English

Vision

We aim to deliver a high quality English curriculum that gives children the best possible opportunities to become confident and successful readers and writers with a deep love and understanding of the English language. Using carefully selected texts, we ensure that children are exposed to and use a wide range of vocabulary. They will see themselves as writers and experiment within their own work whilst developing a secure understanding of the technical components of spelling, handwriting, punctuation and grammar.

Phonics

Phonics is taught daily in the Early Years Unit and Key Stage 1 and through discrete lessons in Key Stage 2, as needed. We use the Junior Learning validated scheme to teach our Phonics programme. The sessions are carefully planned to be fun, engaging and challenging. We have invested in a range of quality resources including the interactive online resource to support teaching. The children have many opportunities to apply their leanring through child initiated and adult directed activities.

Assessment is ongoing and used to inform next steps and planning. Using the assessments we can plan for rapid intervention where necessary to ensure no child is left behind. Any children entering Key Stage 2 who are still experiencing difficulties in reading and/or writing because they have missed or misunderstood a phase of phonics teacher recieve support from their class teacher and teaching assistants trained in phonics interventions.