We develop happy and curious learners who read confidently and fluently and seek to acquire knowledge independently. We enable children to access, understand and begin to manage information both at school and in the wider community. We help our children to develop a lifelong enjoyment of reading, taking genuine pleasure from what they read, with a view to this continuing into their lives and successes beyond their primary school journey. Our relationship with reading extends deep within our school community and we are proud to be a ‘Blokes on Board’ school where we encourage male role models within our local community to read with children to raise the profile of reading amongst our boys.

We aim to ignite a curiosity for reading and provide our children with the reading skills they need to access all areas of the curriculum. At Grange, children progress from learning to read, to reading to learn, enabling them to access a curriculum rich in literary works that expands their knowledge of the world. Throughout their school career, children are taught to interrogate texts that are rich in vocabulary, drawing on our Literary heritage. We strive to enable children to understand the meaning of what they read and what is read to them. We also provide the children with regular opportunities to make responses to what they read and justify those responses, in order to deepen their understanding and make links between learning and prior experiences.

We utilise every opportunity to celebrate and promote a love of reading at Grange. Children are given regular opportunities to enrich their reading experiences through visits to the school library, role play, the imagination station, author visits, university workshops and other experiential activities. Reading happens everywhere at Grange, the school has a number of outdoor pockets which have been developed as reading areas for the children to use independently from sitting in a forest to on a throne, we believe this is important to embed both their reading skills and their reading enjoyment.