SCHOOL POLICY MANUAL-2024-2025

For children to fulfil their poten�al in reading, we seek as much parental support as possible and our aim, with this policy, is to demonstrate how school and home can work together to ameliorate students’ wri�ng skills. The staff assess atainment in reading every term to update the student Target Tracker, using evalua�ons made on their planning and guided reading sessions, writen assessments of comprehension and independent learning the children have produced – either writen or verbal. In the Secondary School, one lesson per week is dedicated to teaching, Reading and Thinking strategies and students are exposed to various genres. The FIVE Strategies for Reading approach is employed. Students analyse different text types to iden�fy the h idden meanings and complex inference from the text. These skills are further enhanced during the scheduled library lessons using Reading Logs. Reading skills are tracked using specific ‘I can’ statement for each text types. Teachers administer assessments every two weeks and consolidate the progress for each skill or text types each month. This tracking is even integrated with wri�ng lessons so that students retrieve, analyse and develop the passages to extended wri�ng forms. All reading lessons reflect deduc�on, decoding and inference and analyzing the language strategies based on different Text Types. Students are exposed to current and real - life situa�ons through various online ar�cles and newspaper reports; they iden�fy unstated assump�ons, biases, and points of views and show how they undermine the argument the author is making during their Literature lessons.

Read and understood: Vice Principal:

Reviewed and updated: October 2024

Principal Signature:

Head of Primary:

Date of next review: November 2025

Head of Secondary:

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Al Diyafah High School-Reviewed policies- November 2024

AT&L24-2025