The document outlines Mid Calder Primary School's reading journey and initiatives to raise attainment in literacy. It discusses providing career-long professional learning for teachers focused on reading and spelling. New resources, activities, and digital tools were purchased and implemented to support skills development, assessments, and application of learning. Regular meetings used data to track strategies and their impact, and profiling engaged students in discussions about their progress from ages 3 to 18. The goal was to increase enjoyment of reading and make it a high priority across the school through high-quality learning experiences.

3. Mid Calder
Primary
School Our Reading
Journey …

4. Priory 2:
To raise attainment and ensure equity in
literacy and English through improved
learning and teaching of reading and
spelling.

6. Career long professional learning opportunities with a clear focus on reading
and spelling:
- Focus on the structure of a reading lesson
- Developing higher order questioning
- Developing problem-solving and application of learning
- Using digital learning to support skills development
- Developing assessments linked with benchmarks
- Sharing practice across the school
- Opportunities for moderation
- CLPL opportunities from Jolly Phonics; Single Steps Learning – promoting
reading skills; Early level oracy skills.

7. • New progression pathways
• Embedding reading skills
• Targeted support
• New resources purchased
• IDL – to allow for application of skills and knowledge
• Development of digital literacy skills
• Rotations to support new learning and simmering
activities
• First Minster’s Reading Challenge
• Junior Leadership Team – Bookworms – Developing the
library
• Author visits
• Developed new reading area in the Nursery

9. • Regular attainment and achievement meetings using a range of
assessment data
- Strategies and impact
- Triangulated by speaking with pupil focus groups

10. Profiling means that children will be engaged in regular,
on-going discussions with all staff about their progress.
This should be a continuous process for all learners from 3
to 18.

18. • Open afternoons with a focus on reading
• Reading activities in weekly homework
• School blog
• Purple Mash P1-7 & Sumdog P1-7
• Profiling Tool
• Sending jotters home
• P6-7 Didbook targets
• Nursery Online Journals
• Nursery using Sway to share learning

19. • Enjoyment of reading
• Change of mindsets
• Reading high profile across school
• High quality pupil dialogue about
learning in reading
• More opportunities to apply skills
– digital learning; interdisciplinary
learning; skills for learning life and
work
• Parents reporting their confidence
to support learning in reading

22. Workshops