Reading and Literacy
At The Featherstone Academy, we are committed to developing our students into inquisitive and thoughtful readers. As such, we make literacy a core priority in KS3. We have high-aspirations for all of our students and aim to help them to develop a love of reading during their time with us.
In addition to our core English curriculum, we offer the following opportunities to support and sustain your child’s reading progress.
Literacy Intervention
As part of our Accelerated Reader programme, we identify students who need extra literacy and reading support. Students receive weekly support sessions, during their library lesson, which runs for a half-term. We identify these students using their termly reading test. Students are supported to develop independent reading skills including, comprehension, decoding and inference. Use the button below to access the Accelerated Reader website.
We also run a phonics based intervention called Rapid Plus for students who require extra support.
World Book Day
We celebrate World Book Day every year. This year, we celebrated on Thursday 3 March. This year, we shared our love of reading through a range of activities. Every lesson, staff shared the book they are currently reading, prompting discussions about reading across the curriculum; students took part in a “guess the teacher by their favourite book” quiz in form-time, and prizes were given out all day to our Star Readers of the year in KS3.
