‘Reading Routes’ is a trust-wide Delta initiative for all of Key Stage 3. Each term students are introduced to a new route which corresponds with a genre, for example crime and mystery or comedy. Students are encouraged to read six books from the genre to complete the route. After they have read each book, they complete a quiz which focuses on the book they have read.  This initiative aims to encourage reading for pleasure and a love of reading.    

Oracy 

Oracy is a key focus across the Academy, and we aim to develop students’ speaking and listening skills, confidence, and ability to express ideas. Oracy tasks are embedded across tutor time activities and curriculum areas. Students are encouraged to respond using full sentences across the curriculum in both written and oral responses 

Teachers will: 

-model good oracy 

-challenge poor oracy 

-provide students with the language necessary for a high-level response 

-provide students with sentence starters to scaffold their responses, and display word walls to offer key subject vocabulary that our students can use to articulate their ideas.