GLF Schools

GLF Schools

GLF Schools was founded in 2012 in order to enable the federation of Glyn School (an academy in 2011) and Danetree Junior School. Together, we began our journey to become a MAT of more than 1000 talented staff working with over 10,000 children in 40 schools across 5 regions in southern England.

Our Schools

Banbury Region

Banstead Region

Berkshire & Hampshire Region

Caterham Region

Crawley Region

Didcot Region

Epsom Region

London Boroughs

Redhill Region

Sunbury & Camberley Region

Reading

Reading 1

Reading 2At Forge Wood Primary School, our children will be competent readers, able to understand the author's intent. They will be able to read and re-read high quality texts, chosen specifically to expand and deepen their vocabulary. As the children progress through their reading journey, they will begin to learn other skills such as inference and scanning and skimming. They will be able to discuss information and link to real life experiences. We believe reading is the key to opportunities offered to children in later life and our aim is for all children at Forge Wood  to make outstanding progress from their starting point.

We recognise the importance of reading across the curriculum and prioritise the teaching of explicit comprehension skills. As a school, we follow the CUSP Reading Curriculum from Year 1 to Year 6. These lessons are completed daily (in addition to daily teacher led story time and Read Write Inc phonics from Reception to Year 2). These lessons use high quality texts and extracts, of varying genres, to teach comprehension skills, with the teacher reading the text as a class reader, for pleasure. Through this curriculum, each child will have had a suite of core texts that will form their depth study for the academic year. These texts have been mapped carefully to ensure a breadth of experiences, authors, texts and themes is addressed; furthermore they are chosen to act as windows and mirrors, embodying a breadth of diversity and culture.

Every whole class reading lesson will incorporate an opportunity for children to practise their reading fluency. We use strategies such as, echo reading, choral reading, speed reading, text marking and jump in.

To ensure inclusive practice for all children is embedded, we implement the following:

  • Children are often sat in mixed ability pairs and encouraged to discuss answers
  • Adult support where needed
  • Have pre-read the texts or in situations where longer texts are overwhelming, extracts of this same text are provided
  • Teacher models with high quality answers