PIES Badge Based Curriculum
Understanding and gaining meaning from written texts. Reading helps children access information, explore ideas, develop knowledge and enjoy stories.
🏅 PIES Summary Badge
Area: Reading
Badge: Reading Summary Badge
Purpose of This Badge
This Summary Badge provides an opportunity to celebrate everything your child has explored, practised and developed within the Reading area.
By looking back over completed badges, you can recognise progress, identify strengths and celebrate achievements that may otherwise go unnoticed.
This badge is designed to help you appreciate how far your child has come while looking forward to future growth and development.
Completed Badges Review
✅ Print Awareness
✅ Phonemic Awareness
✅ Phonics
✅ Vocabulary Development
✅ Text Structure Awareness
✅ Listening Skills
✅ Reading Fluency
✅ Comprehension – Literal Understanding
✅ Comprehension – Inferential and Evaluative
✅ Critical Thinking Skills
✅ Reading for Pleasure
✅ Sharing and Discussing Reading
Consider revisiting completed Evidence Records, Journey Journal entries, projects, discussions and experiences that contributed to each badge.
Looking Back
Use the completed badges, Evidence Records and Journey Journal entries to reflect on your child's development.
Consider:
How has your child's confidence with reading changed over time?
Which reading experiences generated the most interest or enjoyment?
What reading skills appear to have developed most strongly?
How has your child responded to increasingly challenging texts?
Which books, stories or reading activities were particularly memorable?
How has reading supported learning in other areas of life?
There are no right or wrong answers.
The purpose of this reflection is to help you recognise growth that may not always be obvious when viewed day by day.
Progress Through the PIES Stages
Reflect on your child's current stage.
🌱 Early Years (0–4)
Children often begin developing awareness of books, print, sounds and spoken language while enjoying stories, songs and shared reading experiences.
🔍 Discovery Years (5–7)
Children often develop early reading skills, begin decoding words, build vocabulary and gain growing confidence when engaging with books and stories.
🚀 Exploration Years (8–11)
Children often read more fluently, develop deeper comprehension and begin discussing ideas, messages and meanings found within texts.
🌟 Independence Years (12–15)
Young people often become increasingly independent readers, capable of evaluating texts, considering different perspectives and reading for both learning and enjoyment.
🎓 Young Adult Years (16–18)
Young adults often use reading confidently across academic, personal and practical contexts while continuing to develop critical thinking and lifelong reading habits.
Consider how your child is developing within their current stage and whether they are demonstrating increasing confidence, independence and capability.
Knowledge Developed
Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to develop knowledge of:
How print, words and texts communicate meaning
Sound-letter relationships and decoding strategies
Vocabulary and language used in different contexts
How different texts are organised and structured
How authors communicate ideas, information and messages
These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.
Skills Practised
Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to practise:
Reading and decoding words
Developing reading fluency
Understanding and interpreting texts
Discussing and sharing responses to reading
Thinking critically about information and ideas
These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.
Understanding Gained
Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to develop understanding of:
That reading helps people learn, communicate and explore new ideas
How different texts serve different purposes
That meaning can be both directly stated and implied
How reading supports learning across many areas of life
The value of reading for information, enjoyment and personal growth
These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.
Celebrating Achievement
Reflect on the achievements that stand out most during this area.
Consider:
🌟 What has your child achieved that makes you proud?
🌟 Which reading milestone felt particularly significant?
🌟 Which books, stories or texts created the most excitement?
🌟 When did your child demonstrate growing confidence as a reader?
🌟 Which reading skills have developed most noticeably?
🌟 What reading experience brought the greatest sense of achievement?
Achievement should never be measured through comparison with others.
Different children develop at different rates and in different ways. Progress may be seen through effort, perseverance, enjoyment, confidence, participation or growth. All of these achievements deserve recognition and celebration.
⭐ Emerging Strengths
Throughout this area, your child may have demonstrated particular strengths.
Consider:
Which skills appear most naturally?
Which activities were completed with enthusiasm?
Which experiences were repeatedly chosen?
Which achievements stand out most?
Which areas showed the greatest confidence?
Which experiences generated curiosity or excitement?
Which skills would your child happily practise again?
These observations may help identify future interests, talents and areas for further exploration.
Remember that strengths do not need to be exceptional to be valuable. Small interests often grow into lifelong passions when they are recognised and nurtured.
Learning Summary
Using your completed Evidence Records, write a summary of your child's development within this area.
Example:
Over the past year, my child has developed increasing confidence and independence as a reader. They have strengthened their understanding of sounds, words and text structures while building reading fluency and comprehension skills. They have shown growing curiosity about books and stories, participated enthusiastically in reading discussions and demonstrated an improved ability to think critically about what they read. Most importantly, they have developed greater confidence in engaging with texts and using reading as a tool for learning, enjoyment and personal growth.
Looking Ahead
Consider what you would like to explore next year.
You might think about:
new interests
new experiences
further challenges
developing confidence
increasing independence
You might also consider:
Exploring new genres, authors or text types
Encouraging more independent reading choices
Developing deeper analysis and discussion of texts
Remember that development is a journey rather than a destination.
The aim is not to achieve perfection, but to continue providing meaningful opportunities for growth, enjoyment and discovery.
Parent Reassurance
Every child develops differently. This Summary Badge is an opportunity to celebrate progress, not perfection.
By reflecting on your child's experiences and achievements, you are creating a valuable record of their educational journey and recognising learning that has taken place throughout everyday life.
The goal is not to compare your child to others. The goal is to recognise, record and celebrate growth.