St. Aidan’s Catholic Primary Academy

World Book Day Can you recognise the 'masked' readers below? Take the challenge!

Irish Lion

Fuzzy Bear

Broccoli

Our Vision for Reading

At St. Aidan’s, we aim to foster a lifelong love for reading. In order to do this, children are encouraged to read a variety of books through their banded class readers. We believe reading is a vital skill to promote understanding of our world. We intend that our children would be both reflective and independent readers who can read for meaning. Reading skills transfer across all curriculum areas.

In Key Stage 1, pupils become confident readers by focusing on the Read Write Inc. programme which is delivered comprehensively. In Key Stage 2, learners focus on comprehension skills such as inferring and summarising and practise these skills through questioning.
Our aims:

The measure of success will be our pupils developing as lifelong learners and confident, responsible individuals who contribute positively to society. We will strive for excellence in all aspects of our work.

This means:

Valuing all pupils and staff as individuals, celebrating diversity and promoting equality, living our lives according to our Mission Statement.
Enabling every child to succeed as an independent, enthusiastic and confident learner.
Building an inspirational, inclusive, learning environment, raising attainment and progress for all pupils and realising potential. Preparing them for the advancing technological world we live in.
Developing a dedicated, skilled staff; working with commitment to a common purpose- a high quality education for all pupils.
Ensuring lessons and learning experiences are of the highest quality for every pupil and assessment is used to make learning and teaching highly effective and help everyone understand how to improve.
Establishing strong relationships with parents and the wider community with effective communication.

Our Vision for Writing

At St Aidan’s Catholic Primary Academy School, our vision for writing is to foster a love of language and literature through the use of quality texts so that we can inspire, excite and engage our children. Through effective modelling, we believe this would enable our children to become confident, capable writers who will develop a love for writing. They will have an understanding of audience and purpose and investigate how word choice impacts on the reader. They will be given opportunities to write creatively and reflect on their own and others’ writing through paired talk and collaborative learning.
Our aims:

The measure of success will be our pupils developing as lifelong learners and confident, responsible individuals who contribute positively to society. We will strive for excellence in all aspects of our work.

This means:

Valuing all pupils and staff as individuals, celebrating diversity and promoting equality, living our lives according to our Mission Statement.
Enabling every child to succeed as an independent, enthusiastic and confident learner.
Building an inspirational, inclusive, learning environment, raising attainment and progress for all pupils and realising potential. Preparing them for the advancing technological world we live in.
Developing a dedicated, skilled staff; working with commitment to a common purpose- a high quality education for all pupils.
Ensuring lessons and learning experiences are of the highest quality for every pupil and assessment is used to make learning and teaching highly effective and help everyone understand how to improve.
Establishing strong relationships with parents and the wider community with effective communication.