Reading for Pleasure

At St Leonards We Love Reading

Reading for pleasure is at the heart of everything we do at St Leonards Primary School and runs intrinsically through our curriculum and every element of school life

We believe that developing a love of reading will stay with our pupil’s for life and make them passionate, interested and well-rounded individuals who develop a life-long love of everything books and reading related.

Reading allows you to "go into your own world, and no one can take it away" (Y2 pupil).

We encourage sustained, voluntary reading through:

• adults reading regularly, including in class or from time
• informal book talk, including recommendations from peers and adults
• encouraging library use, including the local public library 
• providing time to read
• sociable reading environments, reading together and sharing books.