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11/07/23

Celebrating creativity in all forms, the VIAT Festival of Creativity was a huge success!It was such a joy to see so many prospective, current and former students celebrating creativity and enjoying the events.Well done to everyone involved and thank you to all who came along! pic.twitter.com/1BxUVv04eH

11/07/23

The book has arrived and some of our KS2 Choir can't wait to get started! Want to come? Children who will be in KS2 in September can sign up now https://t.co/GaPGyEBDtO you don't want to miss this. pic.twitter.com/aTveld9R4e

11/07/23

What an amazing performance by our school choir at the VIAT Festival of Creativity on Saturday. They sang beautifully and confidently. We are so proud of them all. pic.twitter.com/02mn8qNf73

11/07/23

Celebrating creativity in all forms, the VIAT Festival of Creativity was a huge success!It was such a joy to see so many prospective, current and former students celebrating creativity and enjoying the events.Well done to everyone involved and thank you to all who came along! pic.twitter.com/1BxUVv04eH

05/07/23

Mr Royston & Mr Chirnside have been practising for the VIAT Festival of Creativity, where pro Freestyle Footballer Jamie Knight will be hosting masterclasses!Book here: VIAT Festival - VIAT Festival - A Festival of Creativity Tickets, Sat 8 Jul 2023 at 11:00 | Eventbrite pic.twitter.com/pma4qUqE3t

05/07/23

We are so excited that Chelsea Little from the kmfm Breakfast Show will be joining us at the VIAT Festival of Creativity from 12pm!Book your free General Admission ticket here: https://t.co/NFH3tDuMVZ pic.twitter.com/t1AqJW4qPA

05/07/23

A sneak peek of the Art Exhibition that will open this Saturday for the VIAT Festival of Creativity! To book a free general admission ticket which includes entry to the exhibition, please click here: https://t.co/NFH3tDuMVZ pic.twitter.com/shErdA7RVi

27/06/23

Not too long to go! https://t.co/sAZS4l9jh4

27/06/23

Not too long to go! https://t.co/sAZS4l9jh4

21/06/23

The VIAT Festival of Creativity is a vibrant celebration of creativity and talent, featuring a diverse range of events and activities. To book or view the activities and events, head to the link in our bio! 🎷🎺🎨#kent pic.twitter.com/HpUUo1Hj8e

21/06/23

A sneak peak of this year's VIAT Festival!Expect to see a variety of Art, Literature, Drama and Music performances from students across the Trust. Also attending this year is who will be performing creative Freestyle Football and hosting masterclasses on the day! pic.twitter.com/tqRjlaW6cg

20/06/23

The VIAT Festival of Creativity is a vibrant celebration of creativity and talent, featuring a diverse range of events and activities. To book or view the activities and events, head to the link in our bio! 🎷🎺🎨#kent pic.twitter.com/HpUUo1Hj8e

16/06/23

A sneak peak of this year's VIAT Festival!Expect to see a variety of Art, Literature, Drama and Music performances from students across the Trust. Also attending this year is who will be performing creative Freestyle Football and hosting masterclasses on the day! pic.twitter.com/tqRjlaW6cg

05/06/23

Are you looking for a new challenge? We would like a new Classroom Teacher (Key Stage 2) to join our friendly team! You can find all the details on our website - https://t.co/NPKxiMjjlq pic.twitter.com/xPFrXCMiSz

21/04/23

*SAVE THE DATE*Saturday 8th July, 11am - 4pmAn exciting performance opportunity for our pupils at the VIAT Festival of Creativity.Keep your eyes peeled for more information on how to get your child involved. pic.twitter.com/14jBuVfsRP

30/03/23

Year 1 watercolours By pic.twitter.com/XIRjTtHhpD

13/03/23

On Friday, Year 5 played Beat the Flood and designed houses that would prevent against flood damage. They looked at different materials and had to keep to a budget pic.twitter.com/dz6yseHLNN

10/03/23

Today we welcomed who was here to present Zoe in Yr 5 with a prize for winning "Litter Angels anti-litter poster competition" Zoe won a goodie bag for herself & £100 for the school. You can find Zoe's poster displayed in McDonalds in Tonbridge. Well done Zoe pic.twitter.com/qXS2DHfu4U

06/03/23

Year 1 water colours pic.twitter.com/Dz5Xx7OZcR

24/02/23

Are you a teacher looking for a new challenge? We have a vacancy in our Specialist Resource Provision so why not consider joining our friendly team? You can find all the info here: https://t.co/agxFMAh4orAnd you can watch a video about VIAT SRPs here: https://t.co/EgRj0ybzbE pic.twitter.com/H1l86gcAFz

09/02/23

Our PTA have been working with our teachers to update our class reading corners, Year 2 is now finished and the children are loving their new space. Thank you to our PTA and all of our parents/grandparents who support our fundraising events. pic.twitter.com/tgTUjM7jyz

08/02/23

Year 6 had a wonderful day visiting starting with a tour of the Globe Theatre followed by a practical drama workshop on Macbeth Thank you Shakespeare's Globe. pic.twitter.com/kVjDuvwHJa

25/01/23

Are you looking for a new challenge? We would like a Caretaker to join our friendly team - you can find all the details here: https://t.co/NPKxiMjRaY pic.twitter.com/jQp0odlgQ8

20/01/23

Congratulations to everyone in yellow house pic.twitter.com/zk7LW9eCdr

19/01/23

Would you like to join our friendly team? We are currently looking for a full-time Caretaker - you can find all the details, and apply, here: https://t.co/ZmpPgcaD7m

Reading

At Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase we aim for our reading curriculum to encourage children to develop a love of reading, helping to promote imagination, creativity and for our children to become life-long learners. Our goal is to create a positive reading culture in our school and for this to extend into the home, making reading an integral part of our children’s daily lives.

