English

English

English Intent Statement

At St. Leonard’s, our intent is to instil a love and passion for reading and writing in every child. We want children to flourish by giving them access to a rich English curriculum based on high quality texts. Our aim is to give the children the opportunities to write across a range of genres and for different audiences and purposes, and to read a variety of books from different authors and topics. In our school, English is to be the foundation for every subject in our curriculum, and the skills that children develop in their English lessons are to be transferred across the whole curriculum.

This year, we are working on the following areas:

Ensuring that the implementation of the new SSP (Systematic Synthetic Phonics) programme is effective.
To create a new school library.
To ensure effective teaching and learning of reading in KS2 through whole class guided reading.

If you would like any more information about how English is taught and assessed in our school, please don't hesitate to contact me using the contact details below.

English Co-ordinator: Laura Cooke

l.cooke@st-leonards-wigginton.staffs.sch.uk

National Curriculum for English

Early Years Development Matters (pages 1 and 4 for the English sections)

Development Matters Early Years.pdf

Long Term Planning

Policies

Assessment Criteria

Phonics information

Little Wandle for Parents This website contains lots of useful information and videos to help you support your child at home in learning to read with phonics.