Intent

At Bandon Hill, we dare to dream. Our mission is to encourage daring, resilient, enquiring, ambitious and motivated readers, providing them with the skills and enthusiasm to tackle a variety of different texts throughout their school journey. We aim to inspire children to be daring readers by deliberately choosing quality texts from diverse authors that challenge pupils through addressing ‘five plagues of Reading’ (Doug Lemov, Reading Reconsidered) and offer children ‘mirrors, windows and sliding doors on to the world’ (Rudine Sims Bishop).  We offer a reading diet that reflects children’s current identities, develops empathy through exploring the lives of others and provides escapism into imagination.

Our intentions in reading are for children to:

• Develop the skills of decoding, fluency and comprehension

• Be daring in the texts that they choose to read.

• Encourage resilience and independence in reading; to ensure that children are not deterred by texts that may be deemed as ‘too challenging’.

• Equipping the child with the skills to effectively read and understand challenging texts. 

• Nurture inquisitive and enquiring attitudes through engaging and stimulating texts.

• Encourage ambitious text choices that stretch and challenge.

• Empower children to be motivated readers and understand the importance of reading for pleasure.