During this academic year, this section of the website is a celebration of where reading can take you. Inspired by a range of novels and the lives of the characters that live within them, we invite you to open the covers and explore the worlds you find inside. Click on the images, explore the resources and enjoy everything we offer at Brannel School.

Why is Literacy so important?

Lacking good literacy skills holds a person back at every stage of their life and evidence shows that having good literacy is a doorway to social mobility. Without vital literacy skills, pupils will struggle to be successful at school as literacy is fundamental to learning. Moreover, as an adult they will struggle to apply for jobs, fill out forms, read instructions and support the learning of their own child. Therefore, ensuring all of our pupils leave school with essential literacy skills is an academy priority. Our whole staff team take a lead in driving literacy initiatives forward and in supporting our students to develop strategies that ensure success.

Intentions

As well as developing literacy skills, we aim to foster a love of reading. When a child reads for pleasure, talks about reading or does an activity linked to reading, it can lead to improved health and wellbeing as well as increased empathy, creativity and communication skills. There are further academic benefits, such as improved critical thinking, concentration, general knowledge and ability to understand curriculum texts. To promote reading for pleasure and for learning, we support students with book knowledge and strategies to support reading comprehension and inference skills. Additionally, each week, tutors deliver our ‘Read Aloud’ tutor reading programme.

Reading lists and suggestions by year group

There are some amazing books available for people of all ages, whatever their interests. The biggest problem can be deciding on the right one. These reading lists, updated every month, are a good place to start.

Click on the year group below to access the list.