Writing

Our INTENT is to promote high standards of communication, language, and literacy by developing children’s ability to speak, listen, read, and write for a wide range of purposes. We want the children to communicate their ideas, views, and feelings as early writers, scaffolded by their exposure to a wide range of high-quality texts. We want to develop children’s love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. This, accompanied by our thorough approach to the teaching of phonics and reading comprehension skills, develops children’s confidence and enthusiasm to become critical and reflective readers. This, in turn, encourages and enables them to express themselves creatively and imaginatively as they become enthusiastic writers of their own stories and poems, as well as non-fiction texts. 

Reading

Our INTENT is to develop children’s love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. This, accompanied by our thorough approach to the teaching of phonics and reading comprehension skills, develops children’s confidence and enthusiasm to become fluent, independent readers. As part of this, by the end of KS1, children should be able to fluently read, discuss, and infer meaning from a range of texts. In the EYFS, we are working towards developing core skills to enable children to achieve our curriculum ambition which is to read, listen to, create, or retell a story to a group using words, pictures, and writing. 

To find out more about our English curriculum, please click on the link below.