We are passionate about encouraging our students to have a love of books and reading as we feel this has huge benefits both educationally, as a skill for life, and emotionally, developing skills of empathy, promoting a wider world view and fostering an understanding of different perspectives. We value reading as an enriching activity, which can make a profound difference to our students’ lives. As well as this, we appreciate that regular reading is linked to a developing vocabulary and improved skills in writing and that both of these skills are vital to success in all curriculum areas and life beyond school.