English
Reading and writing are the foundation for all other subjects. The National Curriculum sets out distinct areas to be covered: speaking and listening skills, reading, writing, grammar and spelling.
In general, writing attainment is very high across the whole school. High quality teaching and a variety of stimuli ensure our children have the potential to become creative, enthusiastic and independent writers.
We have chosen to use Little Wandle as our preferred phonics scheme. Children are tested on their phonic understanding at the end of Year 1, but the implementation of phonic skills continues throughout the school.
The Accelerated Reader programme is embedded across the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculum aimed at getting children excited about books; their achievements are then celebrated in their class assemblies. Children are encouraged to read at school and at home with graded reading books and a weekly choice from the school library.
Miss Rivers
Reading, Phonics & Writing Subject Leader
Mrs Bilner
Reading & Phonics Subject Leader
Miss Jones
Phonics Subject Leader
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English in the News
Roving Reporters
Woodpecker's roving reporters went back in time to 1969 - the day after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon. We wrote newspaper reports of the historic event, then made News Round style video recordings which we shared with the class! One small step for Neil...
Anti – Bullying Week
The children in Kingfishers Class having been focusing on friendship this week as it was Anti - Bullying week. The children created friendship recipes to make the perfect friend. The children thought about the different qualities a perfect friend would have. The...
Who Let the Gods Out?
To link in with our Ancient Greek topic, our whole class reading and writing for this half term was based on the book 'Who Let the Gods Out?' by May Evans; we also linked part of our computing topic to the book. We spent half of our 'computing time' studying 'online...
Performance Poetry
This term Woodpeckers learned about kennings, an ancient form of poetry originating from the time of the Vikings! We learned and rehearsed a poem along with actions and performed it to our classmates. Kennings are riddles - can you guess what our poem was about?...
The Sun – Books for School
We didn't collect enough Book for Schools tokens but The Sun newspaper has acknowledged us as a small school and we have been lucky enough to receive a lovely box of new books worth £600. The children have been enjoying reading the new books. Thank you again for...
World Book Day
On Thursday 5th March we celebrated 'World Book Day'. The children started the day with an assembly all about the event. The children listened to a story called ‘Look Up’. The book touched on the fact that whilst many of us are ‘ plugged in’ to technology we are often...