Phonics and Early Reading Lead – Miss M. Allen
Reading is incredibly important and is a focus even before children start with us: we enrol each child to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on pre-nursery home visits where families receive a free book each month until the age of 5. Reading is continued to be promoted in EYFS with regular ‘Booknics’ where parents are encouraged to come into school and share a picnic and a book with their child, and parents’ phonics workshops are also regularly held in school by the Local Authority where parents can take materials home with them.