Morda C

Vision for Reading Learning

INTENT
​At Morda reading is at the heart of the whole curriculum. We want all our pupils to become confident and reflective readers and develop a life-long love of reading. From the foundation stage onwards, Morda pupils are introduced to engaging high quality story, poem and non-fiction books which they share with their teachers and other adults in school and at home. 
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 IMPLEMENTATION 
Early talk is the critical first port of call on children’s Reading journey. By sharing wonderful stories from brilliant authors from day one at Morda, we are teaching children to imagine: especially those pupils with speech and language issues or other disadvantages.

Through carefully sequenced phonics and reading teaching and regular reading practice, pupils work to become fluent and expressive readers.  Pupils successfully follow the Read, Write Inc phonics and reading scheme as soon as they start with us.  Pupils begin by learning the phonetical sounds forming the basis of decoding words and sentences.  In Guided Reading and Reading Mastery lessons pupils learn the skills to reflect on their reading. They develop comprehension, inference and evaluation skills and begin to analyse writer techniques. Pupils then use this knowledge to improve their writing.

Pupils are introduced to attractive engaging age appropriate reading books, as well as poetry, plays and non-fiction texts, which they use to aid their wider learning. They are guided and challenged in their choice of  reading books and encouraged to read a wide range of genres, classic and modern texts. Books are chosen to represent a variety of cultures. The school’s book banding system helps pupils choose appropriately levelled books and our bookshelves are well stocked with engaging picture and information books for pupils’ enjoyment and pleasure.
•SEND children in the school are given the bespoke support they need to reach their individual targets (catch up phonics, dyslexia tutoring and 1-1 additional reading ).

IMPACT 
As we believe that reading is key to all learning, the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond the result of statutory assessments. Children have the opportunity to enter the wide and varied magical worlds that reading opens up to them. As they develop their own interest in books, a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles is enhanced.

Through the teaching of systematic phonics and reading enquiry, our aim is for children to become fluent and confident readers who can apply their knowledge and experience to a range of texts through the Key Stage 2 curriculum.

As a Year 6 reader, transition into secondary school, we aspire that children are fluent, confident and able readers, who can access a range of texts for pleasure and enjoyment, as well as use their reading skills to unlock learning and all areas of the curriculum. We firmly believe that reading is the key to all learning.

At Morda we work hard to ensure: parents and carers will have a good understanding of how they can support reading at home, and contribute regularly to home-school records; There will be no significant gaps in the progress of different groups of pupils (e.g. disadvantaged vs non-disadvantaged) and all children  make good progress from their starting points.
•Our pupils leave Morda influenced and inspired by the books they have read with the hunger to read more. 

​PLEASE SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR OUR READING CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS 
WORLD BOOK DAY BOOK BLAST! MARCH 2023
To celebrate World Book Day we held an event in the library, with pupils in years 5 and 6 choosing a book to share with the pupils in Bluebells Class. After practising reading the books and thinking of ways to involve the younger pupils in the books, the pupils from Shamrocks and Roses class shared their books with confidence and enthusiasm. Bluebells Class enjoyed being read to in the library and they all want to do this again! The school governors, Mrs Leach and Mrs Shaw, came in to see the event and to help. Well done to everyone involved!
Mrs H. Jones (Morda Book Champion).
CHRISTMAS BOOKS DEC  2022
Morda Reading Champions have created fantastic Christmas book displays and children are excitedly reading the lovely books. How many can you read before Christmas? 

Cafe Morda - Book tasting event! 7/10/22

On Friday our school library was transformed into ‘Cafe Morda’ for a special event which involved the reading champions becoming chefs for the day! The reading champions put on their chef’s hats and false moustaches and chose different genres of books that they thought the pupils in the different classes would like, setting out trays of poetry, biographies, non-fiction and fiction to be delivered to the tables for the visiting classes to sample. Pupils completed a menu plan, choosing a book from each different genre for each course of a meal, with many taking away a new book to read which they hadn’t considered before. 
Family members and carers visited the library after school to see the wide range of new books available to borrow and to experience the ‘Cafe’.
Pupils in Shamrocks Class described how they enjoyed the French style of the Cafe and liked trying  out new books, especially poetry. Well done Morda reading champions for hosting a great event!
Mrs H Jones

WORLD BOOK DAY 2022 The Masked Reader comes to Morda 

You've all heard of 'The Masked Singer', the surprising singing show that asks: "Who is behind the mask?"  Well now, just for the Morda Primary School, we have 'The Masked Reader'! 
We celebrated World Book Day 2022 by putting on our very own Morda production of ‘The Masked Reader’. Every pupil became a detective, looking and listening for clues to work out which member of staff was the disguised reader. The characters - Poodle, Tiger, Unicorn and Ox read from their favourite books and poems, including ‘Dairy of a Minecraft Princess’, ‘On the Ning Nang Nong’, ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’ and ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen. There were some shocks and surprises when the masks came off!

Christmas Reading for Pleasure 

Mrs Jones , our reading champion, has created some wonderful displays of Christmas books in all our classes and children are enjoying some magical reading at this special time of year. The Daffodils class particularly likes funny books like Dr Zeus' 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' and 'The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas' by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter.   The Roses' favourite book has been ' Where Snow Angels Go?' by  Maggie O'Farrell and they also particularly enjoyed, Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'  illustrated by Alan Marks; 'The Christmas Pig' by J K Rowling; 'Dasher' by Mat Taveres and 'The Robin and the Reindeer' by Rosa Bailey and Carman Salanda. The Shamrocks favourites included , 'The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List' by Tom Fletcher; 'Snow Dragon' by Abi Elphinstone and 'Father Christmas and Me' by Matt Haig.  

Morda Library Leaders Christmas Book Stall  Dec 21

The year 5/6 library leaders organised a book stall of donated books and helped children choose books by giving recommendations of books they have read.  

Morda Library Leaders Judging 
​Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2021​

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We are very lucky to have been chosen to be one of the schools from across the UK to form a judging panel for the Royal Society of Science Young People’s Book Prize 2021. This means that we receive six brilliant science books to keep, which we then read carefully and discuss and decide upon our winner. We have to consider the look and feel of the book as well as whether we find it inspiring and interesting.
In our judging so far we have reviewed ‘Agent Asha: Mission Shark Bytes’, with Roses library leaders describing how they ‘liked the colour and animation’ and felt that the book was ‘equally interesting for girls and boys’ because of the range of characters. The hardback book ‘Inventors’ was very popular and the Roses class judges felt that there were ‘lots of inventions on the front cover, such as a penny-farthing and a lightbulb, which get you involved’ and that overall it had ‘a lot of cool things in it!’.
We are looking forward to judging the remaining four books!

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