"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 focusing particularly upon Reading.  Presentation, Spelling, and writing will also be focused upon. Presentation and Reading will continue to be praised and rewarded in our Friday Praise Assembly. 

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 2 are using 'The Twits' by Roald Dahl for their English based learning this term. Your child's class page will also be updated to show what the reading for pleasure text is in each class. This will also be displayed on your child's classroom door and is consistent across school. 

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 teacher.

Experiences

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 "Beauty and The Beast and 'The Railway Children'), and purchase the time of a visiting author to work with children. This year will be welcoming Sue Perks back into school as our Oral Storyteller. Sue will work with each class across school to help promote a love of reading!

This will also be done through 'World Book Day' where our children really enjoy dressing up as their favourite book character for the day. We will also be holding 2 book fairs this year. Our Spring Term book fair was our most successful to date where we raised over £1000 for the first time. This helped school to secure £460 worth of free books for your children to use in school! We will be holding our second book fair in early July. Details will be released closer to the date. 

For provision within English for each year group, please see overview below. If you have any questions regarding your child's English provision, please do not hesitate contacting their class teacher using the class email system.