English

Writing

Reading

Our writing is based on two guiding principles; teaching sequences that focus on inspiring the children and sentence stacking. With modelling at the heart of them, sentence stacking lessons are broken into bite-sized chunks and taught under a structured framework. Teachers prepare children for writing by modelling ideas, grammar or techniques of writing.

The key aspects of our writing are to build pupils’ confidence with sentence structure.

Widens the repertoire of writing options for pupils.

Pupils gain an understanding of the ‘whole’ piece that they are writing.

Organisation of their ideas and cohesion between them is strengthened.

Reading is a major part of children’s education and we put a huge emphasis on this at Reedness. Our reading curriculum compromises of:

Whole Class Reading – a targeted group approach, ensuring all individuals are able to access reading.

Super 7 – A list of 7 books that each class focuses on every year.

Class text – A book that is linked to the history or geography topic.

Reading for pleasure – All childrne are given specific books linked to their year group and ability. These books are designed to be read at home by parents to develop a love of reading.

Library – A dedicated library space within school. This has been developed with help from our PTFA.

Reading nooks – Each classroom has a ready nook that children can visit at any time to read their favourite books.

Spelling

Phonics

Our spelling curriculum is an integrated system that links spelling lessons that teach children about spelling patterns and short, sharp activities that look at techniques to remember and memorise spellings.

All of the concepts, activities and tasks within the books have been designed to increase ‘stickability’ and retention of vocabulary. The system is built on strong phonic foundations and includes a range of deep exploratory investigations, alongside short-burst ‘chunked’ revision activities.

At Reedness Primary School we use Little Wandle as our phonics programme. During the Foundation stage and Key Stage 1 phonics will be taught using their systematic approach.

The children are given daily phonics sessions in our dedicated and bespoke phonics room. Each child will be given a reading book that is linked to the sound that they are currently working on.

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