English – Writing
KS1
Aims:
Through the teaching of English, children develop the essential literacy skills needed to prepare them for life. The skills taught in English ensure that children can successfully access all other areas of the curriculum with growing independence and confidence to equip them for their future. We will ensure our children are successful and confident learners. Our English lessons develop pupils’ spoken language, reading, writing and grammar and vocabulary skills.
Through the teaching of English, children develop the essential literacy skills needed to prepare them for life. The skills taught in English ensure that children can successfully access all other areas of the curriculum with growing independence and confidence to equip them for their future. We will ensure our children are successful and confident learners. Our English lessons develop pupils’ spoken language, reading, writing and grammar and vocabulary skills.
Intent
At Ernesford Grange, we intend for children to become enthusiastic and motivated readers. We want to develop children’s confidence in reading a wide variety of genres and text types and for children to have the skills to decode words in order to be able to read fluently with understanding of what they have read. We seek to encourage a lifelong love of literature, an enjoyment of reading for pleasure and to use reading to provoke curiosity and thought within children.
Implementation
At Ernesford Grange, reading is taught both discretely and across the wider curriculum. Guided Reading is taught weekly and high-quality texts are chosen to read which are matched to the child’s reading level. In these sessions, fiction and non-fiction texts are read and discussed, developing the child’s ability to decode quickly, read a greater number of words by sight, understanding the sequence of events and a range of other skills based on their comprehension of the text.
Impact
By the end of KS1 the large majority of children have developed effective strategies to help them to read and decode. Most children can retrieve information, infer simple meaning and make links between texts and the different themes and genres within them. Teachers’ subject knowledge ensures that skills taught are matched to National Curriculum objectives.
At the end of each year we expect the children to have achieved Age Related Expectations for their year group. Through intervention and quality first teaching some children will have progressed further and achieved greater depth. Children working below the expected standard receive appropriate support and intervention.
At the end of each year we expect the children to have achieved Age Related Expectations for their year group. Through intervention and quality first teaching some children will have progressed further and achieved greater depth. Children working below the expected standard receive appropriate support and intervention.
Lower KS2
Aims:
The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment.
The National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
● read easily, fluently and with good understanding
● develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
● acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
● appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
● write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
● use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
● are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment.
The National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
● read easily, fluently and with good understanding
● develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
● acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
● appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
● write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
● use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
● are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
Intent
At Ernesford Grange we aspire to build an English curriculum which develops learning, and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills so that all pupils know more, remember more and understand more .To design a curriculum using Cornerstones with appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding in Speech and Language, Reading and Writing to help the children to reach and exceed their potential at Ernesford Grange Primary School and beyond. It is our intention to teach the pupils to write for a variety of purposes and audiences: clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language style as required. For pupils to develop an understanding of the rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and to acquire a wide vocabulary and to use these appropriately.
Implementation
Whilst the National Curriculum forms the foundation of our focus, we ensure sure that the children learn additional skills, knowledge and understanding and enhance our English curriculum by using the Cornerstones ILPs and KRPs: supplemented by high-quality selected texts which also form units of work.
We believe that a secure basis in literacy skills is crucial to a high quality education and will give our children the tools they need to participate fully as a member of society. These aims are embedded across our literacy lessons within the wider Cornerstones curriculum. Cornerstones provides a rigorous and well organised framework that provides many purposeful opportunities for multi-genre, and cross curricular writing. We also use a wide variety of quality texts, as outlined in the National Curriculum, and resources to motivate and inspire our children to write.
We believe that a secure basis in literacy skills is crucial to a high quality education and will give our children the tools they need to participate fully as a member of society. These aims are embedded across our literacy lessons within the wider Cornerstones curriculum. Cornerstones provides a rigorous and well organised framework that provides many purposeful opportunities for multi-genre, and cross curricular writing. We also use a wide variety of quality texts, as outlined in the National Curriculum, and resources to motivate and inspire our children to write.
Impact
The impact on our children is clear: progress, sustained learning, and transferrable skills. With the implementation of the writing journey being well established and taught thoroughly in both key stages, children are becoming more confident writers and by the time they begin in Upper Key Stage 2, most genres of writing are familiar to them, and the teaching can begin to focus on creativity, writer’s craft, sustained writing and manipulation of grammar and punctuation skills. At the end of Year 4, the majority of pupils will have achieved the Age Related Expectations with a number exceeding these.
Upper KS2
Aims:
The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment.
The National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
● read easily, fluently and with good understanding
● develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
● acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
● appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
● write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
● use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
● are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment.
The National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
● read easily, fluently and with good understanding
● develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
● acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
● appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
● write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
● use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
● are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
Intent
To build an English curriculum which develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills so that all pupils know more, remember more and understand more .To design a curriculum using Cornerstones with appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding in Speech and Language, Reading and Writing to help the children to reach and exceed their potential at Ernesford Grange Primary School and beyond .To design a curriculum with reading at its core across all curriculum areas. Through choosing quality texts, we intend to develop a love of reading and allow children to recognise the pleasure they can get from their reading, as well as an understanding that reading allows them to discover new knowledge, revisit prior knowledge and understand more about what they learn, fuelling their imagination for ideas to use in their work. To provide opportunities across all curricular areas for the development and application of Speaking, Listening.
Implementation
Whilst the National Curriculum forms the foundation of our focus, we ensure sure that the children learn additional skills, knowledge and understanding, and enhance our English curriculum by using the Cornerstones ILPs and KRPs: supplemented by high-quality selected texts, which also form units of work.
We use a wide variety of quality texts and resources, including an extensive library, to motivate and inspire our children to read widely in Upper Key Stage 2. Comprehension is taught through whole class reading, using the VIPERs model to re-inforce the domains: our SEND pupils supported by TAs within the classroom and in targeted intervention groups. There is an aim to develop efficiency, independence and breadth therefore, short extracts from a range of genres and classic texts as well as class readers are the basis for independent comprehension tasks. Each class teacher reads to the class on a regular basis, exposing the pupils to a variety of texts and genres.
We use a wide variety of quality texts and resources, including an extensive library, to motivate and inspire our children to read widely in Upper Key Stage 2. Comprehension is taught through whole class reading, using the VIPERs model to re-inforce the domains: our SEND pupils supported by TAs within the classroom and in targeted intervention groups. There is an aim to develop efficiency, independence and breadth therefore, short extracts from a range of genres and classic texts as well as class readers are the basis for independent comprehension tasks. Each class teacher reads to the class on a regular basis, exposing the pupils to a variety of texts and genres.
Impact
The impact on our children is clear: progress, sustained learning and transferrable skills. By the end of Key Stage 2, the majority of children read easily, fluently and with a good understanding. They have developed the habit of reading widely for pleasure and information, and are competent in the arts of speaking and listening.
At the end of the Key Stage, the majority of our children will have achieved the Age Related Expectations in the SATs, and some children will have exceeded these.
At the end of the Key Stage, the majority of our children will have achieved the Age Related Expectations in the SATs, and some children will have exceeded these.