Our Vision

It is our vision that every child leaves us able to read at their chronological age, with a love for reading, and the ability to write and speak with eloquence, accuracy and confidence.

At The Hart School, we aim to foster a love of reading to develop students who love to read, and are confident and fluent when reading a range of different types of texts. They are articulate and eloquent in their speaking and writing.​

Our literacy strategy comprises of four key and inextricably linked strands:

• Promote a love of reading for pleasure​ across the whole school
• Develop students’ reading skills across a range of text types and styles through the embedding of reading within the academic curriculum
• Develop the cultural capital of students through the explicit teaching of vocabulary
• Develop the writing skills of students and supporting them with extended pieces of writing across all the different curriculum areas.

Why is Reading Important?

1. It exercises your brain.
2. It provides knowledge and information about the wider world, supporting students’ development and contribution to society.
3. It reduces stress and improves students’ moods.
4. It improves focus and concentration.
5. It helps to develop creativity.
6. It enriches your language, vocabulary and ability to write expressively.
7. It increases your ability to empathise with others.
8. It helps you to reflect.
9. It is the best form of entertainment….and it is free!

Good readers will deploy several strategies:

• Activate prior knowledge about a subject
• Read with fluency and confidence
• Read with expression
• Predict
• Question
• Clarify
• Summarise

Through the reading we do with our students at The Hart School, whether as part of the Register and Read programme or as part of the academic curriculum, we seek to develop these reading strategies with our students.