Morda C

Vision for Reading Learning

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. 

 Early talk is the critical first port of call on children’s Reading journey. By sharing wonderful stories from brilliant authors from day 1 at Morda, we are teaching children to imagine: especially those pupils 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. 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 their 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 and library room are well stocked with engaging picture and information books to reading for pleasure. 

The school has excellent links with a local independent book shop and children have opportunities to take part in meet the author events and purchase or borrow signed copies of exciting new children's literature. Children also take part in other reading events such as help judging the Young People’s Book Prize for the Science Society. 

The school is signed up to the 'Bean Stalk Voluntary Readers Scheme' and more reluctant readers have regular opportunities to read with our fantastic adult volunteers   
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We hope that pupils leave Morda influenced and inspired by the books they have read with the hunger to read more. 
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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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