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Learning at Crawshaw Academy
Students’ enjoyment of reading has been developed through the “Crawshaw Book Club” initiative.
The aims of Crawshaw Book Club are to:
Book Club runs four times per fortnight and is extract based. Session one introduces our students to the blurb and the new vocabulary; session two gives students the opportunity to re-visit the vocabulary and to watch the associated film trailer; session three allows students time to read through and discuss the extract; session four is an opportunity for students to discuss a key theme from the book.
After each fortnightly cycle, the books can be borrowed from the school library so that the whole stories can be read and enjoyed.
To foster the love of reading for pleasure, a wide range of enrichment opportunities are open to our students. These include:
One hour Reading lessons are scheduled fortnightly for our KS3 students (in Year Nine, these are part of the English curriculum).
The intention of the Reading lesson is to foster in our students a wider interest in reading. Reading then empowers them to become more articulate, confident speakers and writers. Another aim of the Reading lesson is to provide students with the opportunity to practise their reciprocal reading skills so that they are more able to access challenging texts across the curriculum.
In each lesson, students:
Alongside our curriculum and literacy toolkit, we provide appropriate interventions to strengthen our student’s learning and ensuring extra support is given where required.
Across the curriculum, we ensure that academic words and phrases are explicitly taught so that students are able to use them confidently in a variety of contexts.
Strategies that a teacher may use to embed a word include:
