Reading Mentors

Our wonderful Sixth Formers (Abbey, Lauren, Chloe and Emily) have been volunteering as reading teachers this module and we are so proud of their efforts. Students in KS3 have been invited to a morning reading group where they take part in Reciprocal Reading activities for a range of fiction texts. The students have engaged so well and we are excited to see an increase in reading ages as part of our continued efforts to offer as many reading interventions as possible across the school.

What is Reciprocal Reading? Reciprocal Reading is a structured approach to help students with their reading. It uses comprehension strategies, focussing on the learners’ understanding of written text.  Reciprocal reading is broken into the following categories:  questioning, clarifying, summarising and predicting.  Evidence proves that students who actively engage and use these strategies can improve their reading comprehension.

New Reward

Over the past two weeks, staff have been able to log a new reward point called 'consistently meeting expectations'. Through parent feedback it was noted that we previously do not always reward students who always 'get it right', therefore we listened and have introduced this new reward point and will also be celebrating this in our termly reward assemblies.

Students who consistently meet our expectations in terms of behaviour, uniform, line up expectations, conduct in and around the school site etc can be given this reward point and staff are ensuring that all students can be recognised each lesson for their compliance and hard work.

1279 'consistently meeting expectations' rewards points have been logged over the past 13 days and so well done to our students for continually working so hard with us to ensure that Strood Academy is committed to excellence.