Kirkstall St. Stephen’s C of E (Voluntary Aided) Primary School

What a super day had by all on World Book Day! The children all worked really hard on their poetry recitals and every class did brilliantly with their poetry performance in the hall and the staff had everybody laughing with their performance of Roald Dahls 'Revolting Rhymes'.

What a super day had by all on World Book Day! The children and staff went to great effort on their outfits and all looked amazing! The children all worked really hard on their poetry recitals and every class did brilliantly with their poetry performance in the hall and the staff had everybody laughing with their performance of Roald Dahls 'Revolting Rhymes'.

Links to poems to learn and perform in school on March 7th 2019. Links to poems by women too for international women's week also.

• link to poems.docx
• poems by women.docx

At Kirkstall St Stephen's we teach reading through the 'ten key skills' which are: Goal Preview Monitor Visualise Infer Question Retrieval Vocabulary Summarise Predict

• Letter to parents 1-1 readers.doc

• literacy overview.doc

At KSS we all dressed up as our favourite character on World Book Day. The teachers performed an assembly for the children based on famous characters from popular children's books. In the afternoon the parents joined us to read with the children. It was lovely to see so many parents attend!

                                             Our aim is to foster a love of reading so that children read for pleasure and enjoyment! 

Here at Kirkstall St Stephen’s English is a core subject and is embedded across the curriculum. It is a life skill which is essential to the development of the child and will help enhance learning in all areas.  The acquisition of English is essential since it encompasses all areas of learning and as such we would encourage, where appropriate, a cross curricular approach to the teaching of English as this can be exploited to provide meaningful learning contexts.

At Kirkstall St Stephens we strive to achieve a more creative and experiential approach to the curriculum. We strive to create a community of readers and writers who use their skills confidently and competently. 

Here at Kirkstall St Stephen's we initially teaching reading through a synthetic phonics programme.
We use:

• Jolly phonics (Reception)
• Letters and sounds (Year 1 and 2)
• Rising stars weekly spelling tests

In Year 2 and key stage 2 we also use:
 

• A variety of texts linking to topics to teach the 10 key comprehension skills.

• Various different resources and book schemes to teach the national curriculum comprehension skills for each year goup

The attached files for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 contain the following key information for parents: * Book bands

• Year 2 Reading information (1).docx
• Year 1 Reading information (2).docx