READING
In Year One
In your child's first year at school, you will become familiar with the reading colour wheel. The wheel is made up of 9 different colours that show your child's progress on their way to becoming a strong reader. They will begin by reading simple books at the magenta level and progress up through the colours. In their reading they will not just learn to read words, but to understand and talk about the stories they read.
After one year of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Two
In your child's second year at school they will learn to read longer texts that might include diagrams with labels, some new words and descriptive language. To work out words they don't know they will use what they know about letters and other words in the writing. The stories they read will have a variety of sentence structures. Your child will be taught to focus on punctuation with a focus on how it guides the way we use expression, and how it can alter meaning. Your child will bring home both fiction and non-fiction books.
After two years of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Three
In your child's third year at school, they will bring home books to read to you that include some places, events, topics and words that will be new to them. Your child will be able to use pictures and other parts of the book (sub-headings, text boxes, footnotes, glossaries, indexes, diagrams, maps) to work out the meaning. They may also be reading articles about science, art or other curriculum areas e.g. about life cycles of an insect.
After three years of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Four
In your child's fourth year at school, they will be independently reading a range of fiction and non-fiction books. They will use this reading to support their learning in all areas of the curriculum. Their reading material will include some compound and complex sentences, which may consist of 2 or 3 clauses. They will also be introduced to figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, and personification.
After four years of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Five
In your child's fifth year at school, they will be reading and learning to understand a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. Texts will include more abstract ideas and figurative language, longer sentences with multiple clauses, different text types and a significant number of words that are likely to be unfamiliar to your child.
After five years of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Six
In your child's sixth year at school, they will be reading non-fiction books, chapter books, magazines and information on the computer. They'll be reading these kinds of texts in all areas of the curriculum.
After six years of learning reading at school most children will be able to:
In Year Seven
In your child's seventh year at school, they'll be learning to find, think about, and bring together information and ideas within and across a range of books and articles. As they do this they will be able to think of their own questions and be able to answer questions they are asked across all curriculum areas.
After seven years of learning reading at school they will likely be able to:
In Year Eight
In your child's eighth year at school, they will be learning to find, think about, and bring together information and ideas within and across a range of books, stories, and articles. As they do this they will be able to ask and answer questions across all the curriculum areas.
After eight years of learning reading at school they will likely be able to:
You may notice that the books your child is reading in Years 7 and 8 are sometimes the same. Your child will be doing more complex tasks with these books in Year 8.
The Minister of Education has advised that schools may have 2 teacher-only days to address the new maths and literacy programmes. SPC staff are joining other Catholic schools on Monday, 19th May and Monday 14th July (not Friday,15th August) as previously advertised. The days will be facilitated by advisers from the Ministry of Education.
TEACHER ONLY DAY
MONDAY 14TH JULY
SCHOOL CLOSED