Curriculum Intent

At St. Anne's, our School English curriculum is intended to:

• Ensure teachers develop pupils' reading, writing, spoken language and vocabulary development across the curriculum in all subjects.
• Ensure all pupils are taught all programmes of study from the national curriculum.
• Be delivered through a planned sequence of learning to ensure pupils make strong progress and are ready for their next stage of learning.
• Be taught explicitly, as well as across the curriculum. e.g. through cross-curricular writing opportunities.

Reading

Reading is the cornerstone of the English Curriculum at St. Anne's.

Our school actively promotes and celebrates a love of reading, e.g. through book corners, our school library and daily class stories.  Accelerated Reader is used to identify and broad range of suitable, high quality texts for pupils, and to track their progress.

The English curriculum overview features a selection of high quality texts for each class, per half term.  These texts are shared and taught to pupils explicitly, in English and Class Reading lessons as well as being used to support cross-curricular learning.

Phonics is systematically taught to pupils in EYFS and KS1 as well as identified pupils in KS2.

Writing

Pupils should develop the skills to write for a range of purposes across the curriculum (with a clear awareness of audiences) developing accuracy in spelling, grammar and punctuation.  They should learn to write in a range of genres including narratives, reports, explanations, persuasion, discussions and poetry.

Spoken Language and Vocabulary Development

Fluency in the English Language is an essential foundation for success in all subjects and it is therefore important to embed oracy throughout the whole curriculum.  On a daily basis, pupils should communicate with peers and adults clearly, respectfully and appropriately in a range of situations, using Standard English and coherent sentences.  Appropriate and challenging vocabulary is taught and used across the curriculum.