At Hannah More we follow a novel approach. This means that in each year group teachers use complete, high quality language rich picture books and novels to teach English. This allows our pupil to deepen their understanding of a text and provides meaningful contexts to develop pupil’s reading and writing.

Reading has a high profile at Hannah More. We know that it is the key to effective learning. Pupils are encouraged to appreciate books, to read independently, to make good progress and to take immense pleasure in reading. We aim to foster reading skills which will remain with the pupils for life. Scarborough’s Reading Rope gives a visual representation of what happens when we read skilfully.  Our curriculum systematically teaches our pupils word recognition and language comprehension, from decoding in the first week of reception, to active and skilled readers by the end of year 6.