Intent, Implementation, Impact:

Intent

Implementation

Impact

To provide children with a rich and varied diet of texts to promote a love of reading.

To give pupils a clear purpose to their reading. 

  • Choose rich and exciting texts which the children can connect with.
  • Teachers to carefully select texts chosen and be able to justify their choices, e.g. links to termly themes, high quality vocabulary etc.
  • Teachers to model reading age-appropriate and high-level texts to inspire children to do the same.
  • Teacher should select a wide range of books that encourage the development of key areas, including: word reading, literal understanding and retrieval, inference, response to text, fluency and phrasing
  • Ensure that there are a range of texts available in the library for each ZPD range, so that children can quiz on a range of text types.
  • Create a reading environment that is engaging and stimulating, including book corners and displays that promote reading.
  •  Library – Children visit our well-stocked library to choose books from our AR collection.
  • Children to be motivated and enthusiastic readers.
  • Children can independently select texts that are of high-quality.
  • Children will generally demonstrate a positive attitude towards reading.
  • Children can confidently discuss how their texts in Novel Study and/or English lessons link to the termly themes within the school. They can share related vocabulary surrounding the theme.
  • Children read more regularly at home and quiz an average of 1 time a week (once a fortnight for chapter books).
  • Children of all abilities will be able to access reading comprehension activities.

To develop children’s comprehension skills.

  • Ensure that Novel Study planning is consistently at a high quality and that it meets the skills set out in the National Curriculum. Lessons should provide children with the opportunity to answer a range of question types.
  • Adapt the curriculum to suit all children’s needs
  • Teachers to monitor the children’s use of AR and ensure that they quiz regularly. Teachers should follow up with children who aren’t quizzing in line with the school’s expectations.
  • Engage in book talk during reading sessions and create a reading culture through displays in the school.
  • Teachers should model reading, including reading with expression and to punctuation. Teachers should also model responses to comprehension questions.
  • To ensure reading progression, including in termly data.
  • More children will achieve age related expectations at the end of their cohort year.
  • Children will have increased their familiarity with different question types and, as a result, have confidence when faced with a reading assessment.

 

To develop verbal reading skills and reading fluency of all children.

  • When reading aloud, teachers should model reading with expression, intonation, pace and to punctuation.
  • Provide frequent opportunities for shared and independent reading so that pupils can develop confidence and fluency of reading in a safe setting among their peers.
  • Teachers monitor children’s progress on Accelerated Reader on a weekly basis.
  • Children will have developed life-long reading skills, improving their ability to read (and confidence when reading) a text.
  • Children will become fluent readers and will be able to use the correct expression, intonation or pace to reflect the content of the novel.
  • To develop and improve children’s oracy skills.

To enable children to make links across genres, between authors and to their own experiences.

To encourage confidence in book talk and understanding of author choice.

  • Every Novel Study lesson will involve high-quality discussions about the text.
  • Reading displays in the school will raise the profile of reading and provide children with recommendations for books.
  •  Library – Children visit our well-stocked library to choose books from our AR collection.
  • Children will be able to make clear links between different genres, identifying similarities and differences and will be able to discuss themes with confidence and clarity.
  • Children will understand author’s intentions, can reflect on different writing styles / techniques and can identify and discuss a range of writing conventions.
  • Children will be able to reflect on their own experiences in relation to the novel being studied and discuss the comparisons between the two.
  • To encourage a love of reading and to promote enthusiasm and enjoyment towards reading.
  • To create a positive reading culture at school.
  • Pupils will enjoy reading across a range of genres and will have a good knowledge of a range of authors.

To develop and extend children’s vocabulary.

  • Vocabulary on the working wall. New words will be added to the board during each Novel Study lesson and at the end of each week.
  • Each Novel Study session begins with vocabulary, including previously explored vocabulary and any new vocabulary.
  • Reading at home - all children are expected to read at home at least 5 times a week. This is carefully monitored by teachers to ensure that children are getting the practice they need to enable progress towards fluency.
  • Children will be able to produce effective written work of a similar standard in all areas of the curriculum which evidences good progress.
  • Children will develop a wide vocabulary base on which to draw from when developing their own written compositions.
  • Children’s own vocabulary will show improvement and verbal interactions will be enriched.
  • To develop and improve children’s oracy skills.

To give children a clear purpose to their reading.

