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  • Reading and Literacy


    At Jamiatul Ummah School, we recognise the importance of reading in promoting effective literacy skills. Reading widely and frequently helps develop confidence, knowledge and skills which in turn has a positive impact in all subjects and learning areas.

    In addition to promoting literacy in different subject areas, the school has developed several initiaves to support literacy growth:

    • Yearly Reading List
    • Dedicated DEAR time
    • Particpating in Young Writer's Award Competition
    • Particpating in Young Muslim Writer's Award Competition

    Yearly reading List

    Each pupil is provided a yearly reading list which consists of 10 fiction books carefully chosen to match age and challenge (The Guardian Newspaper). The programme is managed through Skoolwork (online learning platform). Parents are required to confirm completion of reading.

    Year 7 Reading List Year 8 Reading List Year 9 Reading List
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thomson
    The Island at the End of Everything - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    The Wolves of Willoughby - Chase Joan Aiken
    Peter Pan - JM Barrie
    The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
    The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley
    Boy and Going Solo - Roald Dahl
    The Diary of a Young - Girl Anne Frank
    The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner
    Madam Doubtfire - Anne Fine
    Welcome to Nowhere - Elizabeth Laird
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    The Coral Island - RM Ballantyne
    Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
    The Day of the Triffids- -John Wyndham
    The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
    Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
    A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Maladapted - by Richard Kurti
    A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
    Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley
    Catch-22 - by Joseph Heller
    The Catcher on the Rye - by JD Salinger
    The Count of Monte Cristo - by Alexander Dumas
    Dracula - by Bram Stoker
    Empire of the Sun - by JG Ballard
    Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
    Shakespeare: The World as a Stage - by Bill Bryson
    The Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemingway

    DEAR Time

    One lesson a week is dedicated to whole class reading in school (Drop-Everything-And-Read). The lesson is rotated weekly to avoid disruption to subject learning. Pupils will read a selection of books carefully chosen to engage and enthuse a love for reading.

    Particpation in Young Writer's Award

    Jamiatul Ummah frequently particpates in the Young Writer's Award held annualy to further promote reading and writing. In 2018, one of our pupils won the final in the Young Muslim Writer's Award Competition. The pupil has now gone on to authoring his own books.

  • Teachers promote literacy and numeracy well. One of the school’s current initiatives is getting pupils to read more widely. This is proving successful and pupils’ reading skills and appreciation of different types of writing, from poetry to fiction are improving well.

    - Ofsted 2018

    Policies and Documents


    Literacy Plan 21/22

    Y7 Reading List

    Y8 Reading List

    Y9 Reading List

     

     

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