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2025/26 Year 6 Transition Information Page
TTC Reading Strategy:
TTC Reading Strategy:
At Tendring Technology College we are dedicated to ensuring that the Literacy skills of our pupils are a top priority. We want all students to be fluent readers with developed literacy skills which will allow them to not only succeed academically but in life beyond school. Our current priorities:
Implementing a universal three-stage approach to reading
Using assessment data to plan targeted literacy intervention
Future priorities:
Raise the profile of reading for pleasure
Closing the vocabulary gap through the explicit teaching of tier two and tier three vocabulary
Improve the quality of extended writing across the curriculum
LRC Key Information and Reminders:
LRC Key Information and Reminders:
Thorpe Campus library is located at the bottom of the English corridor in Landermere block. It is directed by Miss Davey, who is our Library Manager. We also have a team of ten Library Leaders, who are students in Year 7-9 who play an important role in the day-to-day running of the library.
You can explore the library catalogue at any time, at school or at home! Use the AccessIt tile on your RM Unify dashboard, or visit AccessIt and log in with your TTC email address and password.
Our rules:
Be polite, respectful and considerate to staff and other students, including Library Leaders.
The library is an active learning space and quiet voices need to be used to allow others to concentrate on their work.
All library resources must be checked out through the main desk before you leave the library.
Coats and bags - except for Chromebook cases - should be left neatly in the bag racks outside the library, not brought inside.
Students are not permitted to eat or drink in the library. Leave snacks, lunch and water bottles outside.
Place all rubbish in the bin and tuck chairs neatly under tables upon leaving the library so that the space is ready for others to use after you.
In line with the College ICT policy, use of the library computers for gaming, social media or Youtube is not permitted.
The Importance of Reading
The Importance of Reading
The human brain did not evolve to read. It evolved to help us achieve a few basic things: avoid predators, find food, find shelter. It just so happens that, by evolving the way it did, it also enabled us to become great problem solvers. It was able to invent the wheel, master fire, develop weapons for hunting and defence, and to start making tools. It also worked out that it could use symbols to communicate ideas. This changed everything.
When humans started communicating with symbols, which slowly grew more complex and became words, their brains started to change even more dramatically. Learning to read forces the brain to build a huge number of new pathways and processes. With regular practice, it is very good at doing this. When young people learn to read, their brain begins to completely rewire itself, becoming ever more complex as it does so. And, just as our early brain was able to do things that it did not evolve to do, this new, rewired brain is capable of doing so much more than it has been built for. It’s as if reading gives us another evolutionary step that we all get to benefit from.
The reading brain, with its huge network of neurons, pathways and processes, is able to problem solve in ways it never could before. It can focus for long periods and think more deeply than it would otherwise be able to do. It’s better at dealing with stress and building relationships with others and it has a greater ability to learn new skills. These benefits add up to a collection of qualities that lead to success not just in school, but for the rest of our lives. On this page, you will find information about how we support students in developing this essential skill.
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