English

English

Our approach

We follow the award-winning Ready Steady Write from Literacy Counts to develop confident, independent and successful writers with high aspirations. Our writing curriculum is carefully designed to support all children to master the necessary skills and write for a clear audience and purpose. Through the use of high-quality, vocabulary-rich texts, we provide exciting and meaningful reasons to write. Children are immersed in literature and taught to craft their writing with precision, using a range of pedagogical approaches, including sentence accuracy, modelled writing and shared writing, as well as regular opportunities for editing.

Vehicle Texts

Throughout the year, our English learning is built around a number of high-quality texts. Where possible, these have been linked to other subjects in order to deepen knowledge across the wider curriculum. 

We use each text to create opportunities to:

• Develop grammar and punctuation knowledge and understanding to use and apply across the wider curriculum, through sentence accuracy sessions;

• Explore the writing structure and features of different genres, identifying the purpose and audience;

• Plan and write an initial piece of writing with a clear context and purpose before evaluating the effectiveness of writing by editing and redrafting.

Useful websites:

• Grammar Monster
• Grammar, punctuation and spelling

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