Reading
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.” ~ Margaret Atwood
Reading is a fundamental skill that all young people will need as they move through their learning journey at King’s Academy Brune Park and transition into the wider world. Our aim is to ensure that all pupils read widely and often. We support readers to be confident and fluent whilst challenging them to access texts above their chronological age that enrich, inspire and broaden pupils’ experiences of the world.
The School Library
Details about the school library can be found here.
Reading Canon
The Reading Canon has been designed to provide pupils with a list of books that are engaging, diverse, inclusive and suited to each year group. The books have been chosen as they link to the school curriculum whilst also challenging our pupils with reading. Pupils are encouraged to read as many of the recommended texts which have been linked to a number of reading initiatives in school.
KS3 Reading Canon KS4-5 Reading Canon
Reading Across the Curriculum
Here at King’s Academy Brune Park, we firmly believe that all teachers are teachers of Reading. Literacy Champions in every subject are working on embedding key explicit Literacy and Reading teaching strategies within their departments. Pupils are rewarded for successfully completing five reading homeworks, through a Reading Passport scheme.
Library Lessons
Structured library lessons provide pupils with the opportunity to explore a variety of genres and authors, offers time for shared and private reading and is a way of encouraging wider reading. By offering pupils dedicated reading for pleasure time, we hope that this, in turn, supports our whole school reading culture, the importance of reading widely and the benefits reading has on our wellbeing and academic progress.
Interventions
At King’s Academy Brune Park, all pupils in Year 7-10 are tested for reading. Pupils identified that require further support with reading have access to bespoke intervention sessions.
How to support your child with reading
Please see our useful guide HERE on supporting your child’s reading progress.
Our Reading Events Calendar 2024-2025 is below:
| September 6th – National Read a Book Day13th – Roald Dahl Day Year 7 library Inductions KS3 library lessons (Banned Books) | October1st – 31st – Black History Month1st – 31st – Horror Genre Month ( including KS3 library lessons theme of creatures and monsters)3rd – National Poetry Day10th – World Mental Health Day17th – Harry Potter Book Day | November31st Oct – 1st Nov – Diwali1st – 30th – National Non-Fiction November5th – Bonfire Night11th – Remembrance Day18th – High Five a Librarian Day! KS3 library lessons (War Genre) | December1st – 31st – Festivities Month (including Christmas)Bookbuzz – free book gift for Year 7Jólabókaflóð – the Christmas book floodKS3 library lessons (Christmas Genre with The Grinch theme) |
| January 22nd – Library Shelfie Day (selfies with your favourite book event)27th – Holocaust Memorial Day KS3 library lessons (Classics Genre) | February 1st – 9th Feb – National Storytelling Week3rd – 9th – Children’s Mental Health Week5th – World Read Aloud Day10th – 16th – Chinese New Year14th – Library Lovers Day (Blind date a book event). KS3 library lessons (Storytelling and World Book Day) | March 3rd – 8th – National Careers Week6th – World Book Day8th – International Women’s Day21st – Comic Relief (Red Nose Day)Easter – Crack open a book event. KS3 library lessons (World Book Day and Humour genre) | April 12th – Drop Everything and Read Day (DEAR)22nd – Earth Day23rd – Shakespeare Day23rd – World Book Night KS3 library lessons (Humour genre) |
| May 22nd – Sherlock Holmes Day KS3 library lessons (Dystopian Genre) | June 1st-30th – Pride Month6th – National Empathy Day16th – 22nd – Refugee Week25th – National Writing Day KS3 library lessons (Travel/Different Countries) | July Year 6 Transition17th – World Emoji DayScholastic Book Fair KS3 library lessons (Summer Reads) | August Summer Reading Challenge |