabulary, grammar and imagination.
- Independent reading is the best predictor of children's reading achievement overall.
- Reading for pleasure vastly improves spelling, grammar, writing ability and general knowledge.
- It improves concentrstion and builds new connections in the brain.
- Reading is a great way to relax and/or spend time together.
To help your child reach their full potential, we would like your support in encouraging and enagaging in their reading.
Tips to help support your child with their reading
Here are some points to support you when reading at home with your child. Regular, daily reading is the key to success. Please use the following guidelines to help you:
- Make sure it is a time that suits yourself and your child.
- Make sure you are relaxed and comfortable during the session.
- Mke a special area, preferably quiet and comfortable.
- Encourage your child to read with expression.
- Discuss the meaning of difficut words.
- Ask questions about the character, setting, plot, events in the book etc...
- If your child is not enjoying the book, stop reading it and ask them to change the book.
- Try and make sure that your child reads a range of different books.
- Model the reading process.
- Get caught reading yourself! Let children see you reading in daily life eg, reading newspapers, information boards, noticeboards, recipes, etc...
- Be enthusiastice. Give lots of praise and encouragement.
- If your child is reluctant to read to you, tried paired reading. You read a page and they read a page until they feel confident to read indepdently.
- Keep up a regular dialogue with your child's teacher through the reading diary.