Reading and Writing
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English plays a key role in pupils’ social, emotional, cultural and spiritual development. We teach our pupils to speak and write fluently, encouraging them to communicate their ideas and emotions.
Through reading and listening others can communicate to them, enabling our pupils to become informed confident members of society. Our aim as a trust is to introduce our children to our rich and varied literary heritage, help them to become fluent and confident readers and to move on to the next stage of their education with the key skills they need.
Phonics
We teach Phonics using the DfE validated "Supersonic Phonic Friends" scheme. Find out more here:
Supersonic Phonic Friends Parent Workshop
Below you will also find links to videos which demonstrate the correct pronunciation for each sound your child will learn. There videos are organised into phases. If you are unsure which phase your child is currently working within, please speak to you child’s class teacher.
Phase 2 pronunciation - https://vimeo.com/753929025/5eaa45c0aa
Phase 3 pronunciation - https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f
Phase 5 pronunciation - https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0
Once children have become proficient in Phonics, we teach reading to build fluency. We encourage reading for pleasure, use our school library and read a range of high-quality texts to our classes.
Writing
We follow the "Ready Steady Write" scheme for writing. This has a clear progression of grammar knowledge and skills and writing outcomes which build on each other through the teaching sequence.
We teach handwriting through the Nelson scheme. Children have daily lessons throughout Key Stage One.
