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English

Reading

Intent

At Staynor Hall, Reading is used to initiate, engage and inspire the young  minds of children to develop a love  and thirst for reading, and to understand the world we live in by Reading a variety of genres. We believe that reading is key to academic success and we encourage the children to become lifelong readers.

Implementation

  • The National Curriculum for English and Early Learning Goals  provide the long term planning within school. 
  • Core texts are selected to support cross curricular topics where appropriate
  • All classes have an ethos where reading for pleasure is encouraged. 
  • In EYFS and KS1, books are matched to the phonic phase
  • Guided reading sessions are delivered daily
  • Daily phonics sessions are delivered in EYFS and KS1
  • Children identified as needing to make rapid progress with reading are listened to by an adult daily.
  • Children have a home reading record in which they are encouraged to read at least three times weekly. 
  • Children from Y2-Y6 have a Reading Journal  which they use to respond to texts read during reading sessions.
  • Reading skills, using the content domains, are taught alongside the texts and genres to deepen understanding. 
  • Children will develop their fluency within the sessions and throughout the week
  • All children are read to, by an adult, a minimum of 3 times daily to develop intonation, a love of reading and see how expression and punctuation is used. 
  • Children are given opportunities to develop speaking and listening through listening to quality texts read to them and through the use of dialogic teaching (from KS2)

Impact

  • Children’s Reading Records, Reading Journals, annotations, class notes will show evidence of the children reading a variety of genres. 
  • Children will use a range of strategies for decoding words
  • Children will, wherever possible, make at least expected progress in their reading. 
  • Parents and carers will have a good understanding of how they can help, support and celebrate reading at home.

 

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Writing

Intent

Writing at Staynor Hall should be engaging and inspiring for all children. Through the quality teaching of planning, sharing ideas, recording and editing, we aim to equip all children with the tools they need to achieve. Children will be taught a rich vocabulary, gain a secure understanding of grammar and be given the skills to spell. It is every teacher’s goal to create writers who can think and organise their ideas independently, present their work with pride and show resilience when refining their work to ensure it has a clear purpose and to meet the needs of a specific audience.

Implementation

  • The long term planning across school is built from the National Curriculum for English and Early Learning Goals
  • Spellings are taught according to the rules and words in the English National Curriculum
  • Cross curricular topics, in phases, are used to inform medium term planning for writing
  • Every child will be given opportunities to explore a range of genres and taught how to plan, write and edit for these
  • All classes have a daily writing, spelling or grammar lesson
  • Writing lessons enable children to explore genre specific grammar, sentence structure and vocabulary for a purpose
  • Writing opportunities will be given across the wider curriculum for all children

Impact

  • Children’s writing books will show opportunities to write for a range of purposes
  • Children’s current targets will be clearly visible in their writing books
  • Editing will be clearly shown in green coloured pen or pencil 
  • Where writing has been independent, it will be marked with a gold star and easily located
  • Children have an understanding of the ‘why’ of writing and are equipped with the opportunity to become writers of the future

Our writing curriculum is designed to allow pupils to develop the firm foundations of grammar and composition in order to attain high quality outcomes.

Most of our writing units are contextualised within our school topics allowing the children to use subject specific vocabulary and grammar to meet the needs of the purpose. 

Aims 

  • Develop a love of writing and begin to craft stories to become an author.
  • Encourage accurate use of composition (grammar and vocabulary
  • Provide purposeful writing experiences