Our inspiring and aspirational English curriculum (based on the National Curriculum) is meticulously planned to identify the knowledge and skills that our readers and writers will aquire.

Learners will regularly revisit key concepts to enable them to make connections to deepen their understanding and commit learning to long term memory.

Learners recite our number one goal ‘Every Child A Reader’ with a shared understanding that reading is the key to all learning.

Our learning journey inspires our children to develop a love of reading and to become fluent, confident readers. Through modelled, choral and echo reading, learners develop their confidence to read with fluency and accuracy. Readers use the 6 P’s (power, passion, punctuation, pace, pause, pitch) when reading aloud.

Learners develop confidence to explore their imagination through the reading of high quality texts. Readers develop their skills to read for purpose, enhancing their subject knowledge across the curriculum. Learners are motivated to read progressively challenging books by a range of authors, chosen from our extremely inviting class libraries. Readers use appropriate intonation and control the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.

Skillful and confident readers apply a range of strategies to find the meaning of texts. Learners develop secure understanding of reading domains and how to comprehend using the skill of retrieval, inference and prediction.

Spoken language underpins the development of reading and writing. Our language rich curriculum enables learners to develop their speaking and listening skills. Everlasting experiences in our early years lay the fundamental foundations for future reading success.

Learners use discussion to ensure their thinking and ideas are clear before bringing their writing to life through performance.

Learners are fully immersed in a language rich curriculum which enhances reading and writing skills. Learners seek to develop their knowledge and vocabulary which is enhanced through a wide range of reading across the curriculum. The explicit and regular practise of spellings involves segmenting spoken words into phonemes and then representing phonemes by graphemes. Learners apply an increasingly complex knowledge of word and spelling structure and use accurate standard English in spoken and written language. Through explicit teaching, learners use and understand accurate grammatical terminology and concepts, applying these correctly in their own writing.

Writers develop curiosity and spark their imagination to write, through the reading of inspirational texts. Writers develop transcription and composition competence through the draft, edit, upstage and publish process to writing. Our writers communicate and organise their ideas. They seek to develop their awareness of audience, purpose and context to support their writing. Learners are motivated towards earning their handwriting pen, demonstrating the highest expectations of perfect presentation. Writers present their written work through performance as they bring their writing to life. Feedback is shared with peers, reflecting on successes and improvements that can be made.

Our readers demonstrate a lifelong love of reading. They demonstrate a passion of reading for pleasure and purpose with a developing knowledge of rich vocabulary. Skillful readers apply a range of strategies to understand the meaning of texts. Our writers use inspiration from a wide range of authors and write for a purpose and specific audience across a variety of genres. Adventurous choices of vocabulary are used in well structured writing which has been adapted to ensure correct grammatical structure, spellings and perfect presentation. Our performers read with fluency and perform with power and passion.