Throughout school, from Nursery to Year 6, a love of reading is fostered. Teachers choose books to share with their classes to inspire and excite them, to develop vocabulary and a love of stories. Staff are well trained in the teaching of phonics and reading. Click the link below to find out more about how we teach and support reading at Hollin Primary.
Click here to find out more about our approach to reading at Hollin
Please click the link below to access a presentation that explains our approach to the teaching and learning of phonics and early reading skills at Hollin Primary. Phonics at Hollin
Home Reading
Our pupils in Reception and Key Stage One take home ‘Books for bags’ reading books that are part of our Read, Write, Inc phonics programme. Pupils at Hollin have the opportunity to change their home reading books regularly and progress throughout the colored book bands. Pupils in Key Stage Two are able to access coloured book bands to select a home reading book.
High quality texts
Alongside their decodable home reading book, pupils in nursery, year 1 and year 2 are given the opportunity to take home a high quality text, to have read to them. These are available as a ‘Class library book’. The class library books offer the opportunity for our pupils to hear others as readers and be immersed in vocabulary rich texts.
At Hollin Primary School, we are passionate about promoting a love of reading and encouraging active book talk. We strive for our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. These ‘essential reads’ are to become a store of classics, creating a living library inside a child’s mind.
We came together to launch our BRAND NEW Reading Treasuries in Assembly on Wednesday 30th November 2022.
There are 12 carefully selected texts for each class, which were presented to classes as a book advent, during December.
You can view our Reading Treasury Assembly Powerpoint, by clicking here.
You can view the Reading Treasuries for each class by clicking below.
Our Reading Treasuries are proudly on display, in school.
Questions to support reading at home
Please click the links below to access questions that you may find useful for supporting your child's reading at home.
Key Stage 1 - Reading at home questions
Key Stage 2 - Reading at home questions
Our next reading challenge will be coming in Summer 2.
Spring 2
'Book in a box'
Theme: Design and decorate a box to represent a book of your choice.
Mrs Brokenbrow launched the new challenge in a reading assembly on Tuesday 14th March. You can view the slides for the assembly by clicking here.
We received 48 entries for our Spring reading challenge and the creativity of the boxes was outstanding. Thank you to all who have been involved. We celebrated our winners in assembly and on Twitter.
We invited two of our school governors to judge, and what a challenge they had. They selected 8 winners from Reception to Year 6 and they all received a £10 Amazon voucher.
Autumn 2
'Random reading photograph challenge'
Theme: Submit a photograph of you reading in an unusual/mysterious/strange place.
We received entries for the Autumn reading challenge from 58 pupils. Lots of our pupils submitted multiple entries. A huge thank you and well done to everyone who got involved
More information about our current reading challenge can be viewed by clicking here.
You can view the photographs from the 'Random reading photograph challenge' by clicking here.
Over the last couple of years, we have enjoyed inviting parents in to school, to learn more about our approach to reading. The events that we have hosted can be viewed below. Any future events will be communicated to you via text and our Twitter pages.
www.twitter.com/HollinPrimary and www.twitter.com/MrsBrokenbrow
Reading Meeting for parents photos - May 2022
Read Aloud Workshop presentation - March 2020
Read Aloud Workshop photos - March 2020
Our staff have created some fabulous Reading Areas for children to enjoy in their classrooms.
At Hollin, we recruit two Reading Ambassadors from each class, in Years 1-6. Reading Ambassadors are chosen for their love of reading, their willingness to share this passion with others and enthusiasm to promote reading throughout our school.
You can learn more about our Reading Ambassadors by clicking here.
We have hosted many 'Share a story' events across school, where parents and family members have been invited to share a story with their child. These events have been popular and we are looking forward to hosting more, to actively work together, to promote reading across school. Information about upcoming 'Share a story' events will be communicated to you via Text and on our class Twitter pages.
You can view photographs from previous events below
Share a story event for Reception 18.05.22
Share a story event for Year 3 20.05.22
Share a story event for Year 3H 20.05.22
Share a story event for Reception 07.12.22
Share a story information poster
Pupil Voice (Reading) - November 2022
