Literacy at The Vyne

Literacy is at the heart of our teaching.  Through reading, writing and talking across the curriculum, students are encouraged to develop core life skills. We monitor progress carefully by conducting annual reading and spelling tests.  This precise data allows teachers to plan lessons that adapt to our students’ needs.

Reading

For all of our students, we embed classroom reading across all subjects. We choose challenging, engaging subject specific texts to teach students valuable skills when approaching unseen texts.  We call this ‘Three Steps to Reading’.  We are a reading school; all students are expected to read aloud in all subjects.  

Vocabulary

To promote progression in vocabulary building, students are taught specific words used in subjects.  These are known as Tier 3 words.  Please find a link to these below.  Ambitious words that appear frequently across all subjects in the curriculum and exams are known as Tier 2 words.  These are taught via Bedrock Learning.  This is an online platform that creates a personalised vocabulary curriculum for students, teaching them new words and helping to remember them.. 

Literacy Interventions

When a student has been identified as reading well below their actual age, we take steps to close the gap.  The interventions that we offer include: phonics, fluency, comprehension and handwriting.  These interventions help students to discover enjoyment in reading and writing skills, skills that will be valuable for the rest of their lives.