Our home learning programme is for all students to read 4 times a week to support the reading programmes and to encourage your child to read. Below is an article explaining the benefits:

If a student reads 20 minutes a day at home, they will hear 1.8 million words per year. They will have read for 851 hours by year 5 and on formal tests, they will likely score better than 90% of their peers.

The compelling data on the  benefits of encouraging your child to read found it helps develop language.

From when a child is born reading out loud is a positive influence. As your child grows, daily reading will help the brain make connections between the written and spoken word, widening vocabulary in the process.

Reading to your child also builds their vocabulary and spelling knowledge.  Reading helps the brain development

 Reading is about taking the to connect to personal experiences. 

Through daily reading, children are exposed to an outside  world.  It expands and opens the minds and creates the potential developing ideas.  It helps also strengthen family relationships when reading as a family,  from flipping through picture books or just reading in the same room .

 It is important that you child joins the local library and can access a variety of reading materials.