Reading

At Northfield, we love reading. Our children enjoy a wide range of colour book banded books carefully matched to their ability and have the opportunity to choose from our extensive library too. Every child is encouraged to read at home and at school as much as possible and they love to work towards our reading challenge! After recording their reading, each child has the opportunity to move from bronze level  all  the way up to rose level. This is celebrated weekly in our special Gold assembly.

At Northfield, we teach children to not only be able to read a text fluently, but also be able to understand what they have read confidently. We do this through inference techniques. In the following attachment, you can see the teaching strategies we follow to help children with their inference skills. Your child will be familiar with these, and they will support your child when they are reading at home.

Spelling

Handwriting

At Northfield we follow a clear, easy to follow handwriting scheme. Attached are examples of joins, line guides and samples of work for you to look at.

In Years 3 and 4, the beginner handwriting guidelines are used. At first children learn to use the guidelines by writing on top. When they form all of their letters correctly, the children move on to using the guidelines under plain paper.

In Years 5 and 6, pupils use the standard guidelines to refine their handwriting style, making letters smaller and clearer.