Dedicated Tutor Reading Programme

We have a clear and diverse Dedicated Tutor Time Reading Programme at All saints. We seek to develop the reading culture within our school community and encourage reading for pleasure. We want all our students to develop an appreciation of language and the craft of writing. The programme is designed to ensure all students have access to high quality texts and experience a range of authors, genres and styles that they may not normally encounter within their own personal reading. The programme aims to expose students to this rich variety of literature not only to promote the enjoyment of reading, but also gain 'cultural capital' and to help shape their character. 

The Dedicated Tutor Reading Time (DRT) Programme is led by form tutors who read each text aloud modelling fluent and expressive reading whilst highlighting difficult language to close the vocabulary gap and expose our students to high level words (vocabulary not normally encountered in everyday speech). This programme seeks to place reading at the heart of the curriculum and ethos of the school, where we are working together to be exceptional in all that we do, so that that we "may have life, and have it to the full". (John 10:10)

The Dedicated Tutor Time Reading Programme runs three afternoons a week, for 30 minutes. Tutors will read this text aloud while students follow in their own book. Tutors focus on pace, pause, intonation and expression. Once a tutor group has finished a text, they will be allocated a new one.