We want our children to leave St Andrew’s as confident readers and to enjoy reading. To be able to access reading for several different purposes, to delight in non-fiction, be surrounded in interesting texts and to immerse themselves in inspiring stories. 

At St Andrew’s School we teach children to read in a variety of ways – Shared Reading, Guided Reading (also called group reading), Individual Reading and in Phonics sessions daily.  

As a school we follow the Little Wandle programme for reading which gives children the opportunity to read a phonetically appropriate book for their level every day.  The children read the book from Monday- Wednesday in a group reading setting and cover three strands to reading- decoding, prosody, and comprehension. The children then take the book home to read from Wednesday to Friday to develop their fluency.