Reading For Pleasure
At St Michael's we believe that reading is not just about learning the mechanics of decoding and doing comprehensions, it is about fostering a love for reading. That is why we are proud to be a Reading for Pleasure school. In 2022 we first took part in the Open University Reading for Pleasure programme which helped us to understand the importance of reading for enjoyment and became the starting point for many activities and projects. Since then, we have invested heavily in contemporary fiction for all age groups and built book nooks around school for children to have easy access to these texts. Each year teachers choose a contemporary author to promote within school and we have created St Michael's author of the year awards which celebrates these authors. As the children become more engaged with these authors, we have been lucky enough to have some send in personal messages to the children. We know that the impact from our initiatives has had a massive impact on the culture of reading at school and therefore we keep Reading for Pleasure as one of our priorities for all children, through yearly author of the year awards, daily story time and updating our book nooks with the latest books regularly.
One of our author of the year nominees - A M Dassu - sent a video in for the children to watch explaining all about her wonderful books!
Each class has a daily Reading for Pleasure class story which is displayed on the classroom door.
Some of our old students really embraced reading for pleasure, here are some of their top picks.
