English
At Pelham, we want all pupils to:
- Foster a lifelong love of reading.
- Through their reading, have the opportunity to explore new ideas, visit new places, meet new characters and develop a better understanding of other cultures.
- Read for pleasure and with fluency.
- Be confident, fluent and competent readers.
- Build up their vocabulary so giving them the word power they need to become successful speakers and writers as well as confident readers.
- Develop a love of language and a rich vocabulary.
- See themselves as 'real writers' from the beginning, able to produce meaningful and useful work in a variety of different situations.
- Embed their writing skills across the curriculum.
- Communicate effectively in writing, and enjoy being able to express themselves in this way.
We will do this by:
- Following the 'Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised' phonics scheme of work.
- Exploring a variety of different books in our Guided Reading and English sessions.
- Sharing a class reader daily.
- Visiting the school library every week.
- Modelling writing through the use of WAGOLLs (What A Good One Looks Like) and whole class shared writing.
- Dedicating lesson time to punctuation and grammar.
- Using the Spelling Shed scheme of work.
- Implementing different teaching strategies such as oracy, drama, immersion, peer and self-evaluation.
- Ensuring that children have purposeful opportunities to write for identified audiences
- Undertaking the drafting and editing process.
- Delivering units of fiction, non-fiction and poetry each term through inspiring stimuli including text, film and imagery.
- Teaching handwriting from letter formation to cursive script.
- Celebrating writing through Pelham's Pulitzer Prize for Progress.
Curriculum Guidance
Click on the link below for an overview of the English Curriculum.
Click on any of the links below for English Curriculum guides:
A Writer at Pelham - Skills progression through the year groups
A Reader at Pelham - Skills progression through the year groups
See reference to the National Curriculum subject guidance:
Click on the link below to access parent guidance for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised: