English

Miss Dougan - English Leader and Miss Lynch - Reading Leader
Text overview
Story time texts throughout the year - EYFS
Story time texts throughout the year - Year 1 2022-2023
Story time texts throughout the year - Year 2 2022-2023
Long Term Plans
Year 1- writing long term plan Year 2- writing long term plan
Year 3- writing long term plan Year 4- writing long term plan
Year 5- writing long term plan Year 6- writing long term plan
Reading
Reading is at the heart of our curriculum. Children learn to read through encountering challenging texts, which form the basis of each half term’s English learning from Reception to Year 6.
We follow the Read Write Inc. (RWI) programme to get children off to a flying start with their reading and writing. RWI is a structured programme, which integrates phonics, comprehension, writing, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and handwriting. It helps us to create a consistent approach across our school as we all work together to ensure our children are confident readers and writers. Children begin learning phonics from when they start in Reception, and all our staff members are fully trained. Whilst children are in the early stages of their reading, we teach children to decode, building their word recognition through phonics sessions, and we support children to develop a love of reading and build their language comprehension through whole class sharing of stories. As children progress through school, these begin to intertwine and children engage with a weekly comprehension lesson in place of RWI sessions.
RWI sessions in action
Whole class texts are carefully selected to include a range of authors, text types and genres.
A selection of our class reading corners (more pictures in our gallery below)