Earlsfield Primary School in Wandsworth Is a Local Authority-maintained school that provides primary education from reception, and year 1 to year 6 (KS1 - KS2). At Earlsfield, there are also Breakfast and After School Clubs (Wraparound Care), and a large Nursery offering 24 full-time and 56 part-time places.
Earlsfield Primary School selected ReadingWise Comprehension in 2020, adding ReadingWise Decoding in 2021. Both interventions remain in place as of 2024, and the school expects to continue working with us to support learners into the future.
In March 2023 Earlsfield had an Ofsted inspection, achieving an Outstanding grade.
School report Inspection of an outstanding school which uses ReadingWise: Earlsfield Primary School
At ReadingWise, we are proud to champion the schools we work with. Here are a few of the highlights from the report:
“Pupils are proud of their school and excited to share their learning and experiences. Leaders provide an ambitious curriculum that ensures all pupils achieve well. Learning is carefully planned, and pupils are highly motivated to learn.”
“Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. This begins in early years where children learn to follow routines exceptionally well. Leaders promote the school’s values, which are a central part of pupils’ school life, very positively. Leaders deal seriously with any rare incidents of bullying. Pupils are taught about positive relationships. They care about their peers.”
What does the Ofsted report say about reading intervention?
“Leaders have placed a high priority on reading. Leaders provide additional support for pupils who may fall behind in their reading. This helps pupils to read with fluency and confidence. Teachers give pupil librarians the responsibility to organise the playground and school libraries During breaktimes, pupils enjoy reading books. Leaders ensure pupils have access to a wide range of high-quality texts.”
As this shows:
- Children who are struggling can catch up and reading will improve when additional support is provided, such as the ReadingWise programmes.
- This additional support contributes to higher reading and literacy attainment levels and confidence, and that has a positive impact across pupils entire learning experience, enjoyment of reading, and confidence.
How ReadingWise supports reading and literacy at Earlsfield Primary School
ReadingWise covers all areas of reading – decoding, comprehension, and vocabulary. This provides leaders, teachers, TAs, and SENDcos with a coherent, unified approach to improving literacy.
To support literacy and reading across the school, Earlsfield benefits from access to the following modules:
Zip : An adaptive learning programme for children aged 5 - 7 (Reception and Y1) learning to decode.
- It uses adaptive learning via algorithms to understand how secure a pupil is with a letter/ word-sound correspondence.
- Zip has proven to be particularly beneficial in schools with EAL pupils where it can also be used to support the school’s home engagement strategy.
Delivery: 5-10-minute sessions a day – at school or home. Supervised by one trained member of staff.
Decoding : So much more than just another phonics programme for Years 2-11. Our decoding module, for primaries and secondaries, develops deep independence in learners, empowers them, and consistently improves reading ages by over 9 months in just 20 hours.
Decoding is a powerful literacy intervention module.
- It starts by assessing a learner’s reading age, then creating a carefully structured, personalised learning journey.
- Learners work through blends, progress through common endings, words and sentences using a variety of innovative approaches to unlock reading.
- Decoding starts with letter sound recognition and progresses through every four-syllable word in the first 3 Harry Potters.
Delivery: 20-25 minute sessions 3-5 times a week. Supervised by 1 trained TA working with 10 learners.
Comprehension : A powerful, engaging, and fun literacy intervention module to develop the quest for meaning behind a narrative for Years 5 - 9. Its content, structure, and design deliver age-appropriate sessions for primary and secondary schools.
ReadingWise Comprehension empowers learners through key strategies.
- Strategies include questioning, summarising, and thinking ahead to transform reluctant readers into enthusiastic, book-hungry participants.
- Work through structured sessions, with supporting lesson plans, developing 4 ‘Mega Skills’ – the core strategies for improving understanding and building a reader’s self-esteem.
Delivery: 10 week programme, 45-minute sessions run twice a week in groups of 10, with one trained member of staff.
Vocab : A special vocabulary programme for learners aged 6 - 16 (Years 2-11), for primaries and secondaries.
Vocab aims to reinforce words that you are bringing to life in the classroom. You are providing context - we are helping embed the words in learners' long-term memories.
- Our system carefully scaffolds your word lists and delivers sequenced, spaced-learning to interrupt the forgetting curve.
- The system knows when your learners have mastered a word and moves it into a revision cycle.
- Your learners will interact with word classes, definitions, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms and images; as their confidence increases, the scaffolding decreases.
Delivery: 10 minute sessions 3-5 times a week - at home, at school, or a mix of both. Evidence suggests shorter, more regular sessions are better than longer, irregular sessions.
Training for schools and teachers
Staff at every level, including teachers, TAs, literacy leads, and SEND specialists, were trained in Zip, Vocab, Comprehension, and Decoding, the four modules deployed to raise reading levels across this outstanding primary school.
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