English
Subject Leader - Miss. C Dylak
Writing
Our writing curriculum is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all children. We follow the award-winning Ready Steady Write from Literacy Counts to develop confident, independent and successful writers with high aspirations. Our writing curriculum is research-informed and impact-proven, carefully designed to support all children to master the foundational skills and write for a clear audience and purpose. Through the use of high-quality, vocabulary-rich texts, we provide exciting and meaningful reasons to write. Children are immersed in literature and taught to craft their writing with precision, using a range of pedagogical approaches, including sentence accuracy, modelled writing and shared writing, as well as regular opportunities for editing. We value spoken language as a foundation for writing. Through structured talk, drama and vocabulary exploration, children learn how to organise and express their ideas clearly before writing them down. Our aim is for every child – regardless of need – to write fluently and take pride in their work. We want our pupils to leave primary school as enthusiastic writers, ready for the next stage of their education.
Writing Progression Document
writing progression document.pdf
Curriculum Coverage Document
writing curruiculum coverage.pdf
Reading
Intent
At St Matthew's, our intent in reading is to:
- Provide children with the opportunity to listen to, speak about and read a wide range of text types and respond to them critically.
- Enable children to express themselves creatively and imaginatively as they become enthusiastic and critical readers of stories, poetry and drama, as well as of non-fiction and media texts.
- Deliver to children the knowledge, skills and understanding of the spoken language across a range of situations.
- Give context to pupils’ learning and let them understand the value of English to them now, and in their futures.
- Ensure reading is embedded across the curriculum.
Implementation
Our reading curriculum is built on being evidence-informed delivered using high-quality teaching strategies.
- EYFS and KS1 learn to read through the RWI scheme.
- Y1-Y6 use Complete Comprehension as our reading scheme. All reading skills are taught progressively, children are exposed to high-quality texts and develop speaking and listening. Repeated reading and prosody are also made a focus.
- Children develop reading fluency through our use of Accelerated Reader. Pupil’s change their book weekly, complete quizzes and assess their ZPD for accurate pitching.
- Reading lessons extend pupils’ vocabulary by explicitly teaching new words, providing repeated exposure and opportunities to use them across context.
- Verbal feedback and evidence-informed pedagogy is used in reading lessons. Scaffolding and modelling is promoted.
Impact
We believe that every child should leave St Matthew’s with:
- The reading skills they need to access their next steps in life.
- Have been exposed to a wide range of literature which promotes capital culture.
- Have made at least good progress from their starting points on entry to our school.
- A love and enthusiasm for all kinds of literature.