English
Speaking, Listening & Responding
We equip our children and enable them to communicate effectively in all situations. Through Assessment for Learning strategies, children are taught how to structure their thoughts and ideas and express them in all areas of English. Opportunities are provided for peer talk, group talk and class discussions and debates.
Writing
This core subject is the key to accessing all other areas of the curriculum. Writing Children are taught to write for different purposes. These include: Report Explanations, Play-scripts, Recounts, Persuasion, Poems & Stories. In all of these types of writing, children are challenged to consider audiences, style, grammar, punctuation, organisation and structure. Children are expected…
For more information see: Teaching of Writing
Reading
We provide access to a wide range of stimulating reading materials and work in partnership with parents/carers to encourage a love of reading in our children. Pupils are taught to read using a combination of approaches which include both whole word recognition and phonics. Our Read Write Inc programme is successfully improving reading standards from Y1 to Y4. Every class teacher ensures that each child follows a structured programme of reading development, which is designed to be challenging and to enlarge each child’s reading horizon.
For more information see: Teaching of Reading
