Intent

• To allow children to make connections across their learning and the curriculum

• To provide a systematic approach to teaching vocabulary to all children

• To plan succinctly for knowledge, skills and understanding across the English curriculum.

• To offer children the ability to verbalise their learning, through questions asked that allow them to demonstrate their understanding.

• For all children to foster a love of reading.

• To embed a phonics approach to reading throughout KS1 (and KS2 as required).

Implementation

• To enable children to build up their skills to independent writing over a longer time to ensure quality and understanding.

• To plan for the knowledge, skills and understanding that the children will gain from each English unit of work so that links are made between reading, GPS and writing.

• To plan vocabulary that the children will be taught so that all children’s vocabulary is being extended.

• Teaching supports links across the curriculum so that English teaching is not seen as just stand alone, but a key to learning the whole curriculum.

Impact

• Greater connections being made for children to see how English links to the rest of the curriculum.

• Vocabulary is planned for in the writing process, displayed in the classroom environment and explicit vocabulary lessons are taught in reading.

• Children are able to verbalise their learning to demonstrate their understanding in English.

• Children to gain a deep understanding of age-appropriate texts.

What our children think about English:

I really like English because it helps you to improve your reading and your grammar.

I really like English because we get to write stories and bring characters of our own to life.

I like writing stories of lots of different types.

I like English because no matter what the theme of the piece of writing you are doing, you can always express yourself with anything you find at the back of your brain. In my opinion, English is a piece of art put into words.

I like English because I like reading stories and using them as an influence to write my own.