At St Martin’s , we believe that the greatest gift is a passion for reading. If we are going to succeed in ‘developing the whole child’ then it is essential that our children learn to read and see the value of reading in real life.

We aim to hear every child read every day, either as part of their daily reading lessons, or through focused one to one reading sessions.

Children begin their reading journey In Nursery, where they are introduced to sounds and participate in pre-reading activities which develop phonological awareness. When they are ready, children are introduced to letter sounds and begin to develop oral segmenting and blending skills.