  • Texts are carefully chosen and carefully picked to reflect the school’s termly themes and topics that are being explored in the class.
  • Book talk is integral to the lesson, allowing the children opportunity to express their views and opinions surrounding a story.
  • To encourage children to make cross-curricular links with what they have read to other curriculum areas e.g. history, geography and science.
  • Children can discuss how their books in class relate to the school’s termly themes.
  • Children will generally have a positive attitude to reading and will be increasingly confident to talk about books.

Create a home-school partnership for reading.

  • Allow children the opportunity to quiz on books at home and encourage them to engage in book talk with their parents/carers.
  • All children to have access to AR so that the curriculum is adapted to meet all children’s needs. 
  • Reading at home - all children are expected to read at home at least 5 times a week. This is carefully monitored by teachers to ensure that children are getting the practice they need to enable progress towards fluency.
  • Teachers monitor reading quizzes on a weekly basis to address strengths, areas for development and those children who aren’t engaging with the quizzes.
  • Ensure that parents are informed of the school’s reading curriculum, including what AR is and how children can quiz. Parents to be able to monitor the children’s quizzing.
  • To create a life-long love of learning and ability to read for pleasure.
  • Children will recognise reading as an important and enjoyable part of their daily routine.
  • Children will develop life-long reading skills and will have increased their confidence with reading.
  • Parents and carers will have a good understanding of how they can support reading at home.

 

At Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase, our Reading curriculum is delivered in two key parts: through VIPERS lessons and the use of Accelerated Reader. These begin as soon as children have completed the Read, Write Inc Phonics scheme.

VIPERS lessons provide children with the opportunity to be taught, and to develop their, reading comprehension skills and to allow them to know, remember and understand more about reading. The delivery and content of the curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • read easily, fluently and with good understanding;
  • develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information;
  • acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language;
  • appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage;
  • write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences;
  • use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas;
  • are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.

Accelerated Reader:

Accelerated Reader is used as a tool to enable children to further apply this knowledge by quizzing on stories that they have been reading.

Children have the opportunity to quiz at home and in school, allowing teachers to monitor home learning, and results of quizzes are recorded on the system, enabling staff to track progress throughout the year.

Our curriculum aims to be accessible to all, helping to maximise the development of every child’s ability and academic achievement in the area of Reading. The curriculum also aims to raise the profile of reading, providing children with opportunities to be read to and to read to others and also allowing children to engage in book talk and share their opinions. Through this approach and the use of Accelerated Reader in school and at home, should enable children to know more about authors, the author’s intentions for the audience, to remember more about vocabulary and understand how to use and apply their reading skills to impact upon their reading comprehension progression.

We also promote a love of reading in school through opportunities to read around our curriculum with access to both fiction and non-fiction texts related to our themes, access to a wide variety books in our classrooms and library and teachers who model a love of reading themselves.  

The use of Accelerated Reader as a monitoring tool enables children, teachers and parents to track their reading development, providing an understanding of their reading level and encouraging children to be exposed to comprehension questions on a regular basis.

Children are encouraged to quiz once a week on a story that they have been reading (once a fortnight for children reading chapter books) and they have the opportunity to do this both at home and in school. Teachers monitor this through their own AR pages, where they can track quizzes being taken and percentage pass rates. The aims of using AR as a tool for reading development include:

  • To encourage children to read a wide range of stories;
  • To continue to develop their comprehension skills through frequent exposure to comprehension questions;
  • To bridge the gap between home and school learning;
  • Raising the profile of reading at home;
  • To provide a tool that is accessible to children of all ability levels;
  • To provide staff with a clear monitoring tool for analysing attainment and progress.

For Accelerated Reader quizzing, please login using the link below: 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/5980237

AR Parents guide

AR Introduction Letter 

Our Library:

This year we have invested a lot of money into our Library to make it a comfortable and exciting place for children to develop their love of reading. Here are some pictures of the children enjoying the space!

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Recommended Reading:
Reception Class
Year 1
Year 2

In Key Stage 2 we encourage children to read a variety of high quality texts.  During whole class reading sessions teachers develop reading skills in line with the National Curriculum Expectations.

Recommended Reading
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Reading Aims 

  • To raise the profile of reading in order to encourage and promote a life-long love of reading; 
  • To ensure that all children develop the ability to read easily, fluently and with good understanding;
  • To allow children to know, remember and understand more with regards to their reading skills; 
  • To allow the children to acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language; 
  • To develop in our children the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information;
  • To develop an appreciation for our rich and varied literary heritage;
  • To develop a broad range of reading skills that can be applied to a wide range of reading text types and genres across the whole curriculum;
  • To provide children with opportunities to experience reading in a range of contexts, including independent reading time, being read to and reading aloud;
  • To enable our children to be competent in the arts of speaking and listening; making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate;
  • To commit (finance and time) to providing pupils with a range of resources to stimulate their desire to read;  
  • To create confident, independent readers;  
  • To prepare pupils for the next stages of their education.

Progression of Literal Understanding and Retrieval

Progression of Inferential Reading Skills

Progression of Response to Text

Progression of Fluency and Phrasing