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English
Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing, Spelling and Handwriting make up the English Curriculum. Where appropriate, literacy teaching is linked to work in other areas of the curriculum.
We encourage children to take part in a range of activities to increase their ability to listen carefully and express themselves clearly. The activities include story time, drama and discussion.
Writing begins with lots of pencil control activities which lead to letter patterns and develops into “joined” handwriting. Children are taught to form letters correctly and to develop a high personal standard of presentation. Children will be given the opportunity to write for a variety of purposes. This will include their own stories and poems, descriptive accounts and other forms of factual writing. They are taught spelling, grammar and punctuation. They are also to taught to plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing.
We aim to encourage children to become successful and enthusiastic readers. We teach a range of strategies to enable the children to get at the meaning of a text. We use a range of books and materials for the teaching of reading. This includes fiction, non-fiction and a wide variety of reading schemes. Children are taught basic decoding and spelling skills and to develop their knowledge of context and grammar. Information-seeking skills are taught in conjunction with topic work.
Children are encouraged to borrow books from our school library and to use the library for their own research. A book fair is held at school each term
We take great care to match the teaching and learning to the needs of each individual whatever their ability level. Children are set regular targets for achievement and these are closely monitored. We are proud of our levels of attainment and particularly of our ‘value added’ scores for all children.
