English
From September 2014 the new National Curriculum for English became Statutory.
"The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written word, and to develop their love of literature..." 2014 National Curriculum in England.
We follow this framework in all classes in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
This Year in school we will be focussing particularly upon Reading. Presentation, Spelling, and writing will also be focussed upon.
We will also be covering a range of genres by using a quality text as a basis, your class teacher will publish the current text on the class page for your information. For example, Year 3 are using "Charlotte's Web" by E B White and Year 6 are using "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stephenson.
If you would like to know how to support your child further with the Curriculum requirements, please do not hesitate to speak to your child's classteacher.
From March 2016, we will be following a spelling scheme called "No Nonsense Spelling". This will support the delivery of teaching spelling families and patterns dictated for your child's year group from the National Curriculum.
To support reading progress we use Bug Club across school. Children have their own password and user name for this so it can be used at home (see additional information). Click on the log below to take you to the login page!
We also use "Cracking Comprehension" to further develop comprehension skills.
To support delivery of statutory grammar requirements classes follow "Writing: The Whole School Approach" by Dr Danny Doyle, this is supplemented by resources written by Alan Peat.
In addition to classroom activities, we also increase experiences of the children by hosting a visiting theatre twice a year (for a pantomime and a classic story, this year it will be "The Little Princess"), and purchase the time of a visiting author to work with children. These are often linked to our World Book Day activities which are done annually, along with our provision of a Scholastic Book fair.
For provision within English for each year group, please see overview below.
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Poetry To learn by heart… |
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On the 3rd March we had an author called Stephen Davies in school to talk to us about writing, he was very inspiring!
World Book Day Celebrations, March 2016!
Book Fair Competiton Winners February 2016! Each won a £5 voucher to spend at the Book Fair